Here is where we can locate the emerging paradigm of the database, and consider its effects. After all, it was Serge Daney who reminded us that the set of movement-conventions that is cinema only took hold via the public's immobilization in theaters, arrested and held in thrall by the screen. Such a public is today an animated and tracked public. Such a body, whether in flesh or networked mode, incorporates fitness as the erasure of any threat to efficient, fast, and reliable flows. A movement constituted through patterns of repetition, enmeshed in circuits, harnessed to social and technical machines.
Movement configures as a kind of statistical articulation.
As individuals and groups are processed, the public configures as a calculus of manageable interests, opinions, patterns, and functions. A marker of speech and presence, a way in which the public is heard and made visible. They are like free-weights or the fitness calculators that interface body and machine and measure their compatibility, often resulting in the body's rates to be adjusted in accordance with prevailing fitness norms. The interface always points to such a device, as it traffics between motivations and mobilities. Through them, private and public realms, behaviors and built realities, exchange, encode, and format one another.