The temporary shift seems to be one of the basic characterictic
of digital space. Spatial limit is becoming time limit, and spatial
passage is becoming
time passage. And the speed of this temporal becoming might be registered
in space
transgressions. The global mutation from advantaged 'spatialization' of
human perception
to its 'temporalization' could be demonstrated on the various level:
1) on the absract level we could trace how the concept of 'personal' time
which is relative to the observer who measured it, described by
Albert Einstein, becomes "a temporary autonomous zone" of Hakin Bey;
2) in the sphere of consumption we could notice disappearance of an
authentique object,
which had been replaced with the information about an object. We can
consider this process as a general behaviour mutation from consumer
patterns to user's ones.
There is an importante question rised by Umberto Eco: if the information
does play the
role of a superstructure in the contemporary society?
3) On the level of the human perception we move to a 'despatialized'
subject. (By
the way all the messages of the participants of this discussion marked not
with a certain space
- city, country, etc., but with time - dates).
The shift from so called 'real' to various of illusonary, imaginary worlds
takes
place not in the certain place but in the personal 'relative' time. It
could be illustrated by
numbers of of mass-mediatized images of the "digital reflexion". For
example,
in the television series VR 5 (started in 1995, Michael Kettelman,
director)
main character Sydney Bloom travels in her own childhood openning a path
to the uncounscious, perception's destorted perspective reverses time.
In this context the problem of disorientation in space (> We suffer from a
boundary loss) --
connected with the loss of the results of creation of the I (Moi), of human
representations
of the self and of the outside reality (Umwelt), connected with the
evolutionary
regress to psychotic relations between inner and outer spaces -- might be
compensated with
the orientation in time(s). The death drive of one moment (0/1) includes
the life drive of another
one (0/1) even if there is an image of repetiton.
Olessia Tourkina
Viktor Mazin
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