“There is, however, also a completely different answer to the question about our distrust regarding alternative worlds. It is based on the fact that they are worlds that we ourselves have designed, rather than something that has been given to us, like the surrounding world. The alternative worlds are not givens (data), but artificially produced (facts). We distrust these worlds because we distrust all things artificial, all art. “Art” is beautiful, but a lie, something that is implied in the term “apparition.” However this answer also leads to a further question: why does the apparition deceive? Is there anything that does not deceive? This is the decisive question, the epistemological question, which the alternative worlds pose for us. If we talk about the “digital apparition,” this and no other question has to be addressed.”
Flusser, Vilém. “Digital Apparition”. In Druckrey, Timothy. Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation. Aperture, 1996. 242
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Instead of deception, art re-interprets. This is merely a simple comparison between language as a written text in the dictionary and the people that speak and relay it.
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