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30 | www.limina-graz.eu Alessandro De Cesaris | The Taste of Truth jective. It is an event, since truth is not a steady object that rests in front of our gaze, but rather something that becomes indistin- guishable from ourselves. For this reason, a taste-based under- standing of truth conceives it as an event, rather than as a static relation. Truth is not a fact, it is not a substance, but a singular act, a process that has a beginning and an end. ̟ Craving for truth. A direct consequence of the last point is that, while singular, the experience of truth does not last. It must be constant- ly repeated in order to be kept alive. Our desire for truth cannot be satisfied once and for all, it is not an image that we can recall with our imagination, or a formula that we can memorise. It is rather a craving that invests the subject as a whole, and that forces it into a never-ending process. In this sense, truth becomes a habitus: not something we can simply be, but rather a vital constituent of our own subjectivity that we must constantly nourish. 5 Conclusion At the end of this analysis, I would like to conclude by underlining some questions that remain open. In particular, I would like to address an issue that I have set aside in the text, but that after this analysis can be consid- ered under a new light. Just like we can have a taste-based understanding of truth, or of knowledge, we can have a taste-based experience of technol- ogy. How does this analysis help us shed some light on the way we interpret our condition in the new digital environments? Our experience of technology is often understood through taste-based metaphors. A feed constantly gives us news and data; we speak of digital bulimia, of binge-watching as a visual form of binge-eating. We even speak of the “chronophagic” nature of digital devices (cf. Galibert 2013). If the metaphor of taste can help us express some core aspects of our experience of truth or of technology, it can also help us conceptualise some pathologi- cal elements of our present condition. While eating disorders are among the most important issues connected to the experience of taste (cf. Ravasi 2012, 190–193; Galimberti 2003), the How can we shed some light on the way we interpret our condition in the new digital environments?