This just popped up in the Rhizome Raw* RSS feed:Public tribute for Jean Baudrillard on World of Warcraft.
Ars Virtua will be holding a public tribute to honor the late social and political theorist Jean Baudrillard. Jean Baudrillard's criticisms and view on Simulation are influential to our discussions of the MMO.
This short program will be held on the WoW Kilrogg server, 4-5pm PDT, March 17, 2007 near Orgrimmar. Please send tell to Zuluu upon arrival in-world for the location.
Ars Virtua is a new media center and gallery located primarily in the synthetic world of Second Life. It is a new type of space that leverages the tension between 3-D rendered game space and terrestrial reality, between simulated and simulation. Ars Virtua is sponsored by the CADRE Laboratory for New Media. I shouldn't laugh at this, but now whenever I hear "World of Warcraft" I can't get the image out of my head of the South Park episode with the bloated pasty middle aged man with skin diseases who sits at his computer all day eating junk food and racking up obscene numbers of points killing everyone in Warcraft. Would Baudrillard have "gotten" that?
*Update, 2011: The Rhizome link has been changed to http://rhizome.org/announce/events/47095/
Also, would he have gotten Cartman shitting in a basin held by his mother, cooing "Now that's a good boy?"
Simucrapla and Shitulation?
i just heard about second life about an hour ago.
another pop culture item of which i was unaware was homies. i was given one of a fat bald guy lounging in his armchair in his underwear sucking on a stogie pointing the remote towards an unseen tv. my friend inked my name across his wifebeater t-shirt. no visible skin disease though, which is a shame. ahh, here i am - lazy roy. and i have no idea what baudrillard would think about this.
Dave, I think of you more as a robust guy playing tennis and sledding. You're certainly more athletic than me.
I think homies is one of those things I see but try not to comprehend.
As for Second Life, it appears to be a successful (as in popular) version of something that died quietly after the '90s called Active Worlds.
I seem to remember a Virtual Chelsea there around '98.
This "Snow Crash/Lawnmower Man" VR paradigm refuses to die.
Actually, I think the bloated middle-aged guy was Baudrillard.
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This just popped up in the Rhizome Raw* RSS feed:I shouldn't laugh at this, but now whenever I hear "World of Warcraft" I can't get the image out of my head of the South Park episode with the bloated pasty middle aged man with skin diseases who sits at his computer all day eating junk food and racking up obscene numbers of points killing everyone in Warcraft. Would Baudrillard have "gotten" that?
*Update, 2011: The Rhizome link has been changed to http://rhizome.org/announce/events/47095/
- tom moody 3-15-2007 7:35 am
Also, would he have gotten Cartman shitting in a basin held by his mother, cooing "Now that's a good boy?"
Simucrapla and Shitulation?
- j in jc (guest) 3-16-2007 4:07 am
i just heard about second life about an hour ago.
another pop culture item of which i was unaware was homies. i was given one of a fat bald guy lounging in his armchair in his underwear sucking on a stogie pointing the remote towards an unseen tv. my friend inked my name across his wifebeater t-shirt. no visible skin disease though, which is a shame. ahh, here i am - lazy roy.
and i have no idea what baudrillard would think about this.
- dave 3-16-2007 5:00 am
Dave, I think of you more as a robust guy playing tennis and sledding. You're certainly more athletic than me.
I think homies is one of those things I see but try not to comprehend.
As for Second Life, it appears to be a successful (as in popular) version of something that died quietly after the '90s called Active Worlds.
I seem to remember a Virtual Chelsea there around '98.
This "Snow Crash/Lawnmower Man" VR paradigm refuses to die.
- tom moody 3-16-2007 8:52 am
Actually, I think the bloated middle-aged guy was Baudrillard.
- alex 3-17-2007 4:20 am