A perceptual book

The Arcades Project is a perceptual book: it insists on being lived. It anticipates the digital in that the claims and affordances we are offered by the digital are in many ways what the Arcades Project is looking for. For instance, walking down city streets dictating thoughts into an iPhone. What this means is that one is living; it means writing the experience of one's own life, experiences one is having processing the city streets. What does this mean in real time, for instance what would one do with this voluminous output? Perhaps it's not very significant, which is what the digital tells us, with the overload of information, etc., the unlikelihood that any output will find an audience. Perhaps it's the simple fact of putting something into language, where all of our perceptions are contained to begin with and so that we actively complete the telos Benjamin mentions in Convolute N. We become the flaneur much more readily with our iPhone 7s. We come to a point where we must read our environment, but without language as we've known it.