27/02/2026
‘The term interaffect was used by philosopher Eugene Gendlin (1926 - 2017) to describe a constant process of people influencing each other. The concept discards the view that we, humans, interact with the environment in a linear way, like a computer that first receives an input, analyzes it, and then produces an output.
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Looking at the technological advancement through the lenses of interaffect yields some
pessimistic thoughts as well. Just as our present often recontextualizes our past, the technological modernity of our species does not necessarily elevate animalistic instincts, instead, it recontexutalizes them constantly. The circulating ideas of “dark enlightenment”, accompanied with sprouting technologies of mass surveillance and mass extermination are products of such recontextualization of our animalistic nature. The progress itself becomes a danger. Locking together three car doors in his Intersección sculpture, Héctor Falcón does not only warn us about the illusional safety of the automobile but also about the romanization of tragic death, a direct influence of the mass media on the Western culture…’
