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Being-in-place versus being-in-texts
Our embodiment, our being-in-place, is far stronger and denser than our being-in-texts, even though places can be seen as a kind of text-ure. Being in position and being oriented in place can be oppressive or liberating in ways that texts cannot manage. (Though the two may tend to come together as texts become multimedia and then mutate toward virtual realities.) Because embodiment is unavoidable (when virtual reality includes places it is offering some analogue to embodiment), design in the traditional sense remains very important amid all the talk about linkage and virtualities.