Everywhere and Nowhere

Thoughts in relation to Poster (2004) reading:
"If information moves without the human body, if media moves information to bodies, and if bodies and media move together through space, in all three cases the body is everywhere and nowhere."

It is difficult to eradicate the bodily presence from the use of mobile communication just because we do not need to move about to disseminate messages to someone at a different place. It was argued that our body is obsolete as we can now send messages across with myriad of mobile technologies such as phone messaging and e-mails. We are no longer obliged to move about and meet up with someone else in order to pass a message. Thus, can we now conclude that our body is no longer in use? Is this the space anxiety many media theorists mentioned in their findings?

I would argued that the mobility of message sending has became a part of our body, an essential we would want it to be at close proximity to our body. For instance, the portability of laptop and mobile phones has made these gadgets part of our everyday lives. Thus, our body is not exactly out of use, instead the body works together with the mobile technologies to meet our social or educational demands or to amplify their existing culture. Mentioned in the reading, the Italians integrate mobile phone with their culture. This is similiar to how the world are now integrating mobile technologies to fulfil their political, social or cultural needs. The body is engage in disseminating messages by accessing to the Internet in a cyber cafe or dropping by a coffee place with wifi access and ringing up someone on your mobile phone.

As virtual reality and the idea where the mind leaves the body arised, our body nonetheless, indirectly participate in the process where sensors are connected to our physical body in order for us to be immerse in a virtual reality. Therefore, our body is everywhere eventhough it could appear as a mirage to someone in a distant.