In Medias Res (May 2023)
Psychopathy – the Operating System of the Political Stage of Digital Culture
Abstract
Modern political interfaces are increasingly using linguistic circuits that call for the reshaping of reality instead of traditional promises to upgrade the collective vision of reality. Discourse is renewed by registers from the performance interface, especially artistic performance, which naturally creates a reality intertwined with realities. The culture of deliberately created fake news, the deep unreal, and the canceled culture positions digital culture as an extension of traditional human social tools to create closed circles of ideologizing reality. There is a new discourse at work, archiving data as objects to which metadata is attached as, for example, a public performance pattern. Once activated, such objects can act in human physical reality by playing the role of public performance. In reality, they are like the language structure used by psychopaths or sociopathic groups. It is a language without an original and a goal, a language of constant adaptation to the action of creating and maintaining an interface in which the psychopath could function smoothly. That is why there is an interesting emergence of new forms of artistic performance, such as nft (non-fugitive token) that use both human and digital, bitchain, interfaces to stop the constant collapse of reality into its own instability. Is this a subversion that is always expected in situations where the system is petrified and how is it that such an action occurs as a machine-produced artistic language?
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