Chapter 18
Virtual mobility
The sign/body of pure information
To speak about mobility of necessity means speaking about space – whether the material spaces of the actual world through which we move and negotiate daily life, or, increasingly, those Web-based virtual spaces through which we feel we navigate, visit, or flow when online. It is also the case that any form of mobility or materiality that is not understood as an extension in space is very difficult to imagine or write about. In order to live, human beings need to interpret the world through and in relationship to a series of fixed and moving objects. We see the material before we see the cultural. This is reflected in the reliance on spatial metaphors to situate Web practices ...
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