Microphysics of Hardware or the Gigantism of the Infinitesimally Small

Abstract

International audience ; English version of a lecture (5.000 words) delivered in Greek at the Marshall McLuhan & Walter J. Ong International Centenary Symposium (The New Sensorium - Embodied Perception, Extensions of Humanity & Digital Communication), held in Athens, Greece (20-21 April, 2012). The symposium was organized by the Department of Communication, Media & Culture of the Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences and its postgraduate programme in Cultural Management, in association with the Coach House Institute and its McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology at the Faculty of Information (University of Toronto). For further information, see here: http://entopia.org/newsensorium/