The Role of Intimacy in the Evolution of
Technology
In this
article, Georges Bataille’s notion of intimacy will be re-interpreted to show
that it has a role to play in the evolution of technology. The specifically
human form of intimacy can be experienced through the successful adoption of
technological devices that have the qualities necessary to fit in and work out
in our life context. If they manage to become part of our life, then we
experience them as projections of our psychophysical personality, and, as such,
they escape our positing, objectifying consciousness. Intimacy can be seen as
the organizing principle that shapes the evolution of technology towards an
ideal end that promises at least an approximation to the absolute intimacy that
is unique to the gods.
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