How can we think of being outside the box of the internet? Jullien states that people inside a certain metaphysics can't really see their the full extent of their metaphysics.... so how can we be outside the internet? It's become such an obvious part of life.
This instruction is a little bit different because it attempts to remove us from the way of life that we know.
It's another two-fold instruction.
Instruction Part 1: Do not use your computer/tablet for one week. This includes your (smart)phone for everything except phone function (that means no texting to let everyone who you usually text know ahead of time.). Every time you feel the urge to use the internet, your computer, the texting function, write (yes, with a pen or pencil) down a reflection entry trying to think about why you need to use it, what you would do if you didn't have it, and how it makes you feel. Try to analyze your situation. At the end of the week, write a larger reflection piece telling us the general role of the internet in your life and how you felt as the week progressed (more or less frustrated? More or less on the outside). Analyze the role of the internet in people's lives, especially now that you've lived outside of it. If you want to challenge yourself: Go a month or more without technology.
Instruction Part 2: We write differently when we're online or when we're texting. Attempt to write this way using traditional means - Basically, one of the things you would be doing would be writing in text speak on a piece of paper. Does it feel weird? How has our writing become less literate and more electrate?
I know, it's ironic that I'm telling you not to use the internet on something that you would never have seen had the internet not been invented, but go with me and I think everyone will get different results (at least slightly) that will allow us to separate ourselves from the internet culture we find ourselves in: we will begin, I hope, to see more of the metaphysics of the internet than we've seen before.
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