insanrides on Nostr: Hasan Spiker: "The internet is the ultimate rejection of essences; so much of it is ...
Hasan Spiker:
"The internet is the ultimate rejection of essences; so much of it is the concretisation, in a new, 'external' world, of the perspectival relativisation of all things. It is the concretisation of self-determination, in a constructed level of being. Things can be created there; 'essences' can be 'designed', they can be made actual by simply combining into a whole whichever aspects of the imagination we wish to reify or even personify.
But the internet is not a concretisation of the imagination in the way that a work of great art is a concretisation of the imagination, by which one might rest from weary life...Rather, the internet is the concretisation of the imagination that has come to be used as a replacement for a real world, and for a real human subject living therein...
The internet is a world brought into being to serve as the willing manifestation of posmodernity's dream, replacing an extramental world which, stubbornly insisting that it indeed has a real nature, so obstinately and tenaciously resisted that dream"
The Unravelling of Intelligibility: Elements of Modernity Volume 1
"The internet is the ultimate rejection of essences; so much of it is the concretisation, in a new, 'external' world, of the perspectival relativisation of all things. It is the concretisation of self-determination, in a constructed level of being. Things can be created there; 'essences' can be 'designed', they can be made actual by simply combining into a whole whichever aspects of the imagination we wish to reify or even personify.
But the internet is not a concretisation of the imagination in the way that a work of great art is a concretisation of the imagination, by which one might rest from weary life...Rather, the internet is the concretisation of the imagination that has come to be used as a replacement for a real world, and for a real human subject living therein...
The internet is a world brought into being to serve as the willing manifestation of posmodernity's dream, replacing an extramental world which, stubbornly insisting that it indeed has a real nature, so obstinately and tenaciously resisted that dream"
The Unravelling of Intelligibility: Elements of Modernity Volume 1