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Noble people, very lovable friends,

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before closing this short book that has reviewed our recent past (we
hope in a pleasant and never boring way for all of you), we want to
answer some tacit questions.

If you ever thought that we invited you to throw your smartphones into
the sewers or to reject technology as it is today, then we have missed
the target of our storytelling. The idea of rejecting our sisters’
machines and our friends’ computers never crossed our mind. We are
hybrid creatures who live in symbiosis with their electrical
counterparts.

Also, through the stories collected here, we wanted to lift the veil
that often prevents lovers from seeing each other for what they really
are. Loving machines means knowing them, living with them. Playing with
technology does not mean being played. 

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Technology can harm and benefit at the same time.

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The stories you have just read invite the most curious minds to
understand which project is inscribed in the technologies that are used
daily: lifting the veil that hides the face of the lover from our eyes
could make him flee as happened to Psyche with Eros, but it could also
allow us to invent our relationship from scratch by transforming
ourselves, the other and the world that we inhabit.

At least this was the intention with which hackers, nerds, artists,
social media managers, poets and dreamers left the house that had hosted
them during the darkest days of the Great Internet Plague. Each of them
returned to their lives with the best intentions of transforming the
world starting from the transformation of their relationships, both with
organic and inorganic creatures.

If they succeed we don’t know, but in the meantime the choice is made.

Leaving now to all of you to say and believe as you like, it’s time to
put an end to the words, turn off the screen and put to rest the fingers
tired of typing on the keyboard. And if in some way you will benefit
from what we have said, we like to imagine that you will think back to
us and the time we spent together.

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If you ever feel the desire to tell us your stories of machines and
humans we will be happy to hear from you.

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Write to info@circex.org
