In/Visible Space

The Internet has altered our interaction with machines to such a degree that it has produced a new, virtual space we can inhabit. It provides a non-physical interface for all types of interaction with machines as the intermediary between individuals. As such a virtual space, the Internet has the capacity to place us in a state of alienation (since we cannot experience the our activity on the Internet in the way we experience the rest of our lives) and in a community. So the space of the Internet resembles any other postmodern space. Does the Internet imitate postmodern life, or vice versa? It is a product of the postmodern, late capitalist condition that demands new modes of interaction and production. But the ways in which life after the Internet mirror the intellectual chaos we experience online remain to be examined. Perhaps they are not yet visible enough, or perhaps they just as opaque and unintelligible as the function of the machines themselves.