In philosophical attempts to bridge the virtual and the actual, chora presents an unlocalizable and undifferentiated place of place, the stuff and communicability of the ineffable. In theories of early childhood, chora presents a space for emergence of language and consciousness in continuity with an entity experienced as a place, utility, or container. A human infant's contestations over the im/personality of its caregivers provide an analog to philosophical disputes over a personality of the cosmos: the genders and attributes of Nature and God.

Ambivalence about a mother as an environment, a machine, or a person manifests in contemporary situations of eco-murder/suicide and teletechnology, a turn to digital mediation characterized by contradictory cravings for immediacy and distance that collapse into a matrixial substrate for late capitalism. In response, I suggest the receptivity and assertion of listening and talking. Chora in our contemporary moment can still hold and hold open space through the material-semiotic transmutation of bodily needs and wishes into alimentary, affective gatherings with revolutionary potential.