ABSTRACT
Simulated reality plagues contemporary neoliberal capitalism, from film to fashion, video games to educational experiences, conceptions of truth to identity politics. Any movement that a neoliberal subject experiences is filtered through the dominating logics of the market and through an entrepreneurial self, an imaginative and creative self, becoming persona non grata. For that old Christian tale, humanity is doomed from the beginning, “for the imagination of man’s heart evil from his youth”. Humanity seeks to only reproduce what has come before, trying to fit dated practices onto new formations and then decries failure once the dated forms are exposed for the fallacies they are. The moment of destruction lifts the veils from the old world like curtains on a stage; the other world lies not beyond the stage in a heavenly experience, but instead through a politics of engagement with the reality.
