Toward a Minor Tech:Teodora-500
Rendering Minor Worlds
Critical renderings of alternative virtual imaginaries are increasingly emerging as a form of collective utterance, addressing the current states of emergency that we find ourselves in socially, politically, ecologically and technologically. The recent crystallization of immersive worlding as an experiential storytelling practice situates itself within the political context of resistance and being-otherwise
Kafka writes of literature that it should “affect us like a disaster, that grieves us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone” (1904) - he firmly believes in the transformative power of
Similarly to the properties of a minor language formulated by Deleuze and Guattari in their analysis of Kafka’s writing (1975), today’s turn towards the production of immersive worlds as sites of alternative possibilities is deterritorializing the existing entertainment-centric and economically-driven mode of existence of immersive game productions. Within the parameters of the game engine itself, the various functionalities, interfaces and xxx of mainstream game design software are geared towards
When the majority language of the game engine is deployed into the minor territories of experiment and social critique,
Whilst Kafka conceptualizes this within the context of literature, - a majority language needs to be learned by the minority, whom deploys its syntax, rules and parameters for its experimental and .
Beyond critiquing our contemporary context and making visible possible alternatives, these worlds also create networked experiences that foreground other ways of knowing / navigating and being-in-the-world.
Allows for experimental readings - betworked - maps - a question emerges
they push beyond the transformation of given content into the appropriate form expected of major literature and into the territory of minor literature where experimental and non-linear formats that “speak first and only conceive afterwards” (), existing in networked, multi-faceted and emergent states