Culture: Contradictions and paradoxes
06.29.10
We are truly social creatures now. Man’s dependence on others has reached exponential levels; also his connectedness. The time between one man’s thought and another’s benefit is drastically reduced. Also, time is no longer an absorbent or muffler that might diminish or soften harsh ideas or actions. This “real-time” action disables the possibility of meaningful action on individual level, drastically minimizing his area of influence. While it turns life into a queue or a traffic lane with little leeway for self-directed action (theirs not to question why, theirs but to do and die), greatest sufferers are those who dwell in the realm of creativity, imagination and ideas.
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Tags: Baudrillard, Culture, differend, Intangibility, Lyotard, museumification, Philosophy, post modernism, UNESCO Convention 2003, visuality
