Icons

Something that stands for something else, but isn’t the thing it stands for.

E.g.: The term “Andrew Tate” stands, at this point in time, for two distinct things: the “Andrew Tate” character, or persona, in the public imagination and the man named “Emory Andrew Tate III”.

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March 6, 2023

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Virtualism A state in which things (objects, people) are parsed primarily as Icons. Be it for their political implications, or as props/background for content Black-box thinking or doing Exclusively thinking with signifiers (labels, icons, memes). No parts, thus no affordances, thus ultimately unsustainable. Effectively, the

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