Playing with recollections : symrealism and the vanishing of history

This article details a peculiar model of digital realism, which full­est expression can be found in first-person computer games. The peculiarity of this new realism stems from the fact that, as a response to the revolutionary perception of the reality of someone who uses numerous simulation technologies on a day-to-day basis, it dispenses with giving thought to the objectively existing world. In games like "Assassin’s Creed" or "Soma", the real is associated with the materiality of the simulator / interface. The “simulated realism” aesthetic is, how­ever, even more interesting from an epistemological perspective - as it turns out, in this framework, “factual” history cannot be represented at all. The past seen through a simulator shrinks to a virtual, uncer­tain, and individual memory