Jun Haeng Lee
What does it mean to exist at the edge of a system’s attention?
The platform is the observer. When the algorithm were to retrieve, circulate, and engage with the users’ content, it does not abandon already existing content but withdraws their attention. In participatory universe theory, observation is not passive reception but a constitutive act. When existence loses their observer, it is unable to be concluded or defined. It remains in superposition. This is a multiple simultaneous condition, not entirely fixed.
Cache sits in the threshold of a system’s eyes. It is present enough to be stored, but indeterminate enough to never be claimed. Cache: Existing in the Threshold situates the concept of existence at this boundary. It is not outside the system, not fully within it, but held at the edge of what the platform’s observational act is willing to be part of.