About a year ago was a story in the news about a South Korean young couple that got so addicted to gaming at this 24 hour gaming room that they neglected their own baby until it died- devastating (see story). A DivergentConvergence contributor did these paintings in response to that story and "to show how something that can be fun (I personally enjoyed Nintendo as a kid- though the time I was allowed to play was limited) can turn into something dangerous if the market is simply based on a hedonistic sense of supply and demand. This seems congruous to neo-liberal thought and liberal expansion. If the "globalization" that we are experiencing today isn't kept in check, and there isn't a greater sense of duty to the community (individualism) to guide our actions, where does this leave us in our search for morality, responsibility and respect for our surroundings?"
And to further challenge the thought process, Slavoj Zizek helps us to understand the complexities our post-modern virtual reality and real virtual experiences, and their relationship to universalism, capitalism, and the neo-liberal paradigm. I'm just posting parts 2 and 3, but please watch all 5!
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