{"id":611,"date":"2026-08-08T08:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/?page_id=611"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:49:00","slug":"emergent-worlds-simulation-worlding-and-xenoreality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/?page_id=611","title":{"rendered":"Emergent Worlds \u2013 Simulation, worlding and xenoreality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tam\u00e1s P\u00e1ll<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Year
<\/strong> 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor
<\/strong>Margarete Jahrmann<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This research addresses how performative, cooperative and simulated world building can be used as a mode of collective organising and a tool of cooperation to create alternative narratives of the dominant reality-system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research aims to link theory and practice by combining new materialism, gothic materialism, prefigurative tactics with live role-playing, game design, simulation and performative theory fiction in order to create new modes of cooperation and to imagine xenofuturities that fall outside of the scope of the futures industry <\/a>[1]. With alternative modes of organisation enmeshed with symbiotic world building performers and players develop and transform narratives and game mechanics. In this fictional sandbox environment social and economic flows and rules that drives our present reality can be overwritten by the participants, thus experimental relationships can grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating new collective experiences based on performative simulation can constitute experimental comradeship [2]<\/a> . Symbiotic world-building and game mechanics can be used as tools to reclaim collective imagineering of alternative futures, a cooperative practice that is disabled in late capitalism and westernized societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1] <\/a>Kodwo Eshun defines the \u201cfutures industry\u201d as the intersecting industries of technoscience, fictional media, technological projection, and market prediction in his paper \u201cFurther Considerations on Afrofuturism\u201d The New Centennial Review, Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2003, pp. 287-302 (Article), Michigan State University Press, https:\/\/www.kit.ntnu.no\/sites\/www.kit.ntnu.no\/files\/KodwoEshun_Afrofuturism_0.pdf<\/a>
He elaborates on the \u201cfutures industry\u201d later in his talk at the conference \u201cNarratives of a near future\u201d and defines these processes that \u201call seek to extract, mine and trade on the future\u2026 they gear planetary processes towards their preferred future, they are predatory futures, hostile futurities and complicit futurisms\u201d Kodwo Eshun at \u201cNarratives of a Near Future\u201d, New Campus HEAD, Geneve, CH on 14th December 2017 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BzlYCYS72fk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2] <\/a>Mark Fisher writes on \u201cthe construction of a new and surprising world, not the preservation of identities shaped and distorted by capital\u201d in his essay \u201cExiting the Vampire Castle\u201d (2013), and suggests to learn and re-learn how to build comradery as a strategy to dismantle \u201cthe bourgeois modes of subjectivity\u201d and to build \u201ca new universality starts to build itself. https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/opendemocracyuk\/exiting-vampire-castle\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tam\u00e1s P\u00e1ll Year 2020 SupervisorMargarete Jahrmann This research addresses how performative, cooperative and simulated world building can be used as a mode of collective organising and a tool of cooperation to create alternative narratives of the dominant reality-system. The research aims to link theory and practice by combining new materialism, gothic materialism, prefigurative tactics with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-611","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611\/revisions\/613"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}