Handsome word, EXIT.
EXIT is a sleeping no-piece tuxedo: a row of accessories starting with a brick top hat, or a comb, and ending with a fixed cane.
Willie Winkler named his VR exoskeleton, with flexible vertebrae and second-skin leather, an EXIT SUIT.
EXIT is a costume for Out, but it’s a reminder that we’re In.
I imagine ending a reality by treating its buttons like snaps, a dramatic exit, a wasteful flourish.
But these are just the fantasies of the awaited journey and its impending end.
This is REALLY interesting.
ReplyDeleteI like thinking about its (accidental?) allusion to Sartre's play _No Exit_ . . . its possible relationship to Cronenberg . . . and what this might mean for our own fashion/getting dressed theorizing. Kat texted me that she went down a rabbit hole re: a USDA study of "fashion" (??!!!) and then I found this: "On average, every man, woman, and child in the United States spent $1,101.52 to buy 69.1 pieces of clothing in 2021." Holy fuck. That's apocalyptic.
I'm terrified of but interested in the new flesh, here: how bodies will have experiences that need not destroy the earth/or that, more likely, it'll be destroyed and the new flesh will offer an escape.
https://roberttyree.wordpress.com/work-2/lemur/lemur-study/