SEEN fragmented HEARD incomprehensible LOVED incomplete
Assistant Professor of English, Asian Studies, and Cinema & Media Arts
Vanderbilt University
The advent of the digitally networked era has awakened us to a spectral
subjectivity—fragmented, incomprehensible, and transgressive, straddling
disparate spaces and time. While such faculties have been traditionally cast
under negative light, I believe that the porousness and fluidity of this
unconcealed state of being allows us to appreciate and inhabit a present-
progressive mode of being, embracing imperfection as part of our own make.