In cultural space where the logic of the digital increasingly informs our cultural lensing, our relationships with our bodies is quickly emerging as a victim.
Rendered another artifact in the field of technical apparatus, the body disappoints.
There is no clean equivalent to Moore’s Law for the ancient technology of the body (at least that we have uncovered to date).
As a result, the evolutionary inertia of the body no longer satisfies the arc of our attention, the arc of our effort, the arc of our desired future…it is too slow, too viscous, too ostensibly static.
In the digital age, the body is not malleable enough. Not digital enough. Not avatar enough.
The logic of the digital demands that we escape from the body.
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In her book Bodies, Susie Orbach speaks to the visual reign of the digitized human body and the challenges embedded in reconciling the digital with the visceral:
A good 2,000 to 5,000 times a week, we receive images of bodies enhanced by digital manipulation. These images convey an idea of a body which does not exist in the real world. The photo shoot which produces the raw pictures of the models are carefully lit to exaggerate features prized today and then further perfected by being Photoshopped, airbrushed and stretched. It takes a large team to create the image we see on the billboards or in the magazines…
In the end, I think the near future of society will be defined in part by man’s attempt to escape his body…to attempt to transfer the inertia of Moore’s Law from the digital realm into the physical realm.
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