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An essay such as this, then, cannot proceed without mentioning Jean Baudrillard and his exemplary The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). In this text he theorizes that war is fought, above all, on screens, because “representation replaces experience and war becomes a flow of administered images.” This includes the horrific videos of bombings and... See more
Frankie Pizá • The nilitarization of the present
Everything Is Television
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Everything Is Television
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Television is our culture’s principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore—and this is the critical point—how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Technology / Media Ecology
Sit with this idea for a moment. So many of our stories about technology and disability are about technologies as redemptive, as having the power to normalize disabled people, to make us “overcome” our disabilities. They show us “better” living through technology, where better means something pretty specific in how people exist in the world. But
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