October 29, 2011
Modernity in The Digital Age

This is just a really wild speculative rant. It’s more science-fiction than anything else, though it does describe a trend which, if it will mature, will kill modernity. 

“The Digital” can be said to provide a common medium in which we now encode (through different theoretical constructs) - or try to - all facets of reality relevant to our existence. This common “language” allows for the dissolution of the essentially modern function systems (politics, science, economy, religion, architecture, etc.). This happens gradually, different borders slowly disappearing between different disciplines as their specialized languages are superseded or made compatible by digital technologies and common articulation rules, or “grammar”.