Notes From the Metaverse - By L. M. Sacasas - The Convivial Society
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Notes From the Metaverse - By L. M. Sacasas - The Convivial Society
In recent years, nearly every part of the contemporary human experience, from work to sex to church to sin, has been remoted and abstracted for our convenience.
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But eventually we are left with nothing sacred, nothing we can take seriously. It all becomes a self-referential circle jerk of irony descending slowly into total relativism without an anchor; nothing to which to be relative; without a meaning; without a social truth in sight.
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This coercion to extend every adventure as long as possible — the nostalgia continuum — is the connective tissue fastening past experiences to the logic of the “feed,” which cuts the flow of experience down into atomized parts that are readable to tech platforms, enshrines chapters in life to make them rankable, interactable, and presentable to you... See more
Real Life Mag • Nostalgia for Nostalgia — Real Life
When more and more of the “things” we take up during the course of our day are digitized or virtual realities, which leave few if any traces in the world?
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
