Hauntingly otherworldly daguerreotype portraits from the 1850s. Their names are long forgotten, only the glitched artefacts remain.
All reproductions are from Michael Shanks’ Ghosts in the Mirror.
Category: flaneur
The more complex and orderly the system, the more it is prone to confuse its internal states for external reality. It confuses its internal order for external one.
That is why when things glitch and get weird we see new and strange states appear. The system’s internal cohesion momentarily glitches or breaks, and we get the chance to reframe our cognitive image of reality.
That’s when we learn.
People of #bcm112 here is the most important slide from your lecture tomorrow pic.twitter.com/oBDmEbXiKG
— Teodor Mitew (@tedmitew) February 25, 2018
So, this happened today, and space will never be the same again. This simple image has vastly bigger importance than the increased payload and reduced cost of the Falcon. And who else to accomplish this but Elon Musk – space flaneur. Suddenly, space is not an extension of the bureaucratic state machine anymore, instead it has been reframed into a place where this is possible:
View from SpaceX Launch Control. Apparently, there is a car in orbit around Earth. pic.twitter.com/QljN2VnL1O
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2018
We knew 2018 will be a meme year, but it’s only February and apparently there is a car in space. On its way to Mars. Where can we go from here? https://t.co/tD0gSkj7O1
— Teodor Mitew (@tedmitew) February 7, 2018
Alone in the vast emptiness of space, Starman is staring at the diminishing Earth and a dashboard saying Don’t Panic. I’d like to think the glove-box really contains a copy of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a towel. https://t.co/tD0gSkj7O1
— Teodor Mitew (@tedmitew) February 7, 2018
This is so surreal. A new s p a c e a e s t h e t i c is born #Starman #FalconHeavyLaunch pic.twitter.com/oMfWyKSt1v
— Teodor Mitew (@tedmitew) February 7, 2018
A new meme is born #Starman #FalconHeavy pic.twitter.com/Okg7nJBvVS
— Teodor Mitew (@tedmitew) February 7, 2018