Michael Joyce: "Beyond Next Before You Once Again: Repossessing
and Renewing Electronic Culture" (22)
| "We are surely not the first but without doubt the most self-conscious age to see ourselves as living before the future. In our technologies, our cultures, our entertainments and, increasingly, the way we constitute our communities and families, we live in an anticipatory state of constant nextness."(399) |
In this chapter, Michael Joyce contemplates the "nextness" of today's technology: "What next literacy, what next community, what next perception, what next hope, what next light?" (401). He divides his poetic exploration of the above questions into six parts, each part revealing the embodied and fluid relationships among the above questions. These six parts are color, body, wood, light, air, and "Water or the Body Again."
Through this poetic analysis, the reasons behind the Joycian mantra,
"We are who we are" becomes apparent. The "book of fiber," "the book of
skin," the "book of paper and cardboard"--all literacies, regardless of
the technologies that embodies them, are shaped by the user--the body,
the place, the history.
| "We are who we are. We see our spaces in how we live our differences and we live in what we see of ourselves within their otherness." (401) |
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