Context

The beginning of the modern retelling of The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

An unexciting dystopia: all of the internet uploaded into the mind, each aesthetic experience a commercial product, a body dissolved into a thousand microservices, each a monetizable opportunity.

This isn't to say it's somehow "designed" like this. But it is interesting that you can easily run into redditors on niche forums saying things like "imagine being concerned or offended by politics lmao" as if they were on a fox hunt in 19th century.

It also seems like a global thing. News reports are almost always dumbing things down. Can't be due to the format - documentaries manage to squeeze a lot into short form. Perhaps this is a cultural tradition stemming from the political role.

Ok now I understand who exactly Meillassoux had in mind wrt hard correlationism

Have you seen this lol? Seems one step away but imho the real argument would be coming from "if corporations are people then why llms are not". longnow.org/ideas/life-i...

In a way I think tourism (itself desacralised) is the ~700 years old countervailing force to reverse desacralisation of art. You travel around, you visit a ruin, a church, a mosque, make pictures and move on. No clue about anything but the (often former) function.

It also seems to be a global thing, a paradoxical aspiration incompatible with material conditions. Sidenote: it's been pretty funny to hear things like that for a decade in the artworld as a positive way forward for artists.

Can't even expect that a purely information theoretic approach would capture how an object functions practically or aesthetically. Gotta look from multiple angles, or you're dumbing it down. At the same time none of above mentioned relations or aspects are arbitrary or random.

You can't expect hermenutics to inform you how an object was made, what decisions led to the result. You can't derive conditions of its production, of dominant forces within the social formation making it possible, just from individual impression of how it feels like touch.