Phases of Electricity

Professor Derrick de Kerckhove's panel at Ars Electronica, as reported by Professor Mark Federman:

Analog	Digital	Quantum
Muscular	Cognitive	Existential
Heat, light, motion; Extension of body via electromechanical devices	Connected, emergent consciousness; Obsolescence of body as it becomes smaller relative to its extensions in digital space	Emergent beings formed via pervasive proximity (infinitely many entities packed into zero space)
Cyborg (pre-cyber); the interface boundary is ground	Cyber (post-cyborg); interface is obviously evident (moves from ground to figure), becoming ubiquitous and hence, obsolescent	Transcendent (post-cyber; i.e. no distinction in reality between cyber and physical)
Surveillance	Dataveillance	Emergent transparency (reversal of dataveillance)
Non-reality is ground effect; “on the air, man becomes no-body”	Remote control is ground effect; our digiSelves become the voodoo dolls through which we are controlled and manipulated.	Mysticism is ground effect; connection to the “higher consciousness” that exists in the plasma of simultaneous experience
Public identity; celebrity (inflection point of obsolescence of privacy; e.g. paparazzi)	Digital persona; publicy	Emergent identity(ies) as an attribute of tribal affiliation(s).

For my translation of Professor Federman's "Cultural Paradoxes of Global Village" into Farsi click here.