Miltos Manetas

Looking at the Blackberry, 2013, oil on canvas, photo by Gaetano Alfano

internet
blessed we are unconnected

text by FRANCESCO URBANO RAGAZZI

 

We are going to write this text without ever being connected to the Internet. Neither to confirm nor to deepen nor to distract. This first version will be written in pen, as we are no longer used to it.

Our calligraphy has become more difficult, and we are not even sure of being able to decrypt it. But it is not only a problem of handwriting: something in the way we write and in the way we think has changed irreversibly.

Over the past 15 years, the culture of knowledge that has characterized the origins and accompanied the evolution of our species has given way to that of research. We are followers, searchers, temporary finders. We spend most of our waking time looking…