SPECTACULAR OPTICAL: The Millennium of The End

'...I shall call this the stereophonic effect. We are all obsessed with high fidelity, with the quality of musical 'reproduction'. At the consoles of our stereos, armed with our tuners, amplifiers and speakers, we mix, adjust settings, multiply tracks in pursuit of a flawless sound. Is this still music? Where is the high fidelity threshold beyond which music disappears as such? It does not disappear for lack of music, but because it has passed this limit point; it disappears into the perfection of its materiality, into its own special effect. Beyond this point, there is neither judgement nor aesthetic pleasure. It is the ecstasy of musicality and its end...'

Jean Baudrillard, The Illusion of the End

Yet another 'open forum' for dissemination of ideas... The word 'platform' ('Turkish' for forum, ground, a place to discuss) does justice to the situation, aiming at a proliferation of 'platforms' on demand, ultimately giving way to one's own, individual platform, a ground for final contemplation. If God has disappeared through his materiality, behind the ceiling of the chapel, through welfare and its virtue, and on the West Banks of the Gaza Strip, he is once more to be resurrected as the universal consciousness, as that all-knowing virtuality, namely, the web. It is there that we shall face the cosmic intelligence, where all that is solid melts into...

In a special geography, split in between the personalities and in between the two windows (one: virtual - ie. a window onto Kustepe/İstanbul; the other: real - the screen) the fusion/confusion is complete. But, yet again, pumping more into this saturated system is expected to reverse the flow of chemistry, to once more make everything crystal-clear for all: a kind of revelation in cyberspace. This is what Spectacular Optical is for....