Transfers 7(1), Spring 2017: 4–25 © Transfers doi: 10.3167/TRANS.2017.070102 ISSN: 2045-4813 (print) 2045-4821 (online) Interplaced Mobility in the Age of “Digital Gestell” Christopher Howard and Wendelin Küpers Abstract e following article explores meanings and implications of mobile tech- nologies and embodiment in a globally networked context. Drawing on eth- nographic research on global travelers moving through Nepal and India, we focus on the role mobile technologies play in mediating perceptions and performances of place. Facilitated by contemporary media and mobility in- frastructures, we suggest that mobile subjects are relationally “interplaced.” By introducing this notion, we aim to illustrate how forms of virtual mobility overlap with and impact actual, corporeal experience. Following Heidegger, we also develop a concept we call “digital Gestell” (enframement). Applying Heidegger’s reflection that technologies of a given historical epoch frame the way subjects approach the world, we can say that many people today are “dig- itally enframed.” Facing this increasingly technologized Being-in-the-world, we suggest an “ethos of Gelassenheit” for a more responsive and responsible awareness of the powers technologies hold on our perceptions and actions. Keywords: embodiment, Gelassenheit, Gestell (enframement), Heidegger, interplace, media, mobile technologies, phenomenology “I am never here only, as this encapsulated body; rather, I am there, that is, I already pervade [the world] and only thus can go I through it.” — Heidegger, “Building, Dwelling, inking” 1 “My body is wherever it has something to do.” — Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception 2 “us, the formula of modernizing processes is as follows: Progress is movement towards movement, movement towards increased movement, movement towards increased mobility.” — Sloterdijk, “Mobilization of the Planet in the Spirit of Self-intensification” 3 is article suggests that bodily and technological media allow human be- ing(s) to extend beyond their delimited bodies and immediate physical en- vironments. In the twenty-first century, technological forms of life reveal Being-in-the-world as an event that takes place within, across, and between places. Indeed, the willingness and readiness to be “on the move” seems to have developed as a strong imperative in late modernity, 4 as mobile relations,