City of Legends. Stanze, webcam e social network
Davide Tommaso Ferrando
Luxury villas rented by tiktokers; an office tower turned into a training center for professional video gamers; an underground capsule hotel guarded by more than a hundred CCTV cameras; windowless streaming rooms; bedrooms in which it is impossible to sleep; domestic settings used for political video messages. These are just some of the places described by Davide Tommaso Ferrando in City of Legends, a book that traverses and investigates the new forms of domesticity produced by digital communication technologies. Similar to a bestiary of contemporary living, the book offers a vision at once familiar and perturbing of the 21st century home, describing it as a “cyborg space” in which “what is private becomes public, what is internal becomes external, what is intimate becomes collective, and what is hidden becomes visible.”