unwritten_law9
10/29/09, 06:36 PM
Mediaded
Let me be the first to say that I didn’t understand all of what De Zengotita described in his book Mediated.
De Zengotita has a way of analyzing trends through his idea of option and his term the blob. The blob is kind of his catch all term for the mediated world we're inhabiting. The idea of options that he adheres to is that we're going through this transformation to postmodernism, but really we're just being presented with more options, and that the more options we have the less close to reality we are living. In the opening of the book he explains a scene of true reality in which a person stranded due to car failure in Saskatchewan with no radio, cell phone, or reading material is closest to reality due to his lack of options. He argues that chance and necessity are all that's left of reality. Say you go on a trip to have some concrete experiences. Let's say you decided to go skydiving, you have to choose to jump out of that plane, it's an option, it's not like the planes going down and it's a necessity that you jump to save your life. So maybe reality is becoming a bit more optional, and it certainly is headed that way, but what are we losing by allowing it to be. Personally I vote for us to bring on the mediation, I am thoroughly entertained by these optional experiences.
Innis states that "Individual applied their minds to symbols rather than things and went beyond the world of concrete experience into the world of conceptual relations created within an enlarged time and space universe." Which leads me to think that the dawn of print was the first time that you could represent yourself other then how others saw you. Previous to that you would rely on peoples interactions with you as well as what people say about you. I feel like the blob that De Zengotita is speaking of truly is this world of options of how to represent ourselves. We are nothing more then actors on stage just reciting lines, and considering different options. We are also experiencing things in a new form, through new mediums. We no longer have to physically be at an event to have lived through it or to have a emotional response. We can tune those things in, and have a better expierence then those who were there in real life. These attendees don't have as many options as the mediated viewer does, we can repeat parts, see events from more angles, a sort of perfect seat in the concert hall.
Let me be the first to say that I didn’t understand all of what De Zengotita described in his book Mediated.
De Zengotita has a way of analyzing trends through his idea of option and his term the blob. The blob is kind of his catch all term for the mediated world we're inhabiting. The idea of options that he adheres to is that we're going through this transformation to postmodernism, but really we're just being presented with more options, and that the more options we have the less close to reality we are living. In the opening of the book he explains a scene of true reality in which a person stranded due to car failure in Saskatchewan with no radio, cell phone, or reading material is closest to reality due to his lack of options. He argues that chance and necessity are all that's left of reality. Say you go on a trip to have some concrete experiences. Let's say you decided to go skydiving, you have to choose to jump out of that plane, it's an option, it's not like the planes going down and it's a necessity that you jump to save your life. So maybe reality is becoming a bit more optional, and it certainly is headed that way, but what are we losing by allowing it to be. Personally I vote for us to bring on the mediation, I am thoroughly entertained by these optional experiences.
Innis states that "Individual applied their minds to symbols rather than things and went beyond the world of concrete experience into the world of conceptual relations created within an enlarged time and space universe." Which leads me to think that the dawn of print was the first time that you could represent yourself other then how others saw you. Previous to that you would rely on peoples interactions with you as well as what people say about you. I feel like the blob that De Zengotita is speaking of truly is this world of options of how to represent ourselves. We are nothing more then actors on stage just reciting lines, and considering different options. We are also experiencing things in a new form, through new mediums. We no longer have to physically be at an event to have lived through it or to have a emotional response. We can tune those things in, and have a better expierence then those who were there in real life. These attendees don't have as many options as the mediated viewer does, we can repeat parts, see events from more angles, a sort of perfect seat in the concert hall.