The Cyberspace Has Invaded My Laundry Room
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I’m writing this in a very unusual, exceptional, and unprecedented space. Well, if you compare it with our daily lives before the great pandemic of 2020.
Unusual because at the same time I’m typing on my computer I’m recording the session to share it with my online students and then to post it on some social network.
This means that I have a video camera pointing to my face and a screen recording app pointing to my words.
Sounds cool except because is not. To be affected by the coronavirus you have to be in physical contact with infected persons.
But to be affected by the eyes of the internet it doesn’t matter where you are.
That’s how space has changed for me and some of us.
Physicists say time modifies space. Well, I say, video modifies space. It even creates a new space.
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I’m at home, in my new office. I’m working in the laundry room, next to the washing and dryer machines.
This is a new home for us. My family — my wife, my two daughters, and I — moved in the middle of the pandemic. We were living in an apartment. A good place if you are not there all the time.
