Dusk to Dawn: Horizons of the Digital/Post-Digital

Abstract

As digitally inflected practices and technology become further diffused and hybridised, there is a way in which it does become, in some senses, increasingly difficult to isolate or differentiate between digital and non-digital. Indeed, this paper will posit the contemporary situation as a kind of tipping point moment for the digital as a concept, one that, as a result of its many overlapping, oversaturated and seemingly ubiquitous modes of manifestation in the world, opens up a perceived need for a renewed engagement with the question of what the digital entails and for which a wedge term like postdigital might provide one such contextualising tool. In this vein, one might question why the digital is blue?

The post-digital labyrinth. Understanding post-digital diversity through CGI volumetric aesthetics

“…Heterogeneous processes that do not cohabit in the same spaces or times, but rather in diverse places, temporalities and frequencies (Cox, 2014: 74–75). ‘A useful description of the “mess” – never a conclusive explanation of the moment’ (Peperell and Punt, 2000: 4), including speculative projections and imaginative attempts to define what post-digitality may mean tomorrow (Snodgrass, 2014: 38).…”