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Zoemancer
It makes me wonder if the big media company and "the man" are actually working together here.
You might find Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle useful reading.
And Mark Downham's Videodrome: The thing in Room 101 may be worth a glance - if you can find it (first published in Vague magazine, 1987):
The Videodrome has its roots in the stimulus-addictive spectacular commodity-culture and it is realised and reified through the commodity in fashion, style, newness. The spectacular videodrome generates subliminal overstimulation and this hype leads to a craving for more stimulus for its own sake. The Videodrome through the television screen, in words, sound, vision, visual imagery; releases spores, pheromones which make us gorge ourselves on it, always wanting more, whether it's tactile, sexual, phenomenal, social, material or emotional - seeking what we can never find, the realization of our desire. The video-spectacular pulse inserts a permanent feeling of dissatisfaction of the senses, identity, personality, it collapses each new construct it proffers, it collapses new people. This is an ever-accelerating law of diminishing returns - craving, production, consumption, simulation, excitation, stimulation, craving - the videodrome spectacular hype is never over.
The videodrome is the deepest fix you'll ever crave and it's a craving stimulus junkies never kick.' |
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