Synthesis of Eros and Hypnos. Eternal Sleep as Aesthetical Metanarration of Cyberculture
Synthesis of Eros and Hypnos. Eternal Sleep as Aesthetical Metanarration of Cyberculture

Summary/Abstract: The intention of this article is to present the thesis that the mode of being proper to users of cyberculture is eternal sleep. This thesis is based on an interpretation of Gilles Deleuze Difference and Repetition. It is shown that cyberculture as technical culture is anesthetizing user experience by indicating them the world of sleep. It is correlated with the synthesis of time, which is the synthesis of Eros and Hypnos. Here Hypnos functions as the ruler of aesthetic. So Deleuze’s theory of the three syntheses of time is extended but not in the form of an interpretation of Deleuze’s words but directly through technical mediation. Eternal sleep refers to the state which technically mediated Eros puts them in, giving them dreamlike aesthetic objects. At the end of this article it is shown how dreams are related to human spiritual experience and how this kind of experience could lead to waking up from the aesthetic metannarration of cyberculture imposed by the technically mediated synthesis of Eros and Hypnos.

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