The disappeared concept of space
I sat in a chair and had a two-hour conversation with people in a group using Bluetooth headphones, during which my conversation partners constantly changed.
In his study of the characteristics of postmodern culture, Fredric Jameson proposed that in the postmodern context, the disappearance of the time-historical dimension makes it seem as though humanity lives in an infinitely extended present. He likens this situation to the spatialization of time. However, at the same time, in another dimension of social life, we are also facing the gradual disappearance of space, which is even more easily experienced.
我坐在椅子上用蓝牙耳机和一个群组里的人打了两小时的对话，在这个过程中我对话的对象不断的发生变化。
在后现代文化特征的研究之中，Fredric Jameson提出了后现代语境之中时间-历史维度的消失，使得人类仿佛生活在无限延申的当下之中，他将这一现状比作时间的空间化。但于此同时，在社会生活的另一个维度之中，我们也同样面临着逐渐消失的空间，这甚至是更易于体验的。
Accelerated transportation has gradually transformed distance into time, causing the journey to lose its significance. The future development of autonomous driving technology may likely further diminish the concept of "time spent on the journey" by re-structuring the space within vehicles to be more convenient for everyday activities, thereby causing the journey to vanish. In this way, space is fully transformed into time, but this transformation is not yet complete. With the widespread use of personal mobile devices, space that has been temporalized may once again be transformed into events: watching a two-hour movie on a tablet at home is barely different from watching the same two-hour movie during a journey. Thus, the experience of the journey is almost erased.
In culture, we are confronted with the thinning of time, while in life, we face the thinning of space. These two forces, stemming from late capitalist culture and technology, seem capable of flattening everything.
加速的交通让距离逐渐成为了时间，让路途逐渐失去意义，未来自动驾驶技术的发展很可能通过对交通工具内空间日常化便利化的重新架构使得【路途中的时间】这一概念愈发淡化，于是路途便消失了。于此空间完成了时间化，但这一转化并未完全结束。伴随着个人移动设备的普及，时间化的空间会再次被转化为事件：在家中平板上看两小时电影与在两小时的路途上看两小时电影的差异是极小的，继而路途的体验感便被几乎抹除了。
在文化之中，我们面对逐渐稀薄的时间，而在生活之中，我们面对逐渐稀薄的空间，来自晚期资本主义文化与技术的两股力量仿佛能够扁平化一切东西。
