Acid Horizon Baudrillard: The Hyperreality [or the Ecstasy] of Posting on Twitter (radio edit)
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Nov 16, 2022 AI Snips
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Life As Exchangeable Data
- Social media reduces many activities to the commodity form by converting life into exchangeable data.
- Value now accrues as communicable data rather than traditional labor-based wealth in the imperial core.
Images Become More Real Than Events
- Media narratives and images can become more real than events by circulating as simulacra.
- Digital communication accelerates this, making mediated images drive public perception and politics.
Obscenity As Saturation Of Space
- Baudrillard's "cool" communicational obscenity saturates every interstitial space with superficial information.
- This exhaustion of interstitial silence forces constant expression and emotional plasticity on users.