The Dream of Virtual Reality - by L. M. Sacasas

The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 1

I’ve been in the midst of drafting an installment on how means tend to displace ends when cultures become what the late Neil Postman called technopolies and how that may effect our personal and collective capacity to imagine and desire more than what the present techno-economic milieu can offer. But that is not what you are about to read. What you are about to read is born out of a measure of exasperation, which may not be the most noble motivation, yet here we are. The exasperation arose as I read some of the claims made by the philosopher David Chalmers in a recent article about his…

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