What we are reading... Tender Digitality

Tender Digitality, edited by Charlotte Exelsson, offers a collection of texts and other artefacts which articulate an aesthetically oriented concept that both intricately interweaves binary systems and sets them into motion. The contributions respond to the human desire for sensuality, interpersonal connection, intuition, and well-being in digital settings. They explore ways of conveying or relaying their experiences (back) to the analogue realm of a book, thereby developing their own distinct vocabularies.

Readers are guided through the varied perspectives within this kaleidoscope, prompted to delve into various play-forms of tender digitality with the aim of forging their own. Assuming the role of researchers, they discover phenomena of extraordinary beauty or bizarreness within the spectrum spanning analogue and digital, social, and technological domains.

Through exploration, learning, and the cultivation of a tender digitality, readers imagine and project their own vision of a community where individuals and artificial intelligences, avatars and cyborgs, humans and computers navigate the digital landscape with agency, intuition, and sensitivity.