The word 'digital' refers to both digital data, as used in
computers, and also the digits, fingers, of the hand, and thus by
extension touch, which has long been a trope for connectivity,
community, and participation. Thus, in its drive towards greater
connectivity, our culture is digital in more than one sense, in
that it increasingly encourages such contact (from the Latin,
'com', together, and 'tangere', to touch). But at the same time
such technologies always involve separation, gap and distance.
Community Without Community in Digital Culture suggests that
networks always involve this other aspect of touch, separation,
distance and gap, as a necessary concomitant of our fundamental
technicity. Thus, against the prevailing presumptions that new
technologies involve greater contact, relationality and community,
this book proposes that they exemplify the gap inherent in touch,
the 'inconceivable, small, 'infinitesimal difference'' that
separates us from each other in time and space. In this such
technologies are part of the history of the death of God, the loss
of an overarching metaphysical framework which would bind us
together in some form of relation or communion. This can be
understood in terms of contingency, which has the same root as
contact.
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