To live in the turn of the twenty-first century global information society would seem somehow at the same time necessarily to inhabit technology. Technology becomes not just attached to our bodies, but, increasingly, part of our corporeality, with drugs and implants and genetic and reproductive technologies. Inhabiting connotes the home, the neighbourhood, technology international airports, Brussels, financial districts in New York and Tokyo.
Technology connotes the silicon valleys and silicon alleys.
Inhabiting is community. It is identity. It is London's Shoreditch and City, Roissy and La D fense, the Jardins in S o Paulo. Technology is modernization and hypermodernization, inhabiting the reaction to the latter from radical Islam to radical ecology. We persist in this dichotomous thinking of inhabiting on the one hand and technology on the other.