Remote

It is no longer really the real, because no imaginary envelops it anymore. It is hyperreal, produced from a radiating synthesis of combinatory models in a hyperspace without atmosphere.
– Baudrillard

The global/local nexus is yet to be mapped. Cyberspace – space of intersection – local people, big corporations: The Transnational Imaginary

This space is formed by the intersections of our microprocessors. This is what happens when we click on the icons. Think about the effects of your actions in cyberspace, the global effects of your local actions.

To travel the superhighway is to confront the screen as an interface (the screen is the site for meaning-making). The screen, as we know, is ideological. It produces generic audiences and users into specific, coded subjects – it fixes you into a position according to how you will see the images before you – you identify via counter-identification – this is me, or that is not me” –

Governance of the self and others: self-censorship online, and state censorship and restrictions. The emergence of new cultures despite such restriction and regulation. Self-governance: do you use your work/uni email for other purposes? Are you monitored online? Does it produce an addicted but paranoid user?

Hypertext: the linking of structural code to make content. A linking device that takes you from place to place. What happens when you travel through hypertext? 

Virtual: imaginary (illusion/false/fiction)
the virtual world, the space of proximity interaction where an explorer can control a representation of themselves

It is imagined, a virtual space that is a mediated network. It reproduces a new identity without a body.