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Andreas Hepp’s formulation of “deep mediatization” points a further way out of determinism. Under this condition, Hepp writes, “all elements of our social world are intricately related to digital media and their underlying infrastructures.”28 If society has become so thoroughly mediated, how could we expect democracy to emerge in not-especially-dem
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Globalization takes place only in capital and data. Everything else…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“We fought the slop, and the slop became us. Or, some of us. But the slop isn’t going anywhere, and the question now is how to learn about the world online without becoming a conduit for slop. A slop creator. A slop enjoyer. Is it even possible?”
Much of Baudrillard’s work was a commentary on this same effect: the way in which the abolition of the Symbolic led not to a direct encounter with the Real, but to a kind of hemorrhaging of the Real. For Baudrillard, phenomena such as fly on the wall documentaries and political opinion polls – both of which claimed to present reality in an unmediat
... See moreMark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
