Smile If You Dare by Ramzy Alwakeel

Author:Ramzy Alwakeel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Smile If You Dare
ISBN: 9781910924235
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2016-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

The word is “liberation.”

It’s making your way home on a Friday afternoon over impossible shimmering vistas, past giant spinning tops and through streams of tiny cubes that behave like shoals of fish.

It’s experiencing the sublime, staring up at giant Cold War structures that may or may not have the Pet Shop Boys’ profiles when viewed from a certain angle.

It’s turning into a cybernetic eagle, soaring over this unreal kingdom and headlong into the vanishing point.

Mark P. J. Wolf, analysing the abstract imagery of early video-games, quotes Wilhelm Worringer’s 1908 treatise Abstraction and Empathy and finds that, in fact, the Edwardian has a lot to say about Pac-Man.

But read a little closer and the Pet Shop Boys’ 1994 video for ‘Liberation’ seems to stare out of the page, too:

The urge to abstraction is the outcome of a greater inner unrest inspired in man by phenomena of the outside world; in a religious respect it corresponds to a strongly transcendental tinge to all notions.92

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