The social ontology of the Metaverse

著者はCambridgeの社会学者

なんかシンプルに読みづらい英文だな

そもそもsocial ontologyとは

These developments need to be seen as continuous with the intoxicating lure of the (phone/computer/television) screen and the conditions under which immersion comes to be alluring for the first place

この連続的に捉えるの、採用したい

The inevitably with which questions about the ‘human’ emerge when we subject the normative claims about the metaverse to any level of analysis mean these debates intersect in interesting ways with the conflict between neo-humanism, transhumanism and posthumanism (see also postdigital humans).

まさにじゃん

I share his scepticism about the possibility of a good life within the Metaverse on roughly similar theoretical grounds. To live well is a relationship we cultivate with the world rather than a subjective feeling of wellbeing. Are what Archer and Donati call relational goods possible within the Metaverse? Can we build trust with others and work together?

このscepticismの基礎付けを整理したい

relational goods

他人との交流によってのみ生まれ消費される財のこと

問題意識

If we’re leaving neoliberalism and entering something worse the disruption of the last 2 years should be seen as a foreshadowing of future upheaval rather than an exception to the norm.

物理的realityがそれ以外のrealityより良いと思っているのは少数

バーチャルなものをinferior/逃亡先/dystopianと捉えているのはその少数のpriviledgeだ、という主張

The Reality Privileged, of course, call this conclusion dystopian, and demand that we prioritize improvements in reality over improvements in virtuality. To which I say: reality has had 5,000 years to get good, and is clearly still woefully lacking for most people; I don’t think we should wait another 5,000 years to see if it eventually closes the gap. We should build — and we are building — online worlds that make life and work and love wonderful for everyone, no matter what level of reality deprivation they find themselves in.

筆者:

いやそうはいってもdystopianだろ、

This is why I find Sacasas’s approach so valuable in beginning to interrogate the possibility for a good life within the metaverse, the technological conditions which frustrate it and what this reflects about the nature of human beings.

The inevitably with which questions about the ‘human’ emerge when we subject the normative claims about the metaverse to any level of analysis mean these debates intersect in interesting ways with the conflict between neo-humanism, transhumanism and posthumanism (see also postdigital humans). I don’t usually find Braidotti an interesting thinker but I’m genuinely fascinated to see how she responds to the idea of the Metaverse.

"metaverse"の規範的議論をすると、人のあり方の議論とも絡まってくるでと言っている

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