Non-place Cyberspace

The internet has a new place in daily life. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that the internet is a new place. A non-place cyberspace. What used to be a collection of links to simple pages has grown to what feels like an infinite web of content. Images, video, text, communication systems are interconnected and searchable, reposted endlessly and commented upon ad infinitum. We have even uploaded ourselves. Hell, I'm doing that now in the own way.

I'm letting myself be tracked, but also letting myself be known, seen, and heard. Maybe in the long term this could have a negative impact on my life, on the development of myself, on my creativity. I consume so much input that I feel that I must fulfill the transaction and post my own output, even out the table. Give and take, look and make. 

Boris Groys' New Article on E-Flux

(From Sketches Snatched)

Nowadays, one hears a lot about the growing degree of surveillance, especially through the internet. But surveillance is not something external to the internet, or some specific technical use of the internet. The internet is by its essence a machine of surveillance. It divides the flow of data into small, traceable, and reversible operations, thus exposing every user to surveillance—real or possible. The internet creates a field of total visibility, accessibility, and transparency.

-Boris Groys, Art Workers: Between Utopia and the Archive