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Asteroids, Holoblack and Clearance Futurism.
- Source :
- British Journal of Aesthetics; Jul2022, Vol. 62 Issue 3, p405-418, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- In this paper, I argue that the video game Asteroids ' enduring appeal turns on its ability to be read as futurist text. I connect Asteroids ' black and white aesthetic to the phenomenologist Vivian Sobchack's notion of postfuturism. Central to postfuturism is a change from representations of space as deep to representations of space as surface, incapable of concealment. I consider materials designed to absorb almost all visible light—which I call holoblacks—as pushing past representations of space as surface into a paradigm of non-representation of space or space as non-representation. I argue that this non-representation is what is meant by Martin Heidegger in the concept of a thing. I therefore offer an interpretation of Heidegger's Lichtung , or clearing, in which holoblacks act as a vehicle for the gathering, disclosure and nearing of world which I call 'clearance futurism'. I conclude by reading Asteroids as a clearance futurist text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ASTEROIDS
AESTHETICS
FUTURISM in music
VEHICLES
TRANSPORTATION
SOLAR system
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00070904
- Volume :
- 62
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Aesthetics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159753733
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayab064