Institut Ramon LLull

The world is a virtual interface. Through the screens of our digital devices we experience physical (and psychic) reality; we exchange images and information that condition our private and public lives. This technology has already changed personal relationships, our ideas about ourselves and our very perception of time and space. At these coordinates, life is reduced to a spectacle managed by private interests. To combat this commercialized gaze, Ingrid Guardiola proposes using Bartleby’s strategy; in other words, refusing to participate with a gentle “I would prefer not to.” Following this gesture, the author strives to recover a critical distance from the virtual world, facilitate an alternate space in which to re-establish community ties in order to make our world inhabitable.