A neologism to describe our “public intimacy”.
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“Once the current loss of traditional public spaces is acknowledged, it will be imperative that the border between public and private spheres be redrawn. The question that arises today is whether one can imagine a public space founded in plurality — that is, a public space that is not conceived as a unique place, but within a multiplicity. What perhaps needs to be explored are the shifting limits between the intimacy and publicity opened up by new media, offering the rise of a digital flâneur and leading to a worldwide dérive. These novel confines are outlining original zones where one could dwell, singularly as well as collectively. At present, issues that are urgent to address are the topic of the “gaze,” concerns about the rise and fall of privacy, and the concept of the “in-between.” Moreover, one might ask how the notions of window, door, frame, and screen have unfolded in time, and how, under new guises, they contribute to the emergence of a virtual terrain or digital topographies.” Windows and Screens: A Topology Of the Intimate and The Extimate, Georges Teyssot, in Log, No. 18 (Winter 2010), pp. 75-88
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Sergi Pamies: “La transformación, estructurada sobre distintos ejes que impiden una estabilidad digerible, también afecta a dos conceptos claves: la intimidad y la privacidad. Citando al psicoanalista Serge Tisseron, el autor utiliza un neologismo contrapuesto al concepto de intimidad: la extimidad. Escribe Casilli: “La instantaneidad, el aquí y ahora de los intercambios sin intermediación, que antes se reservaban al círculo familiar, es ahora una característica de las colectividades en línea. Y la exposición pública, con la circunspección y el carácter oficial que conllevan, también gobierna nuestras conductas más íntimas en la red”.




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