10 / November 17
Metaruins
“Abstraction reflected the economic mechanization of consciousness.”
— Meyer Shapiro
Topics
XR SF: Neuromancer’s Cyberspace, Snow Crash’s Metaverse, Ready Player One’s Oasis; David Chalmers’ Reality+; Sugarscape, Life with the Artificial Anasazi; the Interface Theory of Perception v. the Simulation Hypothesis; Girard’s Mimetic Violence; Kant’s antinomies of pure reason; Levelism: epistemological, ontological, methodological, abstraction
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