Traditional linear languages appear increasingly insufficient to describe the vast complexity of our everyday online experiences.
We can no longer explain our e-merging realities:
How to convey the thrills and bores of online navigation?
The infinitudes of e-merging universes?
Our everyday wanderings across multi-dimensional spaces?
The new range of intimacies binding humans and non?
The lack of metaphors to describe the digital universe hinders our ability to understand the nature of today's e-merging existences, and the intricacies of new technological social formations and systems of power.


These conditions are manifested and lived through the digital interface.
The grammar of this language is regimented through a set of practices geared towards the engineering of experiences and perceptions: the 'user experience design' (UX)
Dominant UX design practices heavily deploy metaphors from the physical world: pages, buttons, desks, books, newspapers, magazines... images of a world now gone.
To see through these metaphors, and the habits and perceptions they perpetuate, illuminate the centrality of the digital interface to contemporary existence.

THE DIGITAL INTERFACE IS GLOBALLY
OUR MAIN MEANS OF COMMUNI
CATION:
THE EPICENTER OF CONTEMPO
RARY CULTURE