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This is the postmodern, "hyperreal" condition alluded to by Baudrillard and others of his ilk, where the documents and symbols of identity and personhood are el
by ryandv 2y ago
This is the postmodern, "hyperreal" condition alluded to by Baudrillard and others of his ilk, where the documents and symbols of identity and personhood are elevated above the physical matters of fact themselves. It suffices to simply produce language of identity or language of personhood to establish a fact, and absence thereof implies nonexistence.
Ultimately, according to this postmodern ethos, reality is mediated by power and consensual narrative; therefore, despite your individual lived experience, the fact that Google does not recognize your existence at this address makes your nonexistence and nonresidence actually the case, because Google has the social gravitas to assert its own view of the world as actually factual.
If one finds this state of affairs as intolerable as the author of TFA, in which one can definitely inhabit an address despite there being no record of it in the Akashic cyberrecords, then one had best discover how to demonstrate the absurdity and undesirability of said postmodern philosophy.
- BlueTemplar 2y agoThey don't find that state of affairs intolerable in practice, otherwise they would have already taken steps to not only avoid themselves to use GAFAMs, but also to associate themselves with businesses whose websites don't work if you block requests to GAFAMs and/or only have Android/iOS apps. And started doing it years ago. (I can bet they didn't, because otherwise I expect that they would have give examples how they did so, this article being a perfect opportunity.) Instead, if you scroll down, they themselves have a Github account ! It's a bit like a doctor complaining about the prevalence of lung cancer, while themselves chain-smoking in their own practice, during patient consultations.