ABSTRACT
The time dedicated to long-distance communication often leads to the loss of the sense of time itself, to a forgetting of the temporality which is necessary for our lives and for our exchanges with others. There are different explanations for this. What we receive through telecommunications often amounts to information which has already been selected, concentrated, focused in time, and is alien to the unfolding of everyday time. The exchange between the two is interrupted. Placing the accent upon information, the language of telecommunications does not favor communication with whoever is watching or listening. Today, contact means a telephone number, not touching each other through our senses, our skin. In our age of sexual liberation, we have lost the sense of touch – a strange paradox of a culture which unveils its foundations, its presuppositions, its underside, its secrets.
