faster than you can blink

Throughout this blogging process a bizarre new world has opened up to me. It is dynamic and full of mystery, intriguing yet at the same time indicative of controversy. It is not a phenomenon that is without cause for concern. The new media environment has an anomalous effect on humanity. The machine entity; the inert thing is somehow given life through virtual processing and technological malleability. Entropy seems to be becoming an inhabitable space; a new frontier. Being a cyborg is in a way inescapable because today our lives are so deeply interpenetrated with technology that it has become part of our human function that is in turn part of our cyborg system function. Does this mean we are losing physical presence and therefore suffering a depletion of autonomy and primary agency? It is a subtle subject at the moment but one that can not be ignored as we are faced with a rate of change that seems to happen faster than we can blink. In a photographic sense everything today can be automated. Skill can be debased down to simply pushing one button. Susan Sontag, an author and critic of photography said this: "Ours is a culture of excess, of over-production; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life- it's sheer overcrowdedness- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties." But we have machines to replace our normal sense things that make hyper sense. The world we live in is changing on a multitude of levels. So stay sharp. Stay alert. Stay alive. Thanks for reading if you did.