Matthew Causey: "The Rise of the Bio-Virtual: Non-place, Disappearance, Indistinction (Life in the Digital Kamp)"
Within the super-saturation of virtuality and technological reproductions in contemporary digital culture are established zones and terrains of indistinction and disappearance (digital kamps). These electronic environments I would nominate as examples of the bio-virtual (perhaps a post-virtual) and model the fields as a space of bio-politics par excellence. For the virtual is not simply virtual anymore as its affect within us is haptic and somatic and leads us to identify the phenomena as a taking place (within the non-place) of the (bio)virtual....
Dr Causey is Director of Trinity College Dublin's Arts Technology Research Laboratory.
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