Mediatic Messianism
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Condiționări inevitabile Nu e nicio noutate faptul că suntem ființe dominate de apetența pentru suprafață – ne preocupă mai degrabă luciul epidermei decât gândirea și identitatea sinelui, coaja e mai ușor de atins și de văzut decât un miez pentru care trebuie să depui efort ca să-l descoperi, cochilia e îndestulătoare pentru o siguranță exilată
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What do Led Zeppelin, Kill Bill, Star Wars, Avatar, and Macintosh have in common? Creativity or a myth of innovation? “Remixing is a folk art but the techniques are the same ones used at any level of creation: copy, transform, and combine. You could even say that everything is a remix.” (Kirby Ferguson) Part 1:
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The death of a culture begins when its normative institutions fail to communicate ideals in ways that remain inwardly compelling… At the breaking point, a culture can no longer maintain itself as an established span of moral demands. Its jurisdiction contracts; it demands less, permits more. Bread and circuses become confused with right and duty. Spectacle
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We had the experience, but missed the meaning. (T. S. Eliot) The old production-oriented culture demanded what the historian Warren Susman termed character. The new consumption-oriented culture demands what he called personality. The shift in values is a shift from a fixed morality to the artifice of presentation. The old cultural values of thrift and
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If people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will then believe in nothing, it’s that they’ll believe anything.(C. S. Lewis) What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive
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