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The Artificial Insemination of Reality

More than in living life, we believe in a reality. Authenticity is replaced by the symbolic power of the virtual and we are incapable of noticing that illusion. The representation of the virtual and not of the real is what we could call “generation of reality”. 


/ Andres Tapia-Urzua
The Artificial Insemination of Reality
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