06/2025
BOOKER MAGAZINE ISSUE 006 Feature Article.
READ
This article begins to unpack the idea of going digitally S.O.B.E.R. [Son Of a Bitch Everything's Real] by personifying the internet as a ‘partner', in order to let us reflect on our relationship with it and analogies for us to see ourselves in. It asks us to imagine our devices as if they hold the character of or something close to 'human' - bodiless but something. The article proposes our relationships as either one of a Dog, Co-worker, Obedient Wife or Father Figure with each relationship used to symbolise the varying degrees we care for and spend time with our devices in order to realise it is an intimate relationship in itself. Suggesting the idea of ‘digital intimacy' and internet intimacies as grounds to analyse how much we afford devices and have much they overwrite the aspects of humanity that we often long for.