The Myth of Faust inthe Post-Digital Age

Reading note

This work extends the Behind the Obvious series into a post-digital reflection, where technology is no longer a futuristic horizon but an environment already integrated into bodies and gazes. Abraham Aronovitch depicts the human figure within an intermediate space, suspended between tangible physical presence and disembodied mental projection.

Here, the traditional mirror becomes an ambiguous surface, functioning simultaneously as screen, threshold, and zone of loss. The contrast between the blue-toned body and the cosmic background establishes a silent tension, evoking a desire for transcendence through the virtual—one that no longer promises elevation, but a gradual dilution of identity. Through the motif of the VR headset and the digital double, the work questions the cost of our technological immersion: a renewed Faustian myth in which the soul fragments within the infinity of data.