TITLE
Pentiment And The Age Of Misinformation
AUTHOR
Andrei Filote
PUBLICATION
VGBees
YEAR
2024
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
From the old world comes a heritage of beauty and a heritage of hate, and on us falls the reckoning. Every age creates the next, pictographed in bloody definition, as the mother births the child, who must be washed clean of the mother’s blood and shit. Living history surrounds us; we are making its monuments. In the past this could take the form of a gothic cathedral, its heights a symbol of the heights of god and church, its marble dug out of a Roman quarry. Today it might be a tower of steel and glass, where businessmen decide what newspaper gets the ax.Modernity understands that a monument is an antenna, an information medium. Indeed, we’re more aware of information and its effects than probably any audience since the Reformation, when the printing press accessed a public opinion outside the purchase of authority. Pentiment speaks to our present time of social media and data science through that past world of nascent revolution, choosing as its setting the fictional town of Tassing.
GAMES MENTIONED
Pentiment