Dig the Dirt
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It seems kind of strange that eating parasitic worms causes a cure rather than a disease. Yet, this fact is no stranger than many other man-bites-dog stories about "real life" in contemporary times. Such stories arise at moments of changing equilibria in the processes of the social construction of reality. They are especially evident during periods of intense dialectic in which long held theses are being upended by powerful antitheses, and the glimmer of an eventual synthesis is still occluded by ignorance and confusion about what is at stake. The emergent dialectic among the “real” and the “virtual” provides a particularly interesting opportunity to explore the mechanisms of such dialectics. The opening quote from Laurie Anderson is a device to explicate the tension between the real and the virtual, and the mechanics of reconciliation by which a new equilibrium might be forged. In this story the patently “unreal” notion of virtuality makes a rhetorical play for the status of “real.” This fundamentally deconstructive act reverses the established hierarchy of opposition among the terms, revealing both to be children of a more generic parent. The initial hierarchy of opposition casts the real in a superior position to the unreal, in a manner similar to other constructs such as truth/fiction, fact/opinion, informed/ignorant. Reversal is necessary for the unreal—in this case, the virtual—to establish claims of attention by which the unreal is not judged merely in inferior contrast to the real but as an essential part of the very notion of the real. Without this, the virtual cannot establish its own reality. The initial attempt at this
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تاریخ انتشار 2007