The Dialectic
An attempt at bringing Hegel to the matter of re-entering physical reality. Physical reality as primacy provides the basis, Virtual Reality provides the Negation, and we hope for Flowerworld to become the Sublation.
Post-Digital Systems of Meaning
Death to Meatspace
The technologists of yore used the term "meatspace" to define a "fleshy meaty physical reality" as opposed to Cyberspace. If this is the frame we're understanding this problem we're fucked. Offline is the world where the flowers are — Flowerworld. You should see to waking up and seeing them.
Post-Digital
The solution is not simply denying the usage of technology. Luddism is either a philosophy of sticking one's head in the sand or putting forward an impractical ideal that can never be achieved. We don't need Anti-Digital attitudes — they're easy and lazy. We need Post-Digital Systems of Meaning.
Techno-Gnosticism
It'd be fair to ascribe the term "techno-gnostic" to many tech optimists — they believe reality is something presented to us false-ly (a la the Demiurge) and we must transcend it to achieve pure Digital Being (a la Gnosis). They have their faith, and I have mine. Fuck techno-gnosticism. Reality is beautiful. Gnosis is the mirage.
Hyperreality and Objet a
The trendy philosophies and psychoanalytic perspectives of the Europeans of the early 20th Century are typically used as a form of in-group intellect signalling. However, there is a great practical usefulness to these ideas — and I'm not afraid of perverting them to understand this problem with some more rigour.