Connecting demonstrates in a very real sense the ways in which human “being”, culture and technology cannot be understood separately, but as always bound up with each other. This paper explores the ways in which our culturally mediated understandings of human selfhood, materiality and community shape the development and enactment of technological connection and connectivity. Connections, both inside and outside of our bodies, involve growth, existence and functionality on the one hand whilst simultaneously impacting on the production of subjectivity on the other. Mapping bodies, movement and systems of exchange foregrounds the centrality of connection to human life. Connection is about people and meanings. Identifying the inseparable flows and networks of both developing technologies and developing selves can help to productively explore the meanings and importance of connection and connectivity. [...]

(excerpt from article by Anthony Lambert, Macquarie University)

Reconstruction 5.1 Winter 2005.