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Lost in the GRID - My so-called Second Life

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second lifesecond lifeFor the past three weeks, this thing called Second Life has consumed my time, my wallet, and my mindspace. The question is: why? Is it because there is a tremendous amount of speculative activity on the SL Grid regarding the potential of money to be made in selling aether> Is it the potential of having unrelenting avatar sex with humans, furries, centaurs, elves, or mecha? Is it the fact that within three months, I have met the strangest asemblage of people, been in bizarre and compromising stiuations, slammed a cycle with a girl on back into the side of a mountain at 180 KPH, or blew off a nuke that crashed my grid?


Digital Self

What is the digital self? What is the mediated self?


Pornography of Images

To Christina:
Question:

Do you use the word pornography the same way Baudrillard uses it to mean, "..of harassing images themselves or making them suffer by exhausting their effects, even making the script they dreamed of(one hopes) into a sarcastic parody, a pornography of images." -

from Jean Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art pg. 112


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