diff --git a/content/shard/networked-space-and-time.md b/content/shard/networked-space-and-time.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7bc0d69 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/shard/networked-space-and-time.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ ++++ +title = "Networked space and time" +glassblowers = ["alessandroludovico.md"] ++++ + +Being embedded in of all kinds of networks, from the bureaucratic validation of out identities, civil rights and dislocation, to the private set of virtual entities which we seek/accept on social media. +Still the essential networks we are in, are the relational one, those which create a small footprint in our existence, supporting it in some respects [1]. +To have this role, they express a relevance which is validated by the space and the time they enable outside the communication platforms. +The network itself is a space and time extension and reconfiguration. The space is redefined, as it is a perceived endless global extension, reached after three decades of growth in infrastructure. In this dimension the relational space needs to be protected from the rest of induced engagement. +The time is conditioned by that space perception, by the relational activities, and by the engagement in different modalities. +We are then shaped by both, space and time perception, but the relational elements can let us define them in turn, rather than being defined by it. + +[1]: Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199256044.