Lockdowns: the Hyperconnections of "Invisible Cities"
Lockdowns: the Hyperconnections of "Invisible Cities"

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the paradoxes of „proximity” – based on Michel Serres and Jean Baudrillard’s readings of the concept – in relation to a new definition of the urban space that has become contagious through the effects of the pandemic. The social distance compensated by the suspension of space and time intervals in the realm of digital media are the grids of a new reading of the urban landscapes. Argia, the “invisible city” of Italo Calvino is declined, in this context, as anavatar of the quarantined citadel suffocated by the proximity of digital hyperconnections.

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