The space of flows dissolves time by disordering the sequence of events and making them simultaneous in the communication networks, thus installing society in structural ephemerality: being cancels becoming.

--Manuel Castells: Space of Flows and Timeless Time

"Shimmer" questions the disposable screen identities and its embeddedness as social selves, the deterritorialization of individual's status and diminishing criteria of referentiality between presence and remoteness in the realm of virtual space.