Roberto Simanowski

What are these times when people wander the streets like zombies with their eyes on their mobiles and the internet makes instant gratification slaves of us all? We are experiencing the end of walking and waiting, the loss of publicity and impulse control. Space and time get caught in the web of their digital relations and become strangely alien to us. We are witnessing a world in upheaval, threatening and promising at the same time and with an uncertain outcome. Would the metaverse or the social credit system be the salvation? High time to trace the symptoms of this upheaval, beyond their obvious meaning to their most secret plans.