Back in the old days before MySpace taught us all how to be specifically into one niche band no one else had ever heard of and/or Cobra Starship... (Personally I preferred Wolfgang the Robot)...
Back in the old days before a white wall became plastered with more advertising than friendship, and when people didn't yell at the computing cloud... (Which never was no cloud neither but a Baudrillard hyperreal remove of symbolic order, a 5th degree of simulacra)...[1]
Way back when the way we kept in touch, when not using AIM and MSN Messenger and Yahoo! messenger for suspect roleplays (look, I just wanted to play in the Ranma universe, insecure not ready to admit I wanted to be not Ranma nor a male self insert but Kodachi Kuno the only sane one in Furinkan™️)...
Way back then I kept, being too square for the goth version, a LiveJournal. Not yet having died.
And now, I am keeping one again, situations being what they are, blah blah, ich wahr hamlet-ophelia [the ophelia in the hamlet, or the Ophmlet]... [2]
Hwaet! [3] (So!) ...here you will find all the meandering, wandering, less composed & sometime more composed shoutings into the void of the internet in that old school style from your favorite do-everything-beagle [4].
Okay, second or third favorite.
--STL
[1] Baudrillard's theory of simulacra reaches its culmination in the fourth stage, where signs and symbols no longer refer to any reality and become purely self-referential. The concept of a fifth stage would extend this framework further, positing that simulations not only lack connection to reality but evolve into self-contained systems that operate independently of both the material world and their own symbolic origins. In this stage, constructs such as 'the cloud' would not only function as abstract representations but become perceived as autonomous realities that shape human behavior and thought without any awareness of their artificiality. This would suggest the ultimate dominance of the hyperreal, where simulations proliferate and interact with each other, constructing a self-generating reality that subsumes and replaces the original material and symbolic frameworks Baudrillard initially described
[2] The reference to "ich wahr hamlet-ophelia" and "Ophmlet" is an allusion to Heiner Müller’s Hamletmachine, a postmodern deconstruction of Shakespeare's Hamlet. In Hamletmachine, Müller collapses the identities of Hamlet and Ophelia, using them as symbols of existential crisis and political disillusionment. Ophelia's famous line, "I am Ophelia. The one the river didn’t keep," reflects a fragmentation of gender and identity, which is echoed in the blending of "Hamlet" and "Ophelia" here. The term "Ophmlet" furthers this collapse, suggesting a fusion of roles in a similarly disillusioned context.
[3] Here beginnith the tale of Beowulf. The best translation of which is by Maria Dahvana Headley and begins "Bro!"
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