The digital order causes an increasing disembodiment of the world; today, there is less and less communication between bodies. It also does away with counter-bodies by robbing things of their material heaviness, their mass, their own weight, their own life, their own time, and makes them available at all times. Digital objects are no longer an obicere. They do not weigh against us. No resistance emanates from them. The disappearance of the Against now occurs at every level. The ‘like’ is the opposite of the obicere; today, everything craves one. The total absence of the Against is no ideal
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