The Oracle Machine

Authors

  • Eleonora Oreggia University of London, England

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/ictus.v10i2.34358

Abstract

The Oracle Machine is a research project and a work of art which focuses on decision making mechanisms in contemporary urban and globalised societies. The hypothesis is that there is a specific condition in post-industrial civilized territories, which can be described as lack of will, 'relapsing choice', or 'decision syndrome'. If on one side the globalised and technological world offers variety, fast communication and remote presence, on the other it weakens the relation between humans and natural environment, soothes instincts and induces disorientation, but also fragments identity in the continuous redefinition of perception and the conception of space and time. Lacan's definition of anxiety, described as the affect whose object is unknown, intersects with Heisenberg's 'Uncertainty Principle' (Heisenberg, 1925), which affirms there are no states in which a particle has both a define position and a definite momentum. When the condition of undecidability and that of anxiety are manifest, the unknown object can be interpreted as the very Self, objectified and dissipated in a number of concomitant possibilities.

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Author Biography

Eleonora Oreggia, University of London, England

Eleonora Oreggia is a media artist born in Milan and based in Amsterdam. She received a Master Degree with honor in Philosophy from the University of Bologna (DAMS), with a thesis in Semiotics of Art. She worked few years as editor and researcher at Netherlands Institute for Media Art (NIMK) in Amsterdam, and she is currently Researcher in Design at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and PhD in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Published

2010-09-14

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