This gets at a recent way I started thinking about modern and postmodern culture. Its like more and more of human conscious experience is shifting away from raw, direct reality, and into our own collective depiction of reality. I'm sure Baudrillard has elaborated on this greatly.It's strange being able to read incredibly detailed histories of the period you're living through too. You could easily spend a lifetime just reading things about and from, say, 2014.
This gets at a recent way I started thinking about modern and postmodern culture. Its like more and more of human conscious experience is shifting away from raw, direct reality, and into our own collective depiction of reality. I'm sure Baudrillard has elaborated on this greatly.
But its like our sense of reality is more and more comprised of our own depiction of reality, our own ideas, and less of direct sensory experience that isn't mediated by ideas. And I suppose the critical mass of this trend is what Baudrillard calls hyperreality, and arguably this as a status quo is what defines postmodernity.
I imagine that's always been the case, but nowadays we have more tools at our disposal and a lot more material to work with.This gets at a recent way I started thinking about modern and postmodern culture. Its like more and more of human conscious experience is shifting away from raw, direct reality, and into our own collective depiction of reality. I'm sure Baudrillard has elaborated on this greatly.
But its like our sense of reality is more and more comprised of our own depiction of reality, our own ideas, and less of direct sensory experience that isn't mediated by ideas. And I suppose the critical mass of this trend is what Baudrillard calls hyperreality, and arguably this as a status quo is what defines postmodernity.
More tools and better tools yes, but we also spend a third of our lives looking at screens, effectively living online, which is new.I imagine that's always been the case, but nowadays we have more tools at our disposal and a lot more material to work with.
Yeah in order for our IT society to process events, they need to be quantified and expressed in certain ways, otherwise its just a group of people with singular apprehensions of event, the communication of which involving more friction and distortion than that of bits.It feels like direct experience and anecdotal evidence are more or less totally devalued at this point, mind you. Any assertion is expected to be backed up with stats and figures as though they aren't also flawed.