Examining the Influence of the Virtual: Oscillating the Flatline—Technogothic Readings of Oxenfree
摘要
This chapter interrogates digital aesthetics through an analysis of Oxenfree. Using a technogothic framework, it examines how virtual space stages the temporal and affective structures of immediate modernity: glitch, repetition, and spectral doubling. Drawing from Mark Fisher’s hauntology and Sadie Plant’s cyberfeminism, it reads the digital as a haunted terrain: one in which narrative, selfhood, and time loop without resolution. The flatline emerges as both aesthetic and ontological metaphor: an image of stasis under the illusion of movement, engagement, and distractive control.