Rhizome Experiment, Fall 2015

Simulation Machine

The simulation machine creates the virtuality from the reality and tries to produce realness in the virtual space. Social norms are being altered to adapt breakdowns of original social rules caused by the difference between the virtual and the real. Karl Marx, in The Fragment of Machines, pointed out that labor is fragmented and organized around the demands of machine to adapt the new form of time and space created by the machine. Similarly, intellectual labor is also fragmented around the demands of the simulation machine to adapt the new social rules and differences. These new social norms, which recognize the intersection between the real and the virtual, are breaking down people’s distinct understandings of virtuality and reality and blurring the boundary between them.

The breakdown of the difference between virtuality and reality is developed through the following process:
  • Simulation, as a techne to represent reality in the virtual space, brings in a new system of representation for people to perceive different objects in the world, both in real and in virtual. The fragmentation of people’s perceptions eventually caused the fragmentation of people’s intellectual labor around the simulation machine and the interaction between the virtual world and the real world.
The experience people gain from being in reality and immersed in virtuality essentially fragments the identity of people through the interaction between the two worlds. The simulation machine is changing and creating new social norms in the time-space framework inside both the real world and the virtual world and making people adapt themselves to the new rules created by the intersection of the virtual and the real. In contrary, the fragments of intellectual labor also bring virtuality and reality closer together and gradually erasing the boundary between them.





 


 

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