brief bio: fast disappearing
[But perhaps the function
of disappearing is a vital one.
Perhaps this is how we react as living beings, as
mortals,
to the threat of an immortal universe, the threat
of a
definitive reality. So this whole array of technology
could
be taken to mean that man has ceased to believe
in his own
existence, and has opted for a virtual existence,
a destiny
by proxy. Then all our artefacts become the site
of the
subject's non-existence. For a subject without an
existence
of his own is at least as vital a hypothesis as
that of a
subject decked out with such metaphysical responsibility.
Seen from this angle, technology becomes a marvellous
adventure, just as marvellous in this case as it
seems
monstrous in the other. It becomes an art of disappearance.
It might be seen as aiming not so much to transform
the
world as to create an autonomous world, a fully
achieved
world, from which we could at last withdraw. Now,
there can
be no perfecting of the natural world, and the human
being
in particular is a dangerous imperfection. If the
world is
to be perfect, it will first have to be made. And
if the
human being wishes to attain this kind of immortality,
he
must produce himself as artefact also, expel himself
from
himself into an artificial orbit in which he will
circle
forever.]
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