Nonlocality-Multilocality

Non-locality is driven by increasing mobility and digitisation, which allows place-independent communication and possibilities for action, and fundamentally changes the relationship between time and space. With electronic signals, speeds are reached in which the time of transmission shrinks to almost nothing. The space-boundedness of the first modernism dissolves rapidly and leads to a non-local second modernity in which everything can take place at any time and in any place. ‹One can interpret the introduction of the mobile phone as the symbolic knockout punch against space-boundness.› (Bauman). As the place-bound becomes irrelevant, the sedentary no longer dominates and nomadic principles become ever more important.

Literatuur:
Beatriz Colomina und Mark Wigley, ‹Homo Cellular›, in: Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design, Zürich 2016, S.239-251
Timothy Morton, ‹Nonlocality›, in: Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, Minneapolis 2013
Zygmunt Bauman, ‹Vom Leichten und Flüssigen›, in: Flüchtige Moderne, Frankfurt 2003
Marc Augé, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, Munich 1994

Operation Neptune's Spear, 2011

In 2006, the ethnologist Johanna Rolshoven formulated one of the most frequently cited definitions of multilocality: ‘Multi-locality means vita activa in several places: where one’s active everyday life in its entirety is distributed over different places that are visited in more or less equal periods of time and used with a more or less equal functional role.’ Put simply, multilocality refers to the phenomenon of more and more people renting or owning more than one place of residence.  The cause of multilocality can be attributed to the increasing acceleration and mobility of our society. In addition to residing in several places, patterns of leisure behaviour also provide reasons for this emergence. In addition, the individualisation of lifestyles leads to more and more people living multilocally. These include couples living separately or children sharing homes with separated parents who live in different places. Increasing divorce rates (40 percent, 2017, BFS), as well as the dissolution of traditional gender roles, contributes to this form of living.

The Leopard, Film by Luchino Visconti, 1963

Literatuur:
Maike Didero, Carmella Pfaffenbach, ‹Multilocality and Translocality. Concepts and Perspectives of a Research Field›, in: Geographical Review, November 11, 2014, P.4-9
Nicola Hilti, ‹Not at home and yet at home? - on the phenomenon of multilocality› in: Swiss Archives of Folklore, No. 103, Zürich 2007, P.168-187