Real Virtuality: Creating the next normal with the crutches of technology
Real Virtuality: Creating the next normal with the crutches of technology
We are blaming it on the virus. But it seems, in hindsight, as if we were anticipating this moment in time, when we could be forced to withdraw from other fellow beings. The proof is the technologies and devices we invented. On the surface, they may have seemed to be about more sociability, but it was always harbouring its invisible other, the asociability of it all.
Yogetsu Akasaka, a Japanese musician and Buddhist monk, presenting a livestream beatboxing performance at his home in Tokyo. Akasaka has become a viral phenomenon with musical tracks marrying religious chanting with beatboxing, with his Heart Sutra Looping Remix being viewed on YouTube many million times since it was posted last May