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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 | 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. | ||
It consists only of data, and data is of the past. Data is ''finite'' and ''historical''. The digital world is not futuristic, but instead backward looking. | |||
''Real life'' is, by contrast, graduated, ambiguous, deprecated, provisional, malleable, nuanced and forgiving. It flexes. It acknowledges that for all you do know, there is infinitely more you do not. It asks the viewer to apply imaginative open-mindedness to invent an excellent outcome. It is, in the sense offered by [[Finite and Infinite Games|James P. Carse]], ''infinite''. | |||
Being ''human'', it offers scope for redemption, reinvention, and reconfiguration. | |||
No-one is perfect —neither the judge or the judged —so we must make allowances for error, misunderstanding, misapprehension. Online, ostensible fallibility has fallen away. Judgment is simply a special case of categorisation. We can, do, and to get by, ''must'' categorise. | No-one is perfect —neither the judge or the judged —so we must make allowances for error, misunderstanding, misapprehension. Online, ostensible fallibility has fallen away. Judgment is simply a special case of categorisation. We can, do, and to get by, ''must'' categorise. | ||
So when did this great delamination happen? | |||
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*[[Rocks of Ages]] | |||
* ''[[Finite and Infinite Games]]'' | |||
*[[Rocks of Ages|''Rocks of Ages'']] | |||
*[[Non-overlapping magisteria]] | *[[Non-overlapping magisteria]] | ||
*[[Molesworth]] | *[[Molesworth]] | ||
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