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Musings on the aesthetics of virtual worlds. Involution, immersion and the negative exchange. Anti-passion, anti-sex and impossible exchange.
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Explanation and exposition of a number of concepts relevant to virtual relationships and future d... more Explanation and exposition of a number of concepts relevant to virtual relationships and future deviations from rational and productive life. A defence of symbolic and aesthetic relations vs. those of a productive linear system. An alternative to the bureaucratic nightmare of contemporary sociality and its pseudo-moralities of 'identity'. An examination of 'simulation' as an alternative mode of being to that which emphasises 'reality'.
The contemporary psychic mechanism for interpreting the world opposes two essential domains - tha... more The contemporary psychic mechanism for interpreting the world opposes two essential domains - that of The Real and that of Illusion. From this domain emerges similar oppositions of positive and negative, the legitimate and the illegitimate, the subject and the object. The hypothesis of the present text is to suggest that this measuring of the world in terms of rational oppositions is untenable, particularly given the threat, in this age of transparency, of its absolute fulfillment. Human interaction and meaning necessarily requires Evil and this excess of sociality and socialization which emerges from the language of hyper-reality becomes increasingly insufferable. From this state there (re)emerges a new moral conception - that of symbolic exchange.
VR becomes first the road of escape from rationality and immerses us in a new system of symbolic exchange which reconstitutes Evil in relational terms. That is, Evil provides a context for a 'scene'. VR begins as a hopeless response to the contemporary world of over-socialization, self-consciousness and impossible exchange and in this, deploys a new system interpreting human interaction in the world itself.
Explanation and exposition of a number of concepts relevant to virtual relationships and future d... more Explanation and exposition of a number of concepts relevant to virtual relationships and future deviations from rational and productive life. A defence of symbolic and aesthetic relations vs. those of a productive linear system. An alternative to the bureaucratic nightmare of contemporary sociality and its pseudo-moralities of 'identity'. An examination of 'simulation' as an alternative mode of being to that which emphasises 'reality'.
The contemporary psychic mechanism for interpreting the world opposes two essential domains - tha... more The contemporary psychic mechanism for interpreting the world opposes two essential domains - that of The Real and that of Illusion. From this domain emerges similar oppositions of positive and negative, the legitimate and the illegitimate, the subject and the object. The hypothesis of the present text is to suggest that this measuring of the world in terms of rational oppositions is untenable, particularly given the threat, in this age of transparency, of its absolute fulfillment. Human interaction and meaning necessarily requires Evil and this excess of sociality and socialization which emerges from the language of hyper-reality becomes increasingly insufferable. From this state there (re)emerges a new moral conception - that of symbolic exchange.
VR becomes first the road of escape from rationality and immerses us in a new system of symbolic exchange which reconstitutes Evil in relational terms. That is, Evil provides a context for a 'scene'. VR begins as a hopeless response to the contemporary world of over-socialization, self-consciousness and impossible exchange and in this, deploys a new system interpreting human interaction in the world itself.