Technosocial Womb

Definition

The technosocial womb describes a state of technological connectivity where everything is the same distance away. Where all resources, all socialization and power are available at the touch of a button. Michel de Certeau writes, that to “visit the gleeful and silent experience of infancy: to be another, and go over to the other, in a place”.. The cell phone is a space that is a place existing in extraterrestrial space, yet is a place that one can frequent again and again. Though the person on the other line may be different, the place in which the two people meet is the same. The space of a cell phone helps to reduce the isolation that exists in the modern state, and can thus be considered a womb of social connection.

The reconnection of the individual to something greater, to real social interaction, is the womb state, the Garden of Eden, the utopia. In the same way, the technosocially connected individual can travel with a womb through which social sustenance may be delivered, because no social sustenance can be delivered by individuals in the modern public sphere.