technology   -as language- comes from the aim of survival.   
technical development is inevitably accompanied by loss.   
technology  helps to fill, to bridge ...
... to overcome the insufficiency emerging from absence

by overcoming or shutting off the negative horizon of absence  
the technical media become technologies of care and presence 
by visualizing the absent, making it symbolically present  
the media also transform the damaging concequences of absence into pleasant ones
while overcoming distance and time  
the media also help us overcome the fear with which these inspire the psyche 

the media heals - s y m b o l i c   t r i u m p h ? ? ? - the effects of the withdrawal from existance  
raising and complicating the symbolic presence

what began with perspective _the relativization of the world by the location of the observer_
has become generalized in this electronic time
the world becomes 'observer-objective'  
the electronic world tends to become a mere interface between inner observer and objects
and as intersection between observer and objects
the technical world increasingly becomes the subject of artificial manipulations

the house, the 'oikos', the domus, the home,  
they have never been a place of security and intimacy  
the house of antiquity was not a place of rustic comfort, but on the contrary  
a place for alienation and the stake of tragedy  
intimacy is something we project on "home"  
we do not dwell and never did  
therefore our nostalgia is a side-effect of our constant nomadizing in the big city  
of our transit ports, our transfer traffic, our constant leaving and travelling on  
we are doomed to an exile in the cosmos  
an exile which reduces earth to a mere spaceship and matter to the carrier of inmaterial information

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