everyone is always connected
background
- released 1999
- blending of cyberspace and reality
impressions
ep 1-3
- connection through powerlines
- relation between technology, life, and death
- ‘drug’ , modifying the human condition and capabilities with technology
- sparsely detailed backgrounds, splattered paint in shadows, surreal
- eerie, paranoia, being watched - “you are not alone”
- Psyche - language around brain and computer intermingled - God, Human, Animal, Machine
- what’s more real, the ‘real world’ or the Wired?
- commentary similar to simulacra (todo)
- “it was like a movie, it didn’t feel real” - real life becomes like 3D projections of the digital
- easily accessible evil and pain enabled by the connectivity of the internet
- a disconnected and distant family
- digital personalities, the side of you that comes out when you’re behind a screen
- a desire to escape
- who is lain? ep 4: religion! divine machinery ?
- contrasting opening: “humans are not connected to anyone”
- outward naiveness/innocence
- you prefer a machine to your friends?
- ‘you mustn’t confuse (the wired) for the real world” ep 5: distortion
- woah! distortion of God? fourth wall break
- mankind as “neoteny”? a limit to evolution, technology as a way of unlocking another form of existence
- the Wired as an escape from mankind’s wretched, purposelessness, flesh existence
- apathy towards tragedy
- hackers
- prophecy, history, “connection” of points in time
- the network as lifeline of society - a dependency
- “the body exists only to verify one’s existence” 6-
- friendship vs isolation
- “the real world isn’t real at all”