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Are there any good medium- to long-form recent works with valuable insight into the modern phenomenon of hyper-availble multimedia? Psychological, sociological,
by ashark 9y ago
Are there any good medium- to long-form recent works with valuable insight into the modern phenomenon of hyper-availble multimedia? Psychological, sociological, political effects, any of that? I'm reading DFW's part-literature-review part-independent-thesis "E Unibus Pluram"[1] and read his "Host" a little while back, and find myself wanting more recent examinations/criticism of our media culture of similar quality.
[1] https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf (I don't know whether this is the same as the version collected in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again)
- defen 9y agoThe eponymous Infinite Jest in the DFW book of the same name is a piece of content (film) so compelling that people watch it over and over until they die.