Add new comment

I'm talking about Situationist international, not contextualism.

A better example of this comes from a game called Darkwood.

Generally speaking, structuralism does not depend on the individual rational subject, especially in the sense of Althusser and Lacan. Even if Chomsky agrees with Descartes, it is only an illusion, because for structuralism, structure is decisive. I think the big tree in Darkwood is a perfect metaphor for structuralism. It does not rely on a particular ruler to exercise power, but on grammar, algorithms, and the rules of centralization - although sometimes it appears to be decentralized. But this leads to a situation in which the structure, in order to maintain its own existence, makes our life desertification.

In Darkwood, big trees drive residents inside in order to grow. But this is done by making the environment worse. Just like our pandemic and Internet environment, people are changing and attacking each other in such a structure. In order to pursue comfort and comfort, they prefer to be hypnotized by big trees. An environment will not deteriorate for no reason. It serves a structure. This tree provides residents with dreams (like the matrix) in exchange for a kind of "governance".

There is no doubt that utopianism conspiring with logos is such a dream. In this dream, the power of the final judgment goes straight in. Outside this dream, our lives are desertified, our movements are impoverished, and the social environment is further deteriorated (police, swindlers, mafia). This is to drive people into a governance system, and then the structure will last forever. It makes our society a hell.

Now people who don't understand this are just pretending they can't wake up. But what does it mean to wake up from such a dream? Does this mean that we should accept a kind of Soviet realism? On the contrary, only when we transcend rationalism and "descend" to heterotopia can we feel the perishability of life and rediscover ourselves in front of the mirror of Utopia.