We’re facing a radical paradigm shift.
Where the book had a physical boundary, the book is open, the book is closed; it is read or abandoned, today the book has become alive, it moves ceaselessly, the story is one, is multiple, depending on the number of players. You’re absorbed in it, and it’s hard to get out. It’s new, and we’re going to have to adapt. This is the metaverse:
“Mirror, oh my beautiful mirror, tell me who’s the most beautiful, the most attractive, the most hip, the most…” goes the most narcissistic modern anti-hero. Julien, the new character in Nathan Devers’ novel Les Liens artificiels (Albin Michel), is the kind of character nobody wants to be: a failed anonymous who tries to remake himself, rather cowardly but not without success, in the Metaverse. After Ciel et Terre (Flammarion, 2020 – Prix Edmée de la Rochefoucauld) and Espace fumeurs (Grasset, 2021), young writer Nathan Devers depicts the unbridled quest for pleasure of an unremarkable young man in the virtual paradise of Metaverse.”
Source: “Les Liens artificiels” by Nathan Devers, a dream life in the Metaverse.
https://www.letemps.ch/culture/livres/liens-artificiels-nathan-devers-une-vie-revee-metavers
https://www.decitre.fr/livres/les-liens-artificiels-9782226475053.html
Metavers and its prequels, video games, are the equivalent of reading books in high doses. It’s the difference between tobacco and drugs, or occasional wine and full-blown alcoholism. And especially if you have wounds to heal, it’s a drug that can gangrene the whole individual. It’s all a question of dosage.
Full article: https://cursus.edu/en/28642/the-great-schisms-and-the-scarcity-of-books
