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25 Nov 12
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As representations grow in variety, sophistication, and intensity, they create what he calls a “psychic sauna” of experiences, sensations, and options that we glide over the surface of, like “a little god, dipping in here and there. . . .”
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technological advancements make it harder and harder to even tell the difference between the two.
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the sheer increase in the volume of media vying for one's attention, leads to adaptations in the psychic life of the human being
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Because individuals can only register a certain amount of information in any given moment, the bombardment of media images gives rise to defense mechanisms such as apathy and indifference
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Another consequence of growing up in a world of mediation, of always feeding on the “irresistible flattery that goes with being incessantly addressed” by representations, is that one becomes spoiled
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“Twilight of the Heroes in a Teenage World,”
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De Zengotita files all the various phenomena and effects of mediation under what he calls “the Blob,”
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And how is the moment of its victory marked? By your indifference. That's the signal to move on, the signal for the Next Thing to appear. That's when the original of the real thing has been fully mediated. It becomes representational, and that means optional.”
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you are a perpetual motion machine of self-reflexivity and inauthenticity
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we're all method actors coddled by a pervasive Blob of virtual reality,
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We are living in a world on the brink of disaster on every level—environmental, political, humanitarian. Perhaps the worst effect of mediation, indeed the luxury of mediation for those of us who have the ability to author our own beings, is that it has become the insulation protecting us from the extremity of our privilege and narcissism in relationship to the rest of the world. Residing as we do in a “psychic sauna” of representations, we remain buffered from the reality of a planet in crisis.
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If the Blob's elasticity is without limit, does real authenticity no longer exist?
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“nostalgia for the real,” but that authenticity is attainable
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Because we can't go back; we have to go through the state we're in to get to new forms of authenticity.
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01 Mar 12
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In a mediated world, the flattered self is the center of the universe—the consumer, the viewer, the holder of the remote control—able to opt in or out whether it be in regard to a television set or reality itself. And indeed, technological advancements make it harder and harder to even tell the difference between the two.
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23 Dec 09
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Mediation, he argues, is leading to a fusion of the real and the representational.
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