THE MARKET HAS A MIND AND IT’S DREAMING OF YOU: SEX, VIOLENCE & CORPORATE CYBER PARANOIA
AUGUST
a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals. reality is empty now. fetishized money is expressive of a pure and simple absence, so it becomes speculative, exponential, itself doomed to crashes and sudden wild swings. sexuality strives outwards and overflows the adjoining domains because it cannot find satisfaction in itself, because it never attains its goal. violence becomes the only real, palpable surface. the desert of cities is equal to the desert of sand. the jungle of signs is equal to that of the forests. the vertigo of simulation is equal to that of nature. only the vertiginous seduction of a dying system remains, in which work buries work, in which value buries value, leaving a virgin, sacred space without pathways where only the wind watches over the sand. and they are always watching you, even in your dreams
