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What brings hybridization about? Hybrid creations and creatures emerge from recombinations. The smaller, the more flexible the unit, the greater the number of recombinations. Hence the principal drivers of hybridity are the gene, the atom and the bit. Language itself is a product and a generator of hybridization. Like migration and crossbreeding, languages drive hybridization because they bring together common features from otherwise unrelated entities. As more and more objects are made available in digital form, invention rises evermore from sampling and mixing, leading to a generalized digital/material bricolage.
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If you want to see cultural hybridization in action, watch a Bollywood movie. Globalization brings new pressures on hybridization. Being at once global, continental and local, we are all global, but some of us are more global than others. The world implodes and societies remix. Under the gaze of satellites, the political face of the planet is trying to graduate from nationalism to continentalism. Most changes are lateral as we witness the repeated drama of vertical disintegration. In the mediadriven politics of the globalized economy, keeping in mind the dubious strategies of recycling old concepts to fit new situations, what is the meaning of “democracy” ?
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Do we have hybrid sensibilities? Both the robot and the cyborg are hybrids. Humans
lend their mind to the first and their body to the other in the still uneasy coupling of metal and flesh. The very technologies that support us have a tendency to sink into invisibility. The blog could be the soul of the cyborg, of somebody made up of a node and a network. As we blog our daily encounters, we publish ourselves simultaneously with our networks of like-minded persons. Differing from our shadow, our “digital persona” does not merely follow us, it precedes us, as when people “google” each other before they meet.
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New techno-cultural ecologies arise from these renewed cycles of external innovation and internal assimilation. The 1.5 billion owners of a portable phone may not yet be aware of the fact that they can now put the world in their pocket. They may not be aware either that thus equipped, they are “always on.” It is important to examine what is happening now to time and space because of what the industry calls mobility. It is the culture of the Present: all times are now on the web and in the wireless condition. It is almost as if the world itself had turned “always on.”
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