What is reality?

AB 115: Blueprint for a New World, Part 4: Techno

September/October 2014

Is your OS up to date? Good. How’s your WiFi connection? Great. Are you reading this hunched over in a cubicle? LOL. Or maybe huddled in a bomb shelter? Uh-oh. Are you ready for Reality 2.0? Yikes. Can’t quite kick your Facebook habit? That’s normal. Or perhaps you’re wondering about the meaning of life now that every human action is monitored, recorded and exploited by the data-industrial complex?

Yeah. So are we.

In this issue we explore a question that all of us try to answer every minute of our lives: What. is. reality?

A philosophical meditation on the nature of life in the post-Candy Crush world, issue #115 is a visual adventure into the surreal.

In this issue, Douglas Haddow, who put a nail in hipsterdom’s coffin back in #79, is back and has set his sights on the data- of Silicon Valley. Heidegger is here. Franco “Bifo” Berardi is also here, asking us about trans-humanism.

Are we ready? Are you ready?

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