Digital condition, the. [def]

Copy and paste. Peer-to-peer. Free Software. Open Source. Questioning and re-drawing the boundaries of the real and the authentic. Promethean extension of global consciousness. Redefinition of communication, community, group dynamics, class consciousness. Capacity to tear down the consumption – production dichotomy, replacing it with plastic affluence and endogenous social relations premised on community involvement. Where societism can be decoupled from its economic facet. Arbitrary claim of the industrial-cultural complex; apotheosis of The Spectacle, of the Image, of the Sign, of Representation, of the Avatar, of the Automaton, of Narcisus. Embodiment of the revolutionary force of the reversal of perspective, ultimate justification of the radical subjectivity of those opposing property and law. Where pre-history is - presumably but wrongly - thought to give way to history. Where sterile hope is boycotted but also reproduced. Copy and paste.

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