It’s easier to see the old way we’ve made sense of the universe and ourselves disintegrating, than to grasp new ways to make sense that emerge from our information technology symbiosis.
cut out by ~klayemi on deviantART
For example, in “Cut Out” by Klayemi, we see the old self, represented as flat photograph, splitting. Whereas the narrative space of the old self portrait presupposed a two-dimensional “universe,” that invisible narrative space is itself the message of a cross-dimensional medium.
One thing for sure, the new way of making sense isn’t linear. Gone is the kitchen table upon which we separated toys into neat categories, and us from our toys. How do separate variables while that single plane folds out into mysterious dimensions? The assumption that we can sort identities and differences in uniform passive space and time supported our capacity for reason. Critical thinking slithers from our grasp as we stream through nested narrative spaces, our attention continually sliced by rapid-fire orienting responses. Working memory fails; our little fingers drop one toy after another as the next barks and sparkles.
How do we grope out shifting patterns on a fractal meta-sorting table, as new windows open and those held in overfull arms delete? What string will lead us to contradictions snuggled away from monitor view in five-layer nesting?
This video straddles our new threshold. It's limited penetration of cross-dimensional self-perception is, at least, suggestive.
The video's the antithesis of reason.It's just a hint of the kind of space within which meme-based "reason" will emerge.
