Underground Eye

What is presence?

When the seam between inner and outer reality loosens, the terrain is no longer “out there”  -  it is what forms between us. In that space, memory and sensation, dream and infrastructure, act as equal forces.

Inspired by the series "I Saw the TV Glow" and Eduardo Kohn’s book "How Forests Think", I built the simplest possible environment for this dissolution. Not through graphics that keep the world “out there”, but through text that seeps into perception, making inner and outer co-produce the field of play.

Here, the player’s world and the game’s world are not separate domains but threads in the same weave. Every move is a re-knotting  -  unfastening inherited patterns of meaning and tying new ones to other centers, other calendars, other ways of inhabiting time.

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symbolic reality (the link between phenomenon and symbol, the “coding”) is presented as the condition of normal neurotic life. The psychotic is the one who does not possess this “installation.” The symbolic father here is conceived as a fundamental structure.

Preciado radically critiques precisely this figure of the symbolic. For him, Lacan’s “law of the father” and the very idea of the symbolic order function as a mechanism of exclusion. He shows how psychoanalysis reproduces patriarchal power by demanding that the subject accept the binary coding of sex and sexuality. What  describes as a “lack of access to the shared semantic space,” Preciado can instead be read as a refusal to submit to the normative grid of power.

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