The Burst of the Latent: Politics of mobile connectivity

In virtual reality the body is doomed to immobility, though it is connected to the wonderful world of the screen but it only means a static connectivity, an imprisonment of the physical body behind the screen. The advent of mobile connectivity marked a revolution in communication technology. With the new technologies of smart phones, the image has taken on a new dimension and the space changed from being an enclosed, cocooned space to the actual space of the real. The image that was latent in the virtual and trapped within the boundaries of the catatonic digital stationary of a desktop computer is now loose at large. The flux is so fast and omnipresent that the boundaries between the two entities of the virtual and the actual are blurry and inconsistent to the extent that the individual user of media augmentation cannot distinguish the difference. The latent image of the virtual exploded in the actual augmenting it to become an actual and physical space of hyperactivity and virtual flux. Manipulation of the image is becoming manipulation of life itself and thus the creation of an augmented space in the actual becomes a prerequisite.

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Hassan Choubassi

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Publication date: May 2018

Publication date (Print): May 2018

Pages: 1-8

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[1 ] Lebanese International University

Fine Arts & Design Department

Lebanese International University

Michel Abi Chahla street, Mousytbeh

Beirut-Lebanon

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVAC18.11

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Conference name: Politics of the Machines - Art and After

Conference acronym: EVA Copenhagen

Conference number: 7

Conference location: Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Conference date: 15 - 17 May 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Digital arts and culture

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[1] R Barthes 1978 Image-Music-Text Hill and Wang New York

[2] W BenjaminH Arendt 1999 Illuminations Pimlico, London

[3] nd Dondrue Adhd in Adults [WWW Document] StudyMode URL http://www.studymode.com/essays/Adhd-In-Adults-593855.html 6 24 14

[4] D. Goldblatt 2011 Ex-Offenders at the Scene of Crime

[5] M Horkheimer T.W. Adorno 2007 Dialectic of Enlightenment 1st ed Stanford University Press

[6] B Khbeiz 2003 Globalization and the Manufacture of Transient Events The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan Beirut

[7] J Lacan 2001 Ecrits: A Selection Routledge London

[8] J LacanJ.-A Miller more, & 0 1998 The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis W. W. Norton & Company New York etc

[9] R Mroue 2011 The pixilated revolution

[10] Orlan n.d. The Reincarnation of Saint-Orlan

[11] M Poster 2001 Jean Baudrillard: selected writings Stanford University Press, Stanford

[12] J Toufic 2014 Vampires: An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film 1st edition Station Hill Press Barrytown, N.Y.: New York N.Y

[13] P Virilio 2005 The information bomb Verso, London; New York

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