# condensed ballardian visual retro computing novel status: underway https://robert-what.itch.io/condensed-ballardian-visual-retro-computing-novel imagine a 'condensed ballardian visual retro computing novel' as assembled for internal subject lab testing use via the parallax corporation ![[condensed-ballardian-visual-retro-computing-novel-robert-what.jpg|600]] potential candidates viewing these images at high speeds through ir attached headsets are instructed to ask themselves the following questions **+** what is my current ongoing relationship with technology **+** what are the (/historical) links between industry-wide misogyny and technological mass acceptance **+** how does baudrillard's 'charm of the real' overlap with the retro computing aesthetic **+** what is it about infinitely boring male nerds o' whiteness and the technological impulse / will-to-tech **+** to what extent is the accidental humor contained within some of these images the result of modern up-to-date socially progressive (enabled) skepticism **+** precisely how and to what extent do such images portray a technologically utopian future - or are they simply hopelessly naive **+** science lurks in the background of these images; what do you consider the (then) current model of social scientific understanding which ideologically underpins them **+** what is my general mostly unconscious psycho-aesthetic response to this test **+** to what extent do i feel physically unsafe and-or unwell while viewing such images **+** the straps on this chair are a bit tight can someone please loosen them **+** how might technology itself seem a virtual simulation of (/capitalist hyper-)reality images via byte magazine - 1620 x 2160 // republic of bob