Basically everything in life starts and stops and then sometimes starts again. This blog is not about me, but about the things I like to read and think about, so I will not go into that comment further. I will however tell you how this relates to the things I am writing.
Just a few days ago I was going through a book about the history of aesthetics and later tried to tell my mother my new insights. I drew up a little image that clarified my feelings about the interpretation of digital and “real”aesthetics and summarized that at this moment in time we tend to separate them. As if the digital is an entirely different world and it would be justified to use a different mindset when considering it's objects. I said out loud that the metaphysics of the digital are not at all similar to those of the ''real''. And today I read this:
"Who are we in the digital age? What does it mean for humanity to become transformed through the digital code? What are the epistemological, ontological and ethical consequences? How do human cultures become hybridized and in which way does this hybridization affect the interplay with natural processes and their interplay with the production and use of all kind of artificial products in a digital economy?"
These questions ask for a hermeneutic vision of the hybrid that culture is. A digital hermeneutics would deal with the implications of the tangible to the digital and vice-versa. We would not talk about differences, but would focus on what our current culture politcally, legally, comercially and my favorite aesthetically afford us.
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