/bored. so bored.
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kangeikoI love the idea of a pseudicide, although I don't think that I'd be able to pull it off. I'd have to change my name and move out, and very probably ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
athena25 would hit me around the head with something solid. So.
Probably not what the instigators of the above debacle were thinking about - and thank god I'm not in the SV fandom and have no interest in it! - but the idea of a 'virtual' death is fascinating, especially in a world where a large part of our personas and identities are dependent upon technology. Say you are accidentally declared dead on your tax form / electoral roll / whatever - how much does the 'fake world' of online data imapct your 'real world', given that your 'real world' is constructured through externally-referenced cues feeding back from that same 'fake world'?
In other words, I have been reading too much Baudrillard. But, hey, it takes my mind off the impending EXAM DOOM!!! moo hoo haa haa etc etc.
To bed, now.wingsmith spent a good hour testing me on the notes to the cash flow statements, and I have to do a whole stack of questions before heading to the ultra swishy & swanky cromwell hospital tomorrow for a vast array of paperwork and bills. Ah, the wonders of modern medicine.
athena25 would hit me around the head with something solid. So.Probably not what the instigators of the above debacle were thinking about - and thank god I'm not in the SV fandom and have no interest in it! - but the idea of a 'virtual' death is fascinating, especially in a world where a large part of our personas and identities are dependent upon technology. Say you are accidentally declared dead on your tax form / electoral roll / whatever - how much does the 'fake world' of online data imapct your 'real world', given that your 'real world' is constructured through externally-referenced cues feeding back from that same 'fake world'?
In other words, I have been reading too much Baudrillard. But, hey, it takes my mind off the impending EXAM DOOM!!! moo hoo haa haa etc etc.
To bed, now.
wingsmith spent a good hour testing me on the notes to the cash flow statements, and I have to do a whole stack of questions before heading to the ultra swishy & swanky cromwell hospital tomorrow for a vast array of paperwork and bills. Ah, the wonders of modern medicine.