The unprecedented convergence of the digital and real in our times leaves us with a disconcerting uncertainty. Its menacing disorientation is pervasive. Our constant addiction to screens has flattened our perception of space; it has irrevocably altered our visual experience. In our society, screens have become magical tools used by ‘augurers and haruspices’ or those who read omens in the stars, flights of birds and the entrails of animals, uncovering guilt and foreseeing the future. Through screens, we navigate the netherworld of imaginations. They have become our magic mirrors; we have formed a Faustian pact with the digital world.
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