RUPC #8: Return to the Far Side, Virtual
Chambers, Peter. (2020) Return to the Far Side, Virtual. Or: what The Wire’s 2011 End of Year list can tell us about how values emerge from a culture that produces itself in its own imaginary web of self-reference. Surpllus Pty Ltd in co-operation with the Research Unit in Public Cultures, the University of Melbourne, RUPC #8/Surpllus #13.5
Or: what The Wire’s 2011 End of Year list can tell us about how values emerge from a culture that produces itself in its own imaginary web of self-reference
The focus of RUPC #8: Return to the Far Side, Virtual. is to understand the political present and social change, pursuing a basic commitment to critical theory through the problems and symptoms of a moment, the moment of End of Year mania of the blogosphere. This report shows us back to the folly of any kind of predictive futurism, the unavoidable impossibility of being a free subject and agentic individual in a world of systems, as well as the necessity of trying to think critically about what we are involved in together, now, online.