[4] Wait What?


I recently got to experience (I think) what Baudrillard was talking about when he said "simulation is characterized by the precession of the model."



I recently moved in with my partner and her family. Leading up to the move, my partner and I would FaceTime almost constantly — we studied together, ate meals together, watered our plants together, etc. After about 6 or seven weeks of that routine, it felt basically normal; her technologically simulated presence felt just like presence. But then, when we first met up to quarantine together, I could barely make sense of our new three dimensional reality. Honestly, I was down right disoriented and confused. When we talked a bit about how trippy the plunge back into physical reality was, I remember trying to say something along the lines of, "oh my god this is so surreal. Like, there's this book i've been reading for class and like I think it's kind of meant to explain what I'm feeling right now? But I don't really know?" Anyways, that was interesting.



Project update:

I started my project wanting to "document the transfiguration" that the world is going through because of covid. Since then, I have started to see my project and website as a sort of conceptual almanac. I'm logging real events and phenomenon that I encounter — friends playing catch in deserted mall parking lots or the "new store policy signs" that are posted outside businesses, for example — that are taking place because of covid. On top of that, though, I'm adding a few pieces to my website that are meant to document what I'm feeling. So my website I guess is serving as part anthropological field log and part diary.

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