Mediatic Messianism
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What does the contemporary self want? The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge — broadband tipping the Web from text to image, social-networking sites spreading the mesh of interconnection ever wider — the two cultures betray a common impulse. Celebrity and connectivity are
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Now the death of God combined with the perfection of the image has brought us to a whole new state of expectation. We are the image. We are the viewer and the viewed. There is no other distracting presence. And the image has all the Godly powers. It kills at will. Kills effortlessly. Kills beautifully.
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I think Oprah is John the Baptist, leading the way for Obama to win. Iowa voter Nu am să uit niciodată atmosfera Surprizelor lui Andreea Marin. Diabetul discursiv, vocea și gestica pseudo-angelică a prezentatoarei, dramaturgia simulacrului de suspans, cromatica glamuroasă, alunecarea erotică a camerei de filmat pe îmbrățișările și lacrimile ce parcă dădeau organicitate și
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technological fascination and totalitarianism, wired imagination, mass-optimism, individual depression, cheerful innovation, obsessive repetition, glamorous manipulation, lazy ecstasy and desires, neurotic nightmares, transparency, surface, serial multiplication, the Internet realm, all possible universes, digital jungle, new aesthetics, democratic access, corporate control, proletarian images and sounds, design addiction, virtual hope, real hate, unstable confidence, hyper-transparent love, on-line parenting,
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We are online, but are we in touch? Mark Zuckerberg promotes Facebook as helping to create a more open and connected world. Openness for Zuckerberg is about “more transparency, being able to share things and have a voice in the world,” while connection is “helping people to stay in touch and maintain empathy for each
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