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ThatвЂ™s how I imagine Meta (Mark ZuckerbergвЂ™s new metaverse project) will be: a glowing, immersive karaoke of unfulfilled desires and personal failings, full of your friends whom you no longer see in real life anymore. Where someone who looks exactly like you, only better, falls in love with someone who looks just like your unrequited love. That might be the entertainment of tomorrow: going to the cinema and watching movies where all the characters are you. ItвЂ™s simple to place your own face onto othersвЂ™, onto found footage, video game characters, pornography, dance floors where everyone looks just like you. Anyone might be a clone.ДЇaces are changed and swapped with ease with a phone. We live in a slapstick, a Tintin adventure, an uncanny space of doubling and tripling, of smoke and mirrors and red herrings. Others have wondered who former president Trump was speaking to that HalloweвЂ™en, in the faceless black bodysuit? Was that his son in there? What happened to his piss tape from the Ritz? Did Jeffrey Epstein really die or was a pretend corpse brought out for the cameras? Does Travis Scott worship the devil? Was his album art inspired by old Netherlandish paintings of hell? Reality often is said to be glitching. There has been much speculation in certain quarters about whether there is one US president, or many interchangeable presidents and body doubles, or a sleepy, malfunctioning hologram whose hands appear to pass through solid objects. Now is a moment of masks and the hard-to-decipher. As critic Max Lakin noted, вЂњKanye performing at the Arnault kidвЂ™s wedding and being totally indecipherable because of his extended meditation on identity is very funnyвЂќ. Since then, Kanye West has gone a step further, dressing in an oversised Stop Making SenseвЂ“era David Byrne suit and Roman theatre mask and singing a dreadful version of вЂњRunawayвЂќ at a society wedding in Venice. Last monthвЂ™s column left off with two pop stars pointing towards two different paths: to embrace cybernetic posthumanity, or destroy oneвЂ™s identity. Have we blown past the point of Peak Identity? Continuing on the heels of last monthвЂ™s column, Dean Kissick considers howВ memes and masks have superseded the performance of the self.

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