“ Drawing empirical evidence from the internet hence becomes a ritual of trusting the mimetic, corruptible, mediated and disintegrating digital reality. As our life continues to increasingly become dependent on digital technology, it is therefore also being subjected to digital entropy, or the gradual degrading, decomposition of the substance of digitality. The world that opens up to us through our screen, while being very real (I challenge anyone who doubts that to publicly post their credit card data online), is not truthful in that it is reproduced virtually, its empirics can be easily manipulated and its contents are rapidly disintegrating. Instead, a different logic is therefore at play here, which is capable, as if per a trick of a magician, to generate presence from zero, and the other way around. This without doubt enables digital culture to incorporate irrationality and paradox as a naturalized intrinsic part of its epistemology.”
“ Drawing empirical evidence from the internet hence becomes a ritual of trusting the mimetic, corruptible, mediated and disintegrating digital reality. As our life continues to increasingly become dependent on digital technology, it is therefore also being subjected to digital entropy, or the gradual degrading, decomposition of the substance of digitality. The world that opens up to us through our screen, while being very real (I challenge anyone who doubts that to publicly post their credit card data online), is not truthful in that it is reproduced virtually, its empirics can be easily manipulated and its contents are rapidly disintegrating. Instead, a different logic is therefore at play here, which is capable, as if per a trick of a magician, to generate presence from zero, and the other way around. This without doubt enables digital culture to incorporate irrationality and paradox as a naturalized intrinsic part of its epistemology.”