Submitted by Alex Gibson on Sun, 06/05/2007 - 23:59.
"In a recent lecture at Columbia University, Slavoj Zizek coined a millennial aphorism that foregrounds the equivocal status of "being" in the information age: "We are what we want, in cyberspace." This provocation, which recasts ontological status as an effect of virtual desire, suggests why some bimillennials are still reading Freud, to discover if our "postsociety" has succeeded in substituting interface for face–to–face." from "Is Oedipus On–line?"
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[5:36] Snppls Sewell: YEAH, I LIKE THE IDEA OF LOOP TOO, BUT WE NEED MORE DIRECTION IN REGARDS TO WHAT WE WOULD SHOW BEFORE WE COMMIT TO SOMEWHERE
[5:36] You: exactly
[5:36] You: yeah
[5:36] You: goos point sean
[5:36] Ori Habercom: true I am getting of myself
[5:36] Ori Habercom: ahead
[5:36] You: i think we are talking about dealing with hyperreality
[5:37] You: the virtua; and the real
[5:37] You: simulation
[5:37] You: installation
[5:37] You: authenticity
[5:37] You: authorship
[5:37] You: and represetnation
[5:37] Ori Habercom: the disbelief of the suspended
[5:37] Snppls Sewell: YES, I LIKE TEH IDEA IF WE CHANGE THE IDEA OF REAL AND FANATASY
[5:37] You: role play
[5:37] Snppls Sewell: INSTEAD MAING EVERYTHING REAL
[5:38] You: Slavoj Zizek "We are what we want, in cyberspace."
[5:38] Ori Habercom: I think it should be more emphasis on this and the lack of activity of the physical
[5:39] Snppls Sewell: YEAH, A PERFECT QUOTE
[5:39] You: he means this as in we are no longer in a state of desire - but of attaining desire - this for him (a psychoanalyst.. sort of) means a kind of death
[5:39] Ori Habercom gave you -Floating text.
[5:40] Snppls Sewell: THE INCREASING CONTROL AND MANIPULATION OVER OUR ENVIRONMENTS
[5:40] Snppls Sewell: THE ABILITY TO CUSTOMISE
[5:40] You: so maybe the show is called "We are what we want"
[5:40] Ori Habercom: everything you cant have
[5:40] You: it alludes to the commodity of SL too
[5:40] Snppls Sewell: SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES YEAH
[5:41] You: ...just a working title of course
We are what we want
"In a recent lecture at Columbia University, Slavoj Zizek coined a millennial aphorism that foregrounds the equivocal status of "being" in the information age: "We are what we want, in cyberspace." This provocation, which recasts ontological status as an effect of virtual desire, suggests why some bimillennials are still reading Freud, to discover if our "postsociety" has succeeded in substituting interface for face–to–face." from "Is Oedipus On–line?"
[img_assist|nid=1385|title=SL: 'online we are what we want'|desc=|link=node|align=center|width=600|height=375]
[5:36] Snppls Sewell: YEAH, I LIKE THE IDEA OF LOOP TOO, BUT WE NEED MORE DIRECTION IN REGARDS TO WHAT WE WOULD SHOW BEFORE WE COMMIT TO SOMEWHERE
[5:36] You: exactly
[5:36] You: yeah
[5:36] You: goos point sean
[5:36] Ori Habercom: true I am getting of myself
[5:36] Ori Habercom: ahead
[5:36] You: i think we are talking about dealing with hyperreality
[5:37] You: the virtua; and the real
[5:37] You: simulation
[5:37] You: installation
[5:37] You: authenticity
[5:37] You: authorship
[5:37] You: and represetnation
[5:37] Ori Habercom: the disbelief of the suspended
[5:37] Snppls Sewell: YES, I LIKE TEH IDEA IF WE CHANGE THE IDEA OF REAL AND FANATASY
[5:37] You: role play
[5:37] Snppls Sewell: INSTEAD MAING EVERYTHING REAL
[5:38] You: Slavoj Zizek "We are what we want, in cyberspace."
[5:38] Ori Habercom: I think it should be more emphasis on this and the lack of activity of the physical
[5:39] Snppls Sewell: YEAH, A PERFECT QUOTE
[5:39] You: he means this as in we are no longer in a state of desire - but of attaining desire - this for him (a psychoanalyst.. sort of) means a kind of death
[5:39] Ori Habercom gave you -Floating text.
[5:40] Snppls Sewell: THE INCREASING CONTROL AND MANIPULATION OVER OUR ENVIRONMENTS
[5:40] Snppls Sewell: THE ABILITY TO CUSTOMISE
[5:40] You: so maybe the show is called "We are what we want"
[5:40] Ori Habercom: everything you cant have
[5:40] You: it alludes to the commodity of SL too
[5:40] Snppls Sewell: SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES YEAH
[5:41] You: ...just a working title of course