The Vi
oh wow you did a lot. Amazing work!
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- Dec 2023
- Sep 2023
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Walking through a rhizome one enacts a story of wandering, of being enticed in conflicting directions, of remaining always open to surprise, of feeling helpless to orient oneself or to find an exit, but the story is also oddly reassuring
Similar to the highlighted section below, I find this fascinating because a few pixels on a screen lets us enter a completely different world that has just as much control on our emotions as the real world.
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As we navigate its tangled, anxiety-laden paths, enclosed within its shape-fitting borders, we are both the exasperated parent longing for closure and separation and the enthralled child, lingering forever in an unfolding process that is deeply comforting because it can never end.
This section is interesting in the sense that when we interact with this type of media we aren't one person, but rather we become the different people in the text. Made me think of the game we played last week where we could see through the eyes of the girl struggling with depression but we were also living out the role of anxiety.
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