Coda: We study the virtual because we believe in the Real

That the strong form of the assertion “We study the virtual because we believe in the Real” could turn out to name the same thought as “Why we should get paid enough to have an iphone” is another way of naming the problem every Smith in the Matrix names, as we have put it before: “We are here because we are not free.”

 

And then: it seems the world’s been reading our blog, while we were busy naming the virtual that which cannot bear to hear its name spoken, speaking of postmodernity runs on modernity’s battery power. We dutifully arrived at the train station this morning in time to purchase the coffee we consider quite biologically necessary for the performance of our job to find our train cancelled due to unspecified “mechanical difficulties,” facts we had to press a clueless conductor to verify with a computer. And so suddenly we are zooming along the freeways again, playing Hiro Protagonist while maneuvering our meaty self among the bimbo boxes at 80 miles per (including one F 350 pulling an RV we were mildly hoping we would actually get to see jack-knife right before our eyes on the way to cyberpunk seminar/postmodernity class (provided no one was injured) but which eventually managed to precariously fight the inertial zig with a noble zag onto the shoulder of the road, after gloriously bringing traffic to a halt behind it so everyone could–what else could we do?–watch) wishing we had an iphone at least to look up the number to phone Sophia’s so we could pick up our meagre rice we won’t have time to eat. During which time at least we were able to make some notes: voila! 

~ by Tim on June 9, 2008.