a visually delicious post-human analogy.
here, the distinctions between self and other, human and non-human collapsed. nothing is singular or contained in the shimmer; everything is refracted, everything exists as one essentially. there are no origins, and ontology does not matter.
we are left with an unsettling ambiguity: whether the lena who returns is the same lena we know, or something altered, othered and beyond. again, single identity here disintegrates.
the shimmer is indeed dangerous and extraterrestrial, but it is also familiar in a way that it is both untouched and touched. it is both in death and alive. there is a possibility in this reality that containment can cease to exist, by — annihilation
personally not the biggest fan of the husband and wife trope but overall a great piece of science fiction! (me whenever i get to yap about post-humanism: •𐃷•)
a visually delicious post-human analogy.
here, the distinctions between self and other, human and non-human collapsed. nothing is singular or contained in the shimmer; everything is refracted, everything exists as one essentially. there are no origins, and ontology does not matter.
we are left with an unsettling ambiguity: whether the lena who returns is the same lena we know, or something altered, othered and beyond. again, single identity here disintegrates.
the shimmer is indeed dangerous and extraterrestrial, but it is also familiar in a way that it is both untouched and touched. it is both in death and alive. there is a possibility in this reality that containment can cease to exist, by — annihilation
personally not the biggest fan of the husband and wife trope but overall a great piece of science fiction! (me whenever i get to yap about post-humanism: •𐃷•)
