INTERFACING TERMINAL REALITY

The / is the screen interfacing the new electronified subjectivity (the person) and the simulation, the spectacle, of the digital mediascape that increasingly produces and controls the framing of the real (and performs largely invisibly--think of computer codes and Drone warfare). The / is not a separation, because it instantiates (makes "real") the Terminal Identity of the posthuman cyborg (i.e., all of us), now interiorized/exteriorized so there is increasingly little difference in the human lifeworld on one "side," and the paraspace of terminal "space" on the other. It is the new I/Thou of self as virtual unity, as the / of human/computer interfacing usurps much of the production of fantasy of the former human-to-(non-terminal)-world. The / is the window to (interface) fantasy cum Terminal Reality.

SIMULACRUM OF HISTORY

In 2091, the Anti-HyperRealist Party, also known as the Ahrps, were locked in internecine struggle with the Reformed Baudrillardians for control of the Global Throng (the GTs) and its power to design the next Generation of cyborgs. A few weeks before Double Saints Ronnie Day (although historiography was outsourced to a consortium of BollyHolly interests, every school-cyborg knew of the two saints who were officially merged into a single McReagan), the Reformed Baudrillardians joined forces with the BollyHollians to control the GTs and its design of the next Generation. The design was uploadized to all person-devices, and named "Gagaslacrum," after a long-forgotten, but once influential entertainer-turned-media mogul. Immediately Ahrps were rounded up and sent to various mallparks for rehabilitation. Many were merged with a later version of Gagaslacrum. The original Pre-Cyborgian model was promoted on fast-track to sainthood (by edict of BollyHolly) due to her influence on the design of later Generations.