Clothes Line

The red leather jacket

 That sweaty leather jacket was Alberto’s mother fascination. She used to wear it every time she felt an eager excitement of dressing up or playing rock and roll. Or even when she needed to go out for a lonely walk and forget about her mother roll for a minute. Alberto didn’t like the jacket, first because the smell reminded him of his grandparents farm, second because of the red skin pieces that will fall down from the jacket leaving red confetti in the couch, and third because he didn’t like hugging his mom with that jacket it felt almost plastic like, sweaty and uncomfortable. But he knew that her mother looked fantastic in that leather jacket, her juvenile spirit sparkled, and just by wearing it for a while she was a little fresher are brighter.

Alberto’s mother was a joyful, creative woman. She will paint the rice in colors for Alberto and his brother Pablo, she had fun painting it, and she laughed a lot when friends would come over and be freak out by the blue rise and wouldn’t eat it. She felt it was necessary to change the color of life sometimes in a while. And that was exactly what the red leather jacket did to her, enliven life with red.

Response to Life on the screen

The reading talks about the human relationship to the computer. It explores how computers are beyond tools and also serve as interactions that are causing our society to perceive communications in a different level.  Sherry Turkle, the writer, is a professor of social studies and technology who has engaged herself in different virtual activities to understand further the cybernetic identities that humans explore.  “A rapidly expanding system of networks, collectively known as the

Internet, links millions of people in new spaces that are changing the way

we think, the nature of our sexuality, me form of our communities, our

very identities.” This quote emphasizes the importance of this resent technology we encounter ourselves engage with every day.

For us, as a transitional generation, we are more aware of the involvement we now have with a cybernetic reality, but yet we had let it take part of our lives to such an extent that some wouldn’t imagine their lives without a computer, it has become part of them. That is what amazes me, that even when we live our childhood without the computer and we know how much fun is to play in the mud and feel the physical reality, we decide not to give importance or even be aware that the change is so radical and impactful, we accept it fully and care not about the physical reality anymore, we even pretend we don’t need it. We think it can all happen in the virtual world. For a kid that was born surrounded by computers it would be harder to accept the need of physicality in human nature, or to even explore it. We need physical interactions, and in my point of view humanity will fall into catharsis when we realize that the virtual world will never fulfill our human needs.