Real Virtuality: Creating the next normal with the crutches of technology

We are blaming it on the virus. But it seems, in hindsight, as if we were anticipating this moment in time, when we could be forced to withdraw from other fellow beings. The proof is the technologies and devices we invented. On the surface, they may have seemed to be about more sociability, but it was always harbouring its invisible other, the asociability of it all.
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
Published: May 22, 2021
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Image by : ALESSANDRO SERRANO’ / AGF / UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGES

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