The Derealisation

''If something is a real tool, it just sits there, waiting patiently. If something is not a tool, it asks you things, it seduces you, it manipulates you, it wants something from you. We have moved from a technological environment based on tools to a technological environment based on dependency and manipulation. This is what has changed, social networks are not tools waiting to be used, they have their own objectives and the means to pursue them using your psychology against you." - Tristan Harris in The Social Dilemma. ''Information is additive, not narrative. It can be counted but not told. Only narratives generate a sense of stability. The digital order is deprived of history and memory. It fragments life.'' - Byung-Chul Han in Non-Things, Upheaval in the Lifeworld. This series stems from an inspiring reading of the essay “Non-Things, Upheaval in the Lifeworld” by South Korean writer Byung-Chul Han. My intention is to make people reflect on a widely discussed topic: the often immoral use of screens, through a symbolic key that embodies those activities capable of rooting us in existence. These activities act like bookmarks in the book of life. Derealisation, the sense of emptiness due to the screen, is capable of closing this book, of making us lose all points of reference. The narrative of the object as a finite still point in the world of the real plays a central role in the series, the fleetingness and infinity of digital stimuli and information is enough to destabilise this real, to the point of turning it upside down.