The Banana Peel Project

Talk about the powers of remediation….
Digitization, even at 16 million pixels, is not preservation
or even reproduction.
Digitization, even at 16 million pixels, is still simulation.
But now we’ve both got some beautiful, colorful, delightfully manipulable desktop wallpaper.

I see mirrors everywhere.
Maybe it’s because I’m imposing my own mental schema on the rest of the world. After all, Kant was right when he said, “Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature but imposes its laws on nature.” Or maybe it’s because mirrors are easier to see than other things. […]

We live in a mirrored world. But our world is not a circus fun house, full of contorted caricatures and infinite reflections. Instead, our narcissistic technologies of communication provide the structural framework for a universal human cathedral of perfect simulation.
Cybernetic technologies, those tools which use feedback to extend or disrupt consciousness, […]