Charms of the Cynical Reason

257. ¿Telarañas digitales e hiperrealidad? Cavilaciones sobre ciberespacios, proto-cíborgs y realidades aumentadas en espacios públicos

“…Podría contribuir a que muchos campos del conocimiento, en especial los asociados al territorio y al paisaje, puedan explorar facetas inéditas vinculadas a la relación simultánea entre información hipermedial -el ciberespacio-cruzada en tiempo real con datos del mundo factual -espacio-. Desde otro ángulo la RA también podría ayudar a consolidar un mundo en el que la mayoría de la gente se vincule, aún más, al hiperconsumo de información 48 . en muchos casos poco relevante para su vida y su existencia.…”

The Soviet Writer Konstantin Vaginov: From Poetics to Subjectivity

“…Such, for example, is Mark Lipovetsky's notion of the "tricksterish" or "kynical" nature of the new Soviet person. 15 In his view, a citizen of the USSR did not hide behind "masks" in choosing an identity, but neither was he or she formed only by the dominant Bolshevik discourse. Being a trickster by nature, the individual possessed a multiplicity of social roles and self-identifications from the very start; the "I" of the new Soviet person reconstructed itself in accordance with the concrete situation in which he or she was placed.…”

“…16 Lipovetsky develops this thesis further: the abundance of tricksters in the culture of the USSR meant that every Soviet person felt himself to be a sort of Ostap Bender or a similarly fraudulent personage. 17 Hellbeck turns to the diary of the famous Soviet dramatist and a favorite of Joseph Stalin, Aleksandr Afinogenov, who, upon finding himself disgraced, attempted to encourage and strengthen Soviet self-consciousness in himself through an act of writing. 18 Although Hellbeck investigates Afinogenov's diary as an ego-document, a recent study has demonstrated that in Afinogenov's case practically no boundary exists between his diary and his literary texts.…”