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Encounters with the Post Reality

Every day in the post reality is a new day. A fabricated reality based on the strategic design of forgetfulness to be absorbed into the media-generated narrative… In the post reality there is no such thing as the private. We are all on! Or we want to be. There is a death-like fear of being alone, of being left out… In the post reality we are all performers, we are all on stage, there is no distinction between… In the post reality the virtual has more potency than reality itself… In the post reality, everyone belongs to everyone else… In the post reality, there is no longer separation between that which is real and that which is not… The Post Reality is a horrific exaggeration of a world in which we are all performers in a pervasive reality tv show… In the post reality, the artist’s life and work is an episodic series… THE ARTIST CAN FREELY ACCESS THE OTHER WORLD, AND THAT MY FRIEND, IS THE POST REALITY… Who am I? In the post reality you never quite know who you might be… for now… It’s all a show for our entertainment, our diversion, stimulation. For every day in the post reality is just another show, another episode in the unfolding saga of the ever-present present… The Post Reality is to build one!!. In the post reality, everything is very precise, every action is logged perfectly into the master CLOCK: all of us synced together perfectly entwined in the ever-present-present, our GPS coordinates maintained + tracked wherever we go… In the post reality, there actually is no ending. It simply doesn’t end, unless we stop it… The post reality IS THE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF… It is in this present day reality where we inhabit a new kind of territory that has blurred our perception between what is real, what is simulation, what is non-human, animated, or mechanical: we have entered, clearly and unequivocally, the post reality… Moving BEYOND REALITY [beyond the suspension of disbelief] in the creation of a world, my own imaginary universe: that is the post reality. AN IMAGINARY SHOW.

  • Welcome to the Metaverse (8/4/2022)
  • TRUMPology as a State of Simulation in the Post Reality (8/23/2020)
  • Life in the TRUMP Zone (8/10/2020)
  • The Cinematic Spectacle of the Impeachment Saga (1/19/2020)
  • The Divided States of America (12/10/2019)
  • Deep in the Heart of Ukraine (11/16/2019)
  • Countering the Republican Disinformation War on Reality (11/14/2019)
  • Crushed by Truth (10/31/2019)
  • The Televisual Impeachment Spectacle (10/3/2019)
  • The Situational Comedy (8/8/2019)
  • The Deadly SHOW (8/6/2019)
  • Reportage (7/23/2019)
  • Why I Have Timestamped My Life (7/18/2019)
  • XTreme TRUMPological Dystopia (6/13/2019)
  • The Imposition of the Host on the Disorderly Flow of Events (6/2/2019)
  • The Most Dangerous Threat of all is the Post Real (5/20/2019)
  • Beyond the Edge of the Real (5/3/2019)
  • As I Sink Even Deeper into the Hypnosis of the Media Torrent (5/1/2019)
  • To Grasp the Sheer Volume of Media Excess (4/14/2019)
  • TRUMP the Manchurian Candidate (3/3/2019)
  • The Greatest Show on Earth for the Post Reality (2/27/2019)
  • Theater is a State of Constant Emergency (2/16/2019)
  • The Great Memetic Pavlovian Experiment (2/6/2019)
  • Stoned & Confused (1/26/2019)
  • The Complete and Total XTreme TRUMPological Shutdown of the Mind (1/18/2019)
  • Wall of Mediation (1/11/2019)
  • An Ode to Madness on an Apocalyptic Xmas Eve (12/24/2018)
  • Impaled on the Artistically Designed Great Wall of America (12/22/2018)
  • TRUMP owns our Minds (10/17/2018)
  • The Art of TRUMP L’oeil (8/12/2017)
  • TRUMP’s MIND Control (6/21/2017)
  • The Net Dynamic Environment (5/27/2017)
  • The TRUMP Simulation Effect (4/16/2017)
  • Traveling Across the Broadcast Space (4/15/2017)
  • The Collapse of the Real and the Imaginary (2/19/2017)
  • Made-for-Media Moments (2/13/2017)
  • The Attack of the Real (2/7/2017)
  • We Must Now Become a Media Weapon of Disinformation (1/16/2017)
  • The Museum of the Post Real (12/21/2016)
  • The Minister of Post-Truth (12/5/2016)
  • The Death of Reality (11/25/2016)
  • The Transition (11/19/2016)
  • Truth is Stranger Than Fiction (11/12/2016)
  • President TRUMP: Only in the Post Reality (11/9/2016)
  • Political Discourse and its Malcontents (11/4/2016)
  • Far, far, far Beyond the Suspension of Disbelief (8/31/2016)
  • Episodic Drama of the Real Delegates of Cleveland (7/22/2016)
  • Revolution from the Golf Links (6/25/2016)
  • Disruption of the Broadcast (4/22/2016)
  • Living in a Make Believe World (3/26/2016)

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