The Dynamics of Addiction
The dynamics behind people's addiction to substances are the same behind people's addiction to technology. We seek to repeat experiences in regard to how they feel (consider people, places, food, substances, artifacts, activities).
The more numbing to your awareness of the real base situation – the more ´lightening´ they are – the more you seek them. It's as if you were looking to be unburdened, looking for release and to be released. It's as if you were looking for a micro-death... looking to stop existing for a moment. An addiction to death and climax and the ways they release us from the moment. Halcyon.
Corollary
Our interaction with technology and one another resembles more a chemical reaction than a mechanism, with infinite aspects to be harmonized and reconciled.
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bis / On the Aesthetic of Fascination