internet natives and their pathologies

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
she wasn't in a position of leadership though, more like a scapegoat for everyone's emotional deficiencies, their despair at a cruel world, her betrayal in love by a prince of the realm

complete with theme song
Even in the absence of statutory power (which I think you're referring to here, but could be wrong), she could still be considered a leader insofar as people turn to her as a leader, even naively.
 

luka

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I don't remember MJ but Di I do remember being in a rural pub during a biblical downpour with the water rushing in over the threshold. I can't literally remember where though. Somewhere green and pleasant.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Another thing re: celebrity and internet culture is the added intimacy of these parasocial dynamics. Many people browse social media in bed, engaging in social cognition and informing their social acumen, while in their most vulnerable position.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Also that there isn't really respite from the social arena, short of renunciation of the tools of socializing, even temporarily.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Another thing re: celebrity and internet culture is the added intimacy of these parasocial dynamics. Many people browse social media in bed, engaging in social cognition and informing their social acumen, while in their most vulnerable position.
Whereas, in prior eras, most of your social interaction was after you had time to prepare yourself and get dressed, i.e. psychologically rally yourself up and into the world. Now, that armor has less opportunity to be equipped, and maybe as a result of this added vulnerability a stronger crust forms
 

linebaugh

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I think what luka is saying stan is that diana is interesting because emotional stop gap and depository was her role for the middle class
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
The being always plugged in seems to be the really new thing. And the reason I won't use a smartphone
Yeah thats what I did mostly throughout college, actually. I was the one student I met who didn't use social media, and now I only use it pseudonymously and/or under monikers.
 

luka

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Another thing re: celebrity and internet culture is the added intimacy of these parasocial dynamics. Many people browse social media in bed, engaging in social cognition and informing their social acumen, while in their most vulnerable position.
Also the people you are staring at in these parasocial situations present themselves in very intimate ways, in bed, eating, applying make-up, choosing an outfit. It's presented as sharing their lives, which again probably doesn't have much of a precedent
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I think what luka is saying stan is that diana is interesting because emotional stop gap and depository was her role for the middle class
Yeah thats the sort of explanation I was looking for, a sort of outlet for sympathy and/or grievance I suppose.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Also the people you are staring at in these parasocial situations present themselves in very intimate ways, in bed, eating, applying make-up, choosing an outfit. It's presented as sharing their lives, which again probably doesn't have much of a precedent
Yeah previously people would watch, say, late night television in bed, but that was much more glammed up, i.e. distanced and formal, than what we're talking about.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Yeah the synchronization point someone made upthread is important. Its as if we're being primed for some consolidation of consciousness.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
In all seriousness though, we should keep our eyes peeled regarding any technology that involves shared consciousness, as it will in all likelihood be the technical consequent of consciousness studies becoming a hard science (qua data science), thus rendering matters of consciousness interoperable with the internet stack.
 

luka

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I participated in a science experiement to try and establish a linked consciousness thru DMT but it didn't work at all
 

luka

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Mass media has always been about syncing consciousness, not that there weren't techniques to do that previously. Burroughs understood the Mayan Calender in that light. Syncing is different from sharing obviously
 
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