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2月29日 A Liam-coloured space.Blog entries are difficult to do when you're in transit. It's sort of like writing in a moving car- your knee keeps wobbling and the pace is too fast to think. Blogging what I think and believe is difficult when what I think and believe becomes blurred. Maybe blurred is the wrong word; maybe the right one is fragmented. I'm like a fly, I have a million hexagon shaped incongruous images of the world, and being in this isolating state of mind seems to make your personality some kind of temporary construct within your body, which acts as an empty carrier. If you talk about personality as a list of traits, I couldn't produce a list of traits for you. If you talk about 'liking' things such as sports, books, and music, then I couldn't definitively tell you what I 'like'. I could tell you what I'm between, what I'm above and what I'm beneath. I could tell what I avoid. I could say I craved fame, and achievement, and that I feared disappointment and failure. But otherwise I'm rather adjectival; meaningless without context.
2月7日 HyperconsciousnessHypergraphia is an incessant addiction to write down everything that comes into your head. Hypersexuality is an incessant craving for sexual gratification. Hypertension is chronic elevation of blood pressure at a biochemical level. 'Hyper' is a prefix used to denote something of a higher, greater energy or magnitude, but distinguished from 'super' by its connotations of mania, of being erratic and out of control.
The term 'hyperreality' was first put forward by the sociologist Jean Baudrillard. It has a disputed general meaning, but is generally understood to mean the reality constructed by images and taken as real by those unable to distinguish reality from fantasy. It's not used often enough. I say that because its everywhere; those kids in America that used a rifle to shoot cars said they did it because they saw it in Grand Theft Auto. Girls everywhere in Middle Western society are going into bathrooms and sticking fingers down their throat to look like the photoshopped pictures of women in Seventeen magazine. Sometime after 9/11 we started believing that people from Iraq flew planes into the World Trade Centre, and we started sending soldiers to a war against the wrong country. Do you think advertising is really affecting you? Do you think you're being conned like everyone else?
Imagine being flooded with ideas to a point where you can't concentrate because of the noise of waves crashing against walls in your head. There is a point where you've seen so much that nothing is new, nothing is fascinating, nothing grabs your attention because your attention span is now just some outdated concept from your old pitifully mediocre life. Mediocrity is the reason why people find freakshows and pulp fiction and Jerry Springer interesting. Lose your mediocrity and you can find a whole new media landscape to explore, full of soundscapes and forests and lakes and mountains and philosophy and pure science and hyperepistemology; true knowledge. This is a place where none of your dreams come true because there are no dreams, only experiences, and better yet, there is no hyperreality, no matrix to be plugged in to. There are aliens though, there are people you've never seen before, there are trees growing horizontally and out of floating rocks, there are Mobius strips and Escher staircases, alient music, there are corporations and logos because logos are beautiful, they pretend to be a lot less than people think.
Psychonauts use drugs to achieve a state of pseuso-omniscience, or at least some plane of higher knowledge. That brings me to another prefix: 'meta', meaning from, beyond, above, at the next level. Metadata is data about data. The metaverse is the universe within which our own exists. Metacognition is knowing how your own cognitive systems (systems of knowledge) work. If there was a metameaning then that would be my Holy Grail; it would be like taking all the meaning in the world and finding the folder its stored in. It would be like taking all the gears and looking at the macine. And then a blueprint of the machine would be worth the Taj Mahal, or the Collosi of Arabia, or Microsoft. Whatever I'm looking for, its bigger than us both. |
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