Fun to listen in on these conversations. Thanks for posting. Virtualization also shows up in our lives through other media practices: take for example economic modeling, climate modeling, or the game theoretical approaches to conflict and war. The Vietnam War, many media scholars argue, was a virtualized war, from the way it was fought through remote sensing and remotely deployed weapons to the way it was broadcast on television. The “virtual” has already become a structure that structures structures.
Really good and interesting discussion, and on an increasingly important and worthwhile set of interconnected issues, thanks! Still, I felt like Patrick’s worries got a bit strawmaned (simplified, and hollowed out… Virtualized?) so that addressing them wasn’t enough to eliminate the underlying terror. You guys may need to do a part two where you let Patrick fully make the case before addressing the worry?
Fun to listen in on these conversations. Thanks for posting. Virtualization also shows up in our lives through other media practices: take for example economic modeling, climate modeling, or the game theoretical approaches to conflict and war. The Vietnam War, many media scholars argue, was a virtualized war, from the way it was fought through remote sensing and remotely deployed weapons to the way it was broadcast on television. The “virtual” has already become a structure that structures structures.
Maybe a question is, what processes of abstraction are not virtualizations?
Really good and interesting discussion, and on an increasingly important and worthwhile set of interconnected issues, thanks! Still, I felt like Patrick’s worries got a bit strawmaned (simplified, and hollowed out… Virtualized?) so that addressing them wasn’t enough to eliminate the underlying terror. You guys may need to do a part two where you let Patrick fully make the case before addressing the worry?