The EYE is Never a Phantasy in Your Second Life at WIERD...

September 12th, 2007

The WIERD is inordinately excited to say that in two weeks Wednesday September 26ththe dark analogue electronic duo of Xeno and Oaklander will be performing live! So please mark the calendars you wish you had inside yr cells to program yr rotting little voice-emitting fleshly blobs to roll down the icy street and blow in the door to let Martial and Miss Liz pleasure you with their frozen cold pleasures soon to be born on small wholy black circles in the Very Rare WIERD world...

So two days the WIERD was given a jolt more 'contemporarily' frightening than few others in recent past memory when our esteemed colleague in the WIERD apocryphal unteachings on the abstract WIERD world M.Josh Strawn reported in his suspiciously unjewcy Juicy blog IT highly recommends for all to subscribe to: http://www.jewcy.com/daily_shvitz/there_is_no_second_life that the world is very close to ITs end...IT seems this past week the University of South Florida began officially encouraging all students to familiarize themselves with 'Second Life', the newly 'real' video game sweeping the world with ITs (apocalyptic) vision of reinventing oneself entirely anew, to announce that in the coming year IT would begin a complete switch to eventually hold all classes there on 'second lived' video . As the game has no rules other than to 'live and be IN IT, a place where all exchanges use real $ and time, IT presents the final coming of thee IT ITself! - in other words the official arrival of mediated abstract spatio-temporal reality as the new 'real' world. The (non)game is causing all kinds of fantastic IT-derived problems: people having breakdowns as a result of social interactions and employment problems they have in ther second lives, bankruptcy as a result of their monetary expenditures there, and relationships crumbling both as a result of affairs in the second life and neglect of their first world relationships and families.

In considering the appropriate reaction to this radical IT arrival on planet Very Rare(stangely prophetic in this case as ITs arrival literally shall eventually make the 1st reality VR ITself!) the WIERD has to stop and think. Obviously the liberals are going to tirelessly babble in their typically dust and cobweb encrusted Blaudmehardian and 5-inch-Yankee Stadium-level-sophisticate Frankfurter school rhetoric about how the image now IS the real, the body is dead etc. etc. we're all doomed as the 'subject' has officially dissolved to slide ITs little hotdog into thee VR hard drive forever but IT would like to suggest this is not quite as simple and horrible as IT seems and rather the WIERD would like to argue that in fact in order to enter the Second life one must in fact have already ITs subjectivity/self aka ITs 'I' fully comoposed and intact...and the echo-delayed baseline and smoke machine begins...

You see here's the propostition being put forward in not-so-coldwave in Florida: 'class' is now officially your 'second' life. this could be interpretted in two ways - firstly as (the deepthroating Frankfurters should love) IT sounds eerily proto-Communist as if to suggest class is no longer 'real' - in this version everyone being equal in their isolated little dormrooms alone with their laptops to look down at their flacid little hotdogs and hotdog repositories to see no line waiting to get into the game...no more class, IT is a thing of the passed. Secondly and more important for the fervently non-Centrist Centrist WIERD: for any mediocre pleasure-seeking student 'class' has always been their 'second life', not just for the obvious reason that 'learning' comes second to partying and fucking, but more literally because college 'class' in itself is only made monetarily possible by the support of their first-life-means, usually upper-middle class mom and dad, or else a life in VR bank debt etc.

The interesting thing about class being inherently 'Second (IN) Life' is is that IT causes so many worthless students not to attend IT, in favor precisely of getting baked all day in their frathouses and playing video games like Second Life ITself. Great thing then is neglecting their educations often results in having substance abuse problems, shit jobs and horrible lives...and needless to say - very little 'class'(not only because they end up on the uber-proley end of IT sluggin for Jesus in the second life they hope for, but rather because all their ganja-drenched burping and farting games are their life ITself - exactly the sorts of coldwave sad existencees that in turn create the urge to look towards a rebirth in Second Life ITself, and not for 'class'(despite all the franfurters they massage daily their beyond this by now) but much more truly dark-synthly - to BE...

So how does Second Life work on Ms. Cogito's Very Rare empirico intake of the VR world? If for the sake of Very Rareument we can say that in 'understanding' the 'first' life empirical stimulus comes through the screen of the eye onto the brain, where in turn the 'subject' forms sensory-impressions and slowly develops ITself into a true 'self' - or 'I'. For Second Life therefore the process must be once removed - now the SCREEN plays the mediating role of the 'Eye' through which one sees and develops ITself into an 'I' inside, and the 'Eye' plays the same role as the brain did in the first life. So if the brain now has nothing to do with the 'I', the 'I'(as the post-Franco-everythingers, existentiallists etc. have 'shown') your Eye is always a 'phantasy' as IT does not exist but rather your 'I'

already 'mediates' the (external)world in that who YOU ARE determines how the world appears to you, in other words in your first life your 'I' creates your phantasies, and then in turn this same 'I' creates the belief you know who that 'I' is, which you truly(the Franco-Furters tell you) never do - 'The 'I' IS a phantasy ITself and does not exist...but rather is Very Rare... The obvious assumption about Second Life would be you need IT to create a (new/or any) 'I' but the irony is you can't even have a second life without an Eye to see the 'Screen', yes IT is true the 'I' must be intact to see the second life!

Thus the WIERD cuntclosion from IT all is not the obvious liberal-apocalyptico of Second Life is both a symptom of and a solution to a sadly forever lost and empty absent subjectivity but rather precisely thee VR opposite - one who can 'play' Second Life must already have ITs 'I' and self(annihilating albeit usually) intact in order to see IT on the screen, and therefore Second Life is thereby proof subjectivity has been finally after all these coldwave years restored! The stronger the Eye the more need for and ability to have a second life!... for without IT one cannot see...into the screen...to die...and be WIERD a second time and forever...Very Rare...

Pieter and Martial Canterel Spin the Lovely Second Life of the Coldwave EYE!!!
Wednesday, September12th, 10pm-4am
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