The effervescence of their connections unconsciously pearls new ways of being-there and of inhabiting the world. What world is this? What place does the human being occupy in it? What about the public of yesteryear in the era of digital reproducibility of the work of art? Social networks, wearable technologies, biotechnologies, online socialities, proliferation of identities and electronic communities, the Internet of Things: the media are worlds that are less and less separate and intangible in relation to everyday life, they have become the world we inhabit, their matrix, their dream, their ultimate incarnation. The bonds that emerge from this landscape are no longer based on a rational and abstract contract, but on a series of pacts in which emotion, the dreamlike and affections appear as the new magnets of being-together. Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitch, Tinder and other platforms crystallize so many connective anities for which eroticism and death are the two polarities of the same condition, of an exuberant vitalism driven at the same time by a praise of the ephemeral and by a tragic feeling of existence.

This book contains the development of the following topics, among others:

On technomagic: electronic life
Beyond the Barbarians
Public emotion
Bewitched on the net
The becoming world of the image
Epistemology and devices
The work of art in the age of its digital reproducibility

With this book, you can discover how digital cultures transform the way we inhabit the world.