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I love this quote: Every home will be transformed into its own TV studio. We’ll all be simultaneously actor, director and screenwriter in our own soap opera. P
by labrador 2y ago
I love this quote:
Every home will be transformed into its own TV studio. We’ll all be simultaneously actor, director and screenwriter in our own soap opera. People will start screening themselves. They will become their own TV programmes.
Every one of our actions during the day, across the entire spectrum of domestic life, will be instantly recorded on video-tape. In the evening we will sit back to scan the rushes, selected by a computer trained to pick out only our best profiles, our wittiest dialogue, our most affecting expressions filmed through the kindest filters, and then stitch these together into a heightened re-enactment of the day. Regardless of our place in the family pecking order, each of us within the privacy of our own rooms will be the star in a continually unfolding domestic saga, with parents, husbands, wives and children demoted to an appropriate supporting role.
Jerry Seinfeld once did an episode of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" where he showed the edited version of the day he spent with Bob Enstein and the unedited version. It was incredible to me how mundane and boring the unedited version was compared to the brilliant edited version. That was the point Seinfeld was trying to make. We live in a world a world of make believe.
- pixl97 2y ago>We live in a world a world of make believe Closer to we live in the world of simulacra and simulation. We see this edited version everywhere, think how actors look in TV, how makeup looks in magazines, how people behave in youtube videos.... then we collectively become that.
- labrador 2y agoMy friends and family appreciate when I use language they can understand so it's a habit I've gotten into, but I do appreciate your distinction
- pixl97 2y agoIn case you didn't know, simulacra and simulation is a book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
- pavlov 2y ago“My friends and family don’t care for fancy words.” “No, you see, it’s actually Baudrillard” This is a neat distillation of a certain type of stereotypic HN exchange.
- labrador 2y agoNo stereotypic HN exchange would be complete without a meta comment about the comments
- euroderf 2y agoAs layers of metas accrete, the original reality recedes into the distance, becoming simulacrum.
- contingencies 2y agoLarry: Simulate crumbs? Let them eat bread! Jerry: What do you care if I eat crumbs?
- aspenmayer 2y ago> Marx’s famous introduction to the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte—that history happens twice, first as tragedy, then as a farce—has become something of a leitmotif in the works of artists, cultural critics and journalists grappling with the absurd elements of political agitation in the 21st century. Notably, Hal Foster poses the question “What comes after farce?” in his 2020 book of the same name; a book cataloguing contemporary art responses to existence in the Trump era. However, with its renewed appeal, and with support from numerous textual and visual examples, a new addendum has emerged: LARP comes after farce. > The notion that LARP historically emerges after farce is incapsulated in a quote found within A.M Gittlitz’s biography of Homero Cristalli, better known as J. Posadas. >> “What we on the Left flatter ourselves in calling our political and even our revolutionary work is in fact nothing of the sort. It is more akin to religious ritual. Mass rallies, newspaper sales, endless meetings, electoral campaigning, street fighting, writing articles that no one will ever read and books absolutely no one will ever get any practical use out of … In another time, in another place, these rituals may have had a relationship to a broader movement, a broader strategy, and such stirrings have always accompanied revolutionary moments. And so, having no real conception of the thing itself, we try to grasp at revolution by playing out its inessential weirdnesses ad nauseam. This is what comes after farce. This is LARP.” LARP Politics and Hyperreality https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40279820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40279820
- lupire 2y agoDid the edited version create jokes they weren't in the unedited? Or did it just skip over the unfunny parts of a day?
- labrador 2y agoNo new material in the edited version. They cut out the unfunny/uninteresting parts
- Yasuraka 2y agoI wonder how many minutes (seconds?) would make the cut if they did the same with all episodes of Seinfeld
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- Animats 2y agoWe need a browser add-on which does that to Youtube videos. The future may be AI generated blithering which is then removed by AI summarizers.