Aloha,
I awoke this morning to a cable news announcement that a company is
close to introducing a 3D printer for food.
I realized that many/most of the obstacles/differences that apply to
F2F vs. remote, meatspace vs. virtual, and such are being removed/
fading away as technological change upon technological change wash
over us. If a constellation of practitioners can 3D print cakes and wine
and co-manipulate them via remote devices (or be co-manipulated via
devices), then. clearly, magical affairs have changed/are changing.
What I am re-discovering, honestly, is that conclusions and opinions
about cyber-magic (in the boadest sense) that I held appropriate in
circumstances of 10-15 years ago are no longer appropriate. Then,
one Craft Trad I'm affiliated with was trying to work out issues like
those moog discussed in his post.
I'd describe them today as involving matters of sacrality achieved by
remote means and in remote situations. The conclusion then amounted
to a sense that such was difficult and therefore unlikely. So, stick to
F2F.
So much so that one faction of the Trad more or less took itself entirely
into F2F and left the other faction stunned.
But that appears no longer to be the case.
Because folks have gone ahead and created cyber-magic while I was
doing other things. And that change in and around technology has
enabled vectors of change for magical affairs and occulture that did
not even exist 10-15 years ago.
That strikes me as, among other things, exciting vis a vis the study
of occulture and magical affairs. Thanx for all the tips, hints, nudges,
suggestions, and trail breaking research!
Musing Change! I Thought It Would Be Different! Rose,
Pitch
so cyber behind he never ever imagined 3D printed cakes and wine
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