"Intimate" technologies and the crisis of socialness

Abstract

This article examines the phenomenon of «intimate» technologies. Intimacy here means the overcoming of the distance between technologies and the human body; their convergence in transgressive forms finds its erotic-sexual articulation. Various forms of technologies and the human body convergence are discussed. It was shown how these technologies affect the scope and normative rules of social interactions. The article also presents an attempt of the- matizing technological look as a special reality, generating a lot of ethical problem areas.