Unthinkable: We have become more interested in the representations of things than the reality of those things
Unthinkable: We live in a bizarre cultural landscape in which we are more interested in the representations of things than the reality of those things
Often, when we engage with the internet, our focus will be snagged by the unreason, idiocy or impoliteness of strangers. People saying, doing or making things we find dull, irrelevant or even offensive. Autotuned videos of a guitarist accompanying a yowling cat. Deliberately disgusting recipes like the ones in which American moms bake Cheetos with spam and pasta in radioactive canned cheese sauce as a “hearty family meal” for hate-engagement.
This way of thinking is the basic operating procedure of a life lived partially, or largely, online. Few of us even defecate without a phone in our hand any more . We have been chronically online for quite some time now but we’re still quite bad at being on the internet despite its ubiquity. We still get jealous when we look at retouched photos of influencers on holiday.
As the teenage girls made their dance video at the park and I drank my coffee and watched the birds busying their beaks into the soil, I made a mental note to reread Jean Baudrillard on hyperreality.
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