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Metered Togetherness

Affective Drifts and Temporal Proximities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2022

Abstract

Moving beyond speculation on immediate and mediated interpretations of presence that saturate our field, we drift toward new orientations regarding presence that capture a metered togetherness: a disjuncted assembly emerging from both localized and networked logistics. Presence is not always signaled by the coterminous junction of shared time and space, but as the multiple trajectories that emerge in its wake.

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Yale TDR Consortium Issue
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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