Comments on: Augmented Reality and Avatar (Part Two) http://www.hydramag.com/2010/01/06/augmented-reality-and-avatar-part-two/ Literary arts magazine dedicated to the wayward, ordinary, bizarre, everyday, and the impossible. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:35:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jose-Luis Moctezuma http://www.hydramag.com/2010/01/06/augmented-reality-and-avatar-part-two/#comment-2813 Jose-Luis Moctezuma Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:06:30 +0000 http://www.thehydramag.com/?p=1792#comment-2813 Julio: great feedback. I'm glad you dug into the piece. It's true, immersion and emptiness can paradoxically coexist: much to be gained from this understanding. Life is not in HD, which is why HD does its best to simulate it: the Good is signified by the false reflections that shine it back. Julio: great feedback. I’m glad you dug into the piece. It’s true, immersion and emptiness can paradoxically coexist: much to be gained from this understanding. Life is not in HD, which is why HD does its best to simulate it: the Good is signified by the false reflections that shine it back.

]]> By: Julio http://www.hydramag.com/2010/01/06/augmented-reality-and-avatar-part-two/#comment-2812 Julio Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:28:31 +0000 http://www.thehydramag.com/?p=1792#comment-2812 I feel that this film demands that we truly <i>see</i> the wonder of the place where we live. Much of what we do day to day <b>IS</b> what our predecessors would see as magic. The fact that I have heard that some leave the film feeling depressed because of the fact that they can't live on Pandora only tells me one thing: the poverty of modern life as created by late Capitalism (The Spectacle, as the Situationists referred to it). All is made hollow and empty if a price-tag is not attached; so naturally some will long for a world where value and worth is not determined by market forces but by interpersonal relationships. Watching the film I felt the immersiveness of it but also ultimately its emptiness. Of course no film could supersede reality since reality is it; real-life is not in HD. That said, this is probably the most perceptive write-up on "Avatar" that I have come across. I feel that this film demands that we truly see the wonder of the place where we live. Much of what we do day to day IS what our predecessors would see as magic.

The fact that I have heard that some leave the film feeling depressed because of the fact that they can’t live on Pandora only tells me one thing: the poverty of modern life as created by late Capitalism (The Spectacle, as the Situationists referred to it). All is made hollow and empty if a price-tag is not attached; so naturally some will long for a world where value and worth is not determined by market forces but by interpersonal relationships.

Watching the film I felt the immersiveness of it but also ultimately its emptiness. Of course no film could supersede reality since reality is it; real-life is not in HD.

That said, this is probably the most perceptive write-up on “Avatar” that I have come across.

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