terminal connection is a metaphor for doomscrolling. You fly a plane. Stay close to surfaces to keep your engine running as hyperreal landscapes flood your senses.
You find yourself in a cozy airplane hanger, seated in a cockpit. As you attempt to start your flight, a glowing cave fades in around you. You go through the standard flight checks, testing your controls, and begin to glitch through overwhelming and disorienting spaces. Terms and conditions fly by you, the love you've never had is advertised – demanded – of you, your interests are weaponized in your workplace, and you're forced to see visceral vulnerability. Finally, space seems to collapse onto itself, threatening to overpower you, but you find yourself flying into a never-ending void. Will you end your terminal connection?
terminal connection is an observation of the resting state of capitalist-hyperreality. Capitalist-hyperreality is a phenomenon brought about by the exponential growth of hyperreal influen...
