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Meaning that what ''was'' a simulacrum increasingly no longer ''is''. There is much danger in confusing the two. | Meaning that what ''was'' a simulacrum increasingly no longer ''is''. There is much danger in confusing the two. | ||
Elemental manifestations: ''online'' discourse and discourse ''in real life'' are qualitatively different: ''online'' is deterministic, delineated, scaled, binary, digital, definitive, eliminative, final and binding. | Elemental manifestations: ''online'' discourse and discourse ''in real life'' are qualitatively different: ''online'' is deterministic, delineated, scaled, binary, digital, definitive, eliminative, final and binding. Being digital, it is like code: exact, precise, machined. Tolerance implies sloppiness: poor workmanship. Marginal error. | ||
''IRL'' is graduated, ambiguous, deprecated, provisional, malleable, nuanced, forgivable. Being ''human'', it offers scope for redemption, reinvention, and reconfiguration. | ''IRL'' is graduated, ambiguous, deprecated, provisional, malleable, nuanced, forgivable. Being ''human'', it offers scope for redemption, reinvention, and reconfiguration. | ||