Basic thesis of essay
[and opening paragraph]
The world we live in, increasingly virtualised by technological developments, presents us with a playing field where rules are turned swiftly on their heads, in a structure whose very flexibility makes it easily subvertable. The advancing omnipresence of the Internet and technologies surrounding it play a large part in this virtualising process. As the physical, social, political, cultural and financial world becomes virtualised, the virtual world seems to become more “real”. Subsequently, we accept and subvert the world around us simultaneously; in an echo of Jean Baudrillard’s ideas about a self-referential, closed-circuit simulation of reality, one begets the other, until the two are indivisible.
Got about 600 words so far, but worried because so far I'm still sort of on introductions; not sure how I'm gonna fit the ideas into the essay, Of course on the other hand I might just completely run out of ideas halfway through... but let's hope not.
The world we live in, increasingly virtualised by technological developments, presents us with a playing field where rules are turned swiftly on their heads, in a structure whose very flexibility makes it easily subvertable. The advancing omnipresence of the Internet and technologies surrounding it play a large part in this virtualising process. As the physical, social, political, cultural and financial world becomes virtualised, the virtual world seems to become more “real”. Subsequently, we accept and subvert the world around us simultaneously; in an echo of Jean Baudrillard’s ideas about a self-referential, closed-circuit simulation of reality, one begets the other, until the two are indivisible.
Got about 600 words so far, but worried because so far I'm still sort of on introductions; not sure how I'm gonna fit the ideas into the essay, Of course on the other hand I might just completely run out of ideas halfway through... but let's hope not.
posted by Gen Williams at 7:22 PM
1 Comments:
Yes, am thinking a little about Lacan, specifically the way the image compensates for what is lacking in reality. He will probably enter as a very brief reference though!
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