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Diane Davis
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Is there a way to activate a sense of solidarity among singularities—a way to say "we"—that doesn't simultaneously give the other the squeeze, that doesn't feed this craving for communion, in the name of which any number of "we"s have committed the most horrific atrocities in recorded history?
Writing and reading are functions of this pre-originary sociality; they are expositions not of who one is (identity) but of the fact that "we" are (community).
Teletechnologies, including tele-vision, launch an irrevocable assault on tropological home-security systems, tripping metaphysical alarms and touching off panicked scrambles to (re)secure the homestead. TV—inasmuch as it challenges phantasms of immanence, immediacy, and interiority—is anxiety's secret agent, prompting the spooky suspicion that the "real life" it would "displace" was never real, never reality, anyway, never home.
Internet communications applications effectively up television's ante, breaking down the barrier of spaciality and blurring two supposedly distinct modes of existence: dwelling and traveling. Requiring a kind of hypermobility that nonetheless stays in place.
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