Immersion within digital environments is a common experience for the inhabitants of contemporary technologically advanced societies:Familiarity with these environments and the technologies that make them possible has become so immediate that their unquestioned use is making such technologies ever more“transparent”.The aim of this contribution is to question the obviousness of our relationship with digital technologies and environments,so as to address two specific(and correlated)questions:First,where—i.e.,in what dimension—must we locate those spaces that we define as“digital”?And,secondly,where do we locate ourselves—as subjects-users(and producers)of such environments—when we“move”within them?These questions evoke the urgency of an inquiry into the new forms and modes of subjectivation in the digital context.I will address the topic by:(1)reconstructing the relation between the(first literary)concept of cyberspace and the notion of digital environment;and(2)proposing a certain philosophical understanding of digital environments,based on:(i)a phenomenological frame and(ii)a certain notion of interface as“thirdspace”.
展开▼
