[-empyre-] real vs. unreal

[Simon Biggs]

Start with Heidegger and then Latour. They establish a useful ontology that
allows for non-human and inanimate agency that probably accommodates the new
definition you seek.

Best

Simon


On 30/04/2011 04:07, "John Craig Freeman" <John_Craig_Freeman at emerson.edu>
wrote:

> 
>> From: Will Pappenheimer <willpap at gmail.com>
>> 
>> I think we are in need of a new definition of existence, one that includes
>> the digital or networked object.
> 
> Call it a consensual, collective hallucination.
> 
> 
> 
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