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Once a media is accepted and known by the multitude it becomes performative, a spectacle where authenticity vanished preempted by new social rules. Beaudrillard
by tsylba 4y ago
Once a media is accepted and known by the multitude it becomes performative, a spectacle where authenticity vanished preempted by new social rules. Beaudrillard's hyperreality describes the situation where we don't live in reality anymore but in the image of the reality we build, akin to an AI learning from data generated by another AI. It seems our current internet culture - heavily centralized, and universally used - is hyperreal, a performative space bound by rules of how to act, how to be accepted, what to say and not to say. In this kind of constructs I believe authenticity vanishes.
I wonder how we might prevent this things to happen. I suspect it's linked with demography and popularity, something something Dunbar's number related.
- user3939382 4y ago> hyperreality describes the situation where we don't live in reality anymore but in the image of the reality we build This concept is almost tautological since the only conceivable alternative would be universal omniscience.
- erichocean 4y agoEh? The Amish (for instance) don't live in hyperreality (by Beaudrillard's definition).
- tsylba 4y agoI might have add "upon itself". There is much to say about what is reality, and you can bring researcher like Hoffmann stating that we see of reality only what is good for our peak survival (don't need infrared, don't see infrared). Hyperreality is something else altogether. First, it's a common theme in postmodernist to state we live in a construct culturally accepted and ever evolving. Hyperreality states that we accept for reality layers that are objectively not, and make it "more real than real". The flavors of energy drinks (with weird names and chemically cultivated), porn for sex, Disney land as archetypal America, tv reality (which is everything but reality). Transposing the sign-value for the thing by itself. Words does not mean the thing that they use to mean but are reinterpreted upon this biased view of reality. The map is not the territory, the word are not the reality behind them. Media are more problematic because they are the message (see McLuhan), they are a space we live in (the water the fish flow in), not "reality" sense by our direct organ. But yeah it's tricky, there is a philosophical conundrum, I get your point.
- kerblang 4y agoI honestly don't think Beaudrillard would have tolerated any philosophical hairsplitting about perceived realities - he recognized a "real" reality, and a shallow, artificial replacement, and was darned cynical & bitter about it.
- hellfish 4y ago> First, it's a common theme in postmodernist to state we live in a construct culturally accepted and ever evolving Hasn't this always been the case?
- jancsika 4y ago"Authenticity" here is so poorly defined I'm afraid it could conceivably end up `rm -rf`ing my entire hard disk.
- tetris11 4y agoA web of trust where each node is not motivated to maximise their connections to other nodes, but stay relatively constant over time.
- ilyt 4y agoI'd like to say by educating people and showing them how to spot that, but I'm afraid that would just make spectacle more elaborate
- Genbox 4y agoEloquently described. News websites I used to frequent have become echo chambers with little tolerance for opposing perspectives. The willingness to discuss becomes a thing of the past and the term 'facts' has been twisted so much that it now means 'your opinion'.