spectacle

Recently I've been thinking about Baudrillard a lot because of my interest in engaging with changes in spectacle culture. I revisited his thinking around the television’s reframing of war narratives, which was reconstructing people's self-identification with conflicts.

Avery Singer, Avery Singer on the Dopamine Blowout

By making it a public spectacle—complete with mechanical sounds and physical evidence—it transforms criticism into theater, drawing attention to the performative aspects of all critical pronouncements.

A.I.C.C.A., Mario Klingemann & A.I.C.C.A. on Alien Perspective