Complicity
After the Covid-19 pandemic, few people will be unfamiliar with the many screen-based conversations. It is a boon in times of lockdown, but there is nothing like real face-to-face chats. So where does the deeply human side of our interactions come from, the one we miss so much in times of social distancing? Wouldn't it be their capacity to generate an ineffable complicity that goes far beyond words, body language, winks and smiles? It is difficult to characterize this synergy since it is expressed without manifest signs. Any interaction can potentially allow to experience this; no need to know each other to actually trigger it.