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The Purpose
World Of Awe Chapter 1: Forever is a collection of love letters to a
different nameless figure, who is frequently referred to as "beloved".
These letters in the work express the Traveler's worries, highlighting
a greater societal oddity in which the Traveler's past residence in
New York stops them from projecting liberal illusions of vitalization
onto the Desert, despite the fact that their main purpose is temporary
relief.
In short, Sunset/Sunrise as the Desert shocks the narrator with the
excesses of living outside of conventional economies, social norms,
and financial flows that are centered by the close relationship they
formerly shared. They are left with a double-binding, ultimately
meaningless self-determination since they lack the capacity for social
communication and interaction yet have an excess of individual
personality. Technology determines its own complex ontology in a
similar way, frequently by projecting onto an imagined emptiness like
the Desert that requires its own usage. In Chapter 1 of World of Awe,
Kanarek illustrates how modernity's pathological fixation with
extraction, vitality, and extinction makes Sunset/Sunrise seem like a
realistic future through the feedback loop of the lone narrator and
electrically linked trails and deserts.
Anthony's thoughts
Going through Yael Kanarek's work, World of Awe: The Traveler's Journal, was neat. Originally, Kanarek's piece was built to showcase the author's current knowledge of web design. I feel as if adding a story element to the work with hidden interactions ties the piece together to help convey Kanarek's overall message of the work. Yael Kanarek's work introduces early explorations with animation, interaction, virtual/physical feedback loops, narrative, and digital picture creation. It represents some of the concepts and issues we debated in the middle of the 1990s.
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