Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 39 minutes ago
The astounding omnipresence of the virtual in contemporary consciousness is radically restructuring our psychology, changing our societies and culture, and having profound effects on who we are, how we behave with one another, and on the kind of world we are inhabiting. The speed and instantaneousness of digital communication radically unsettles both time and space. “Real time” and “virtual space” are new categories in our existence that introduce dramatic transformations in our form of life. Changing our very understanding of knowledge and ignorance, of subjectivity and objectivity, digital technology is reforming our needs and interests, affecting all areas of human experience.
The astounding omnipresence of the virtual in contemporary consciousness is radically restructuring our psychology, changing our societies and culture, and having profound effects on who we are, how we behave with one another, and on the kind of world we are inhabiting. The speed and instantaneousness of digital communication radically unsettles both time and space. “Real time” and “virtual space” are new categories in our existence that introduce dramatic transformations in our form of life. Changing our very understanding of knowledge and ignorance, of subjectivity and objectivity, digital technology is reforming our needs and interests, affecting all areas of human experience.
