E8Z! as an expert
» What is it that makes you look for the longest route instead of the shortest? Is it an interest in slowness? Is it a desire for precision? Or is there an element of obstinacy and rebellion in it, a rebellion against the pressure of deadlines and fast living perhaps?AH: This could be considered a very paradoxical route.
Auriea is point a and Michael is point b. Thus the longest route from Auriea’s hand to Michael’s was through the Internet but perhaps this longest of routes was also the shortest.
Ours is in one way an interest in slowness because it is always our desire to take away the rush to click.
There is a bit of rebellion in the urge to connect physical spaces with digital ones. One may consider the Internet the longest route because the data must travel the globe without you but this long trip is nothing compared to that of connecting minds and ideas which one can only write about and not see or feel except through the proxy of its host language or culture.
