Inter-placed Mobility in the Age of “Digital Gestell”

Christopher A. Howard and Wendelin Kuepers
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Christopher A. Howard: UH - University of Hawai'i [Honolulu]
Wendelin Kuepers: CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine

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Abstract: The following article explores meanings and implications of mobile technologies and embodiment in a globally networked context. Drawing on ethnographic research on global travelers moving through Nepal and India, we focus on the role mobile technologies play in mediating perceptions and performances of place. Facilitated by contemporary media and mobility infrastructures, we suggest that mobile subjects are relationally "interplaced." By introducing this notion, we aim to illustrate how forms of virtual mobility overlap with and impact actual, corporeal experience. Following Heidegger, we also develop a concept we call "digital Gestell" (enframement). Applying Heidegger's reflection that technologies of a given historical epoch frame the way subjects approach the world, we can say that many people today are "digitally enframed." Facing this increasingly technologized Being-in-the-world, we suggest an "ethos of Gelassenheit" for a more responsive and responsible awareness of the powers technologies hold on our perceptions and actions.

Date: 2017-03
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Published in Transfers, 2017, 7 (1), pp.4-25. ⟨10.3167/TRANS.2017.070102⟩

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DOI: 10.3167/TRANS.2017.070102

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