What is InterFigures?

InterFigures explores the reciprocality that arises from the mutual proximity of global "figures" to one another. Figures, as this blog uses the term, include not only objects or images, but also information, conversations, states, persons, and so on, as these appear in our globalizing world. Such figures are ambiguous insofar as they both inform and take their shape from a multivalent global space -- that is, a combination of spaces physical, intellectual, imaginative, virtual, and more -- the form of which continually changes. Global space, in this sense, is not a finite, fill-able plane, but rather an open field that uses the terms of dimension as a metaphor for the relational figuration of its contents. If space is so composite, unsteady, Janusian, then the compositors of that space -- figures -- must provide the climate of slippage and shift that make for such an environment. It is into this dizzying picture that the InterFigures blog immerses itself -- as a figure of its own, looking to give a modest, clarifying, and sometimes humorous account of the figures with which it collides. These figures may include persons or situations in the news, works of art, music, or literature, and the occasional observation from lived experience. InterFigures seeks not to obscure contemporary global life (as by its likely disorienting discussion of the "figure," which is really irrelevant) but to provide illuminating micro-pictures of  the conversational, often conflictual, but always contactual nature of living therein.