Essai

Laisse venir et les autres

Du pouvoir des oligoptiques

Enrico Agostini Marchese

If geolocation is a central phenomenon of our contemporary era, profoundly modifying any approach to space, what are its cultural foundations? This article tries to answer this question by problematizing the technocentric vision of geolocalization as carried by Google and other private companies to explore other ways of looking at this technology. The notion of oligopticon, central to our reflection, will allow us to highlight the cultural and aesthetic side of this new spatial form that relies on the hybridization of physical and digital space. (EAM)...