Abstract
Contemporary life has made us aware of the fact that we live in an age defined by technology. The different ways in which we can think and question our time are tightly related to our own technical possibilities to name, represent and preserve the present. However, this situation is often opaque and mysterious to us, because it hides the mediatic condition of its own construction. To explore this represented present as ‘actuality’, following Jacques Derrida neologisms of ‘artifactuality’ and ‘actuvirtuality’, allows us to clarify its own technological and, therefore, mediatic nature. To do so, this article explores the narcotic quality of the media, as described by Marshall McLuhan in his book Understanding Media, and the possibility implied in the encounter of two media of counteracting its numbing effects, in order to propose new ways to respond and become responsible for the media construction of our time and the present.
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