Post 12: Spaces and Exchanges

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Doc 2

Doc1:

In the foreground, there is store window where a pedestrian is drawn by the attention of an ad. The man is carrying a briefcase and he's dress like a business man. The warning is against traveling physically due to the pollution cause by the excessive tourism. Also we see that the computer store is called "ACE COMPUTERS" that means first class computers. This might suggest that is preferable to travel online instead of polluting by traveling. Otherwise, they are trying to convince people to stay at home and they advice travel through the virtual world. 

This caricature is a criticism of the frantic use of the Internet and the boom of tourism as eco-tourism who also pollute even if they don't travel as the normal tourism. Nevertheless, this cartoon also denounce the fact that this type of business they often use it as a pretext to win more money at expense of the environment. But also they talk about the advancement of technology and the constant change that we are experiencing in a near future. 

Doc 2: 

In this second cartoon, the set take scene in  an office where the employees are not physically present.  Their chairs are empty and their faces appears in the screens of the computers. They cannot make eye contact because they are separate because each one is in a cubicle. In the caption, we see that one of them is asking about his assiduity at work. I found it paradoxical because they are both present at work even if they attend in a virtual form. 

I reckon that the cartoonist aims to show this tendency, that we are now experiencing at home,  call telecommuting. This consist to work from home instead of be physically present at work. I think that it can also implies that with the advanced technology some works will be erased and others could be done at home. Nevertheless, I might suggest that this situation will complicate the social interaction that is necessary for our personal development.

NOTION:

I might deduce that these two cartoons shows the interchangeable places between the real and the virtual world. We are constantly connect thanks to our electronically devices. Moreover, our spaces are more and more hybrid thanks to the technological progress. Also, these technology are corrupting our social spaces as the workplace or the tourism. To put it in a nutshell, the space between the virtual and physical space is more and more blurred.