6/9/22, 10:18 AM Connected by extension - How paying connects old regimes and new isolations - Allegra Lab ‘close contact’. While the director-general’s words likely did have effects, I delve a bit deeper into physical techniques and contact. (https://allegralaboratory.net/wpcontent/uploads/2020/11/chaine3.png) Chaîne opératoire 3: Paying by contactless card in a supermarket in Germany. The credit card (green circle) is held to or touches the reader. As a PIN needs to be entered, finger residue (violet semicircles) remains. The cashier hands a receipt back to the customer (red cross and circle). If we apply a similar perspective to another, ‘contactless’ way of paying by card (as in chaînes opératoires 3 & 4), we see two things happen to the contact between customer and cashier. First, points of physical contact are reduced but not eliminated. There still is physical, at least electronic, contact between reader and card https://allegralaboratory.net/corona-connected-by-extension-how-paying-connects-old-regimes-and-new-isolations/ 9/12