The Web is a Lonely Place
by Jacqueline Winter Thomas
“The Web is a Lonely Place,” at Center for Photography, Woodstock
“In the final stage of his ‘liberation’ and emancipation through the networks, screens, and new technologies, the modern individual becomes a fractal subject, both subdivisible to infinity and indivisible, closed on himself and doomed to endless identity. In a sense, the perfect subject, the subject without other.”
– Jean Baudrillard, Impossible Exchange
Yes! Baudrillard is brilliant. This is the essence of our contemporary condition…