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Reading Ourselves to Death — The New Atlantis
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- To play an alternate reality game is to be drawn into a collaborative project of explaining the world. It is to lose, even fleetingly, one’s commitment to what is most true in the service of what is most compelling, what most advances a narrative one deeply believes.
from Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis by Jon Askonas
Stuart Evans added
- The story of a human retreat from this world, either to the stars above or the virtual realm within, can mask a disregard for or resignation about what is done with the world we do have, both in terms of the structures of human societies and the non-human world within which they are rooted. Put another way, we might say that imagining the digital s... See more
from Thresholds of Artificiality by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Alex Wittenberg added