Unlocked | NM56 The Para-Real w/ Cade Diehm of New Design Congress

Digital design theorist CADE DIEHM joins NM to discuss his new
paper, “The Para-Real: A Manifesto” (published via C/O Berlin and
New Design Congress), which gives language to a zone that’s become
increasingly prevalent as digital spaces merge into continuous
territories. The Para-Real is not the “metaverse,” Cade argues, but
a fertile, momentary form of consciousness where the physical
here-and-now falls away. We discuss what this state produces in
users and speculate on nth order effects as the Para-Real scales.
For more: Cade Diehm is founder of The New Design Congress, an
international research organization forging a nuanced understanding
of technology's role as a social, political and environmental
accelerant. Cade’s personal work can be accessed via
https://shiba.computer.