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Looking is one thing, touching another, walking around another, picking upanother, opening up another, taking to pieces and putting back together indifferent ways another, and so on. Indeed, all forms of cultural innovationpreciselydependoncomplexenactiveprocesseslikethisgoingonallthetimeandentanglingsynergeticallywithoneanother.Enactive interfaces facilitate multiple forms of interaction, experimentation orotherformsofcooperitionwithotherness,inwhateverguise,whereveritmaybeintheworld,orelsewhere.Thismaybeseenasapotentiallyusefuldevelopmentfor us and our societies, since it respects the fact that as human beings wecontinuallyneedtoremodelandremakeoursenseofselfandourownabilitiesandpossibilitiesthroughlive,embodiedentanglementintheprocessualflowofbeing and meaning that is constituted by our own and others’ actions in theimmediate or at‐a‐distance presence of many, many other animate andinanimate objects and beings, in other spaces and places, wherever these mayhapppentobesituatedintheworld.Inthisconnectiontoo,openorsemi‐opensocialnetworkingenvironmentswithaludicprofilesuchasFacebook,MySpaceandYouTubeseemtocaptureatleastsome of the essence of this particular way of understanding of our essentialhumanity.Therearealready,andwillcertainlycometobe,many,manymore–andifweare interested and make some eforts to do so, we will certainly be able todiscoverthesetoo…References(provisionallist)Espen Aarseth, 1997, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,Ian Bogost, Nick Montfort, 2009, Racing the Beam. The Atari Video ComputerSystem,Cambridge(MA),London:MITPress.