Essentials for a Manifesto on Transgressive Simulation
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- We admit from the outset that the virtual is the estranged simulation of a reality lost. We further admit that Continue reading
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“The hermit turns his back on the world and refuses to have anything to do with it. But one can do more than this: one can try to recreate the world, to build another in its place, one in which the most intolerable features are eliminated and replaced by others that accord with one’s desires. As a rule, anyone who takes this path to happiness, in a spirit of desperate rebellion, will achieve nothing. Reality is too strong for him. He will become a madman and will find nobody to help him realize his delusion.” (Freud, Civilisation and Its Discontents,pg. 23)
Re-contextualizing Art and Evil
The virtual world is Evil, unreasonable and tends towards Continue reading