4.11.09

Overexposed.


In an era of expanding digital technologies, I wonder whether the culture of self-exposure is a function of the subject's willing abdication to the watchful eye or rather the symptom of the need, distorted or deformed as it may be, to be related to others. Has the possibility of digital exposure constrained or broadened one's self of self? "Does exposure, as we tend to think, render the self more vulnerable, posing a threat to individual autonomy, or does it provide grounds for a new kind of relatedness?"(Ewa Lajer-Burcharth. Interiors at Risk). Are we witnessing the end of interiority as we know it, or simply a change in how it is conceived-- a shift from the notion of spatial depth to the idea of surface or interface? How are we to imagine subjective autonomy in the era of cultural mobility? Should inner space be protected or shared? Do we even need depth?

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