I woke up this morning from a dream in which I had gotten lost in a part of the house (where I live) that had gotten disconnected from the rest of the building. I was wandering somewhere in what seemed like a large hotel or apartment complex looking for the rest of my home. When I woke up, I was happy to have found my way back, here to the real world. But it made me wonder what would happen if I hadn’t – if I had gotten lost in a dream world.<\/p>\n
Earlier I had dreamed of Sino-Russian cyber-virus agents taking over the internet and forcing the rest of us to live without it all again — a meme that CBS’s Katie Couric and other media outlets had placed in my head with coverage yesterday of the Conficker <\/a>worm, which supposedly hijacks computers in an attempt to create a global botnet<\/a>. Couric had talked about right-wing Russian youth behind it (or that’s what I remember); I probably added the Sino- part myself — a kind of unconscious remnant Orientalism, I guess.<\/p>\n Realizing it was April Fool’s Day today only made both of these weird dreams seem a bit more realistic and consensus reality seem more dreamlike. We live in\/on April Fool’s Day. Earth Day, Earth Hour (the “first globalized ritual,” as Stephen Bede Scharper <\/a>called it yesterday), April Fool’s Day, Earth Fools’ Hour — every hour, as the economy goes down and alternative dreams (the right-wing lunatic dreams of Glenn Beck <\/a>et al, the utopian Communist dreams of Zizek, Badiou, Ranciere<\/a>, et al, the green dreams of worldchangers<\/a>, sustainability transitionists<\/a>, and green Obamists<\/a>) float up like balls on a stormy sea… After the storm we will sift through them, relish what we’ve collected, and be glad to have found our way back here, back to shore, after a long weird dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I woke up this morning from a dream in which I had gotten lost in a part of the house (where I live) that had gotten disconnected from the rest of the building. I was wandering somewhere in what seemed like a large hotel or apartment complex looking for the rest of my home. 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