First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, and Finally as LARP: Saturn in Aquarius and Capitol Hill
I consider the surreal and disturbing spectacle of the Capitol Hill siege from the broader perspective of our new Air Age, with its potential dissociation, uncanniness. and triumph of virtual realms.
“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the veracity of living phantoms, of wandering and simulating animals that capital, that the death of capital has made of us—because the desert of cities is equal to the desert of sand—the jungle…