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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
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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IN A COMMAND-AND-CONTROL WORLD, we know who’s telling the story; it’s the author. But digital media have created an authorship crisis. Once the audience is free to step out into the fiction and start directing events, the entire edifice of twentieth-century mass media begins to crumble.
Frank Rose • The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories
Technology, understood as our interface with the material world, is that human practice which most closely ties us to our context and our environment.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
contemporary accounts of proximity and distance, particularly those from post-1968 ideological critics, treat them as if spectator “positions” were effects of the textual