Digital fantasy proximity shrinks while material reach to it grows distant

Evidence

The space between representations of reality (fantasy) and reality shrinks as these images come closer to us (through our smartphone screens), yet at the same time swells as the resources with which we could reach out to those images become scanter. Thus, the new denizens of speculative communities “sediment” around imagined collectivities that transcend traditional class politics while often remaining anchored within national boundaries. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 101

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s framework of spectatorship and the gap between representation and access across financialized domains. — connects to: Popular music scenes depend on discrete physical spaces and temporal occasion that cyberspace erodes — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1264