tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post8936169119436263554..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Nostalgia: Not What It Used To BePhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-19376743982474147952014-05-01T10:40:23.612+01:002014-05-01T10:40:23.612+01:00Thanks to living in a media saturated society, tho...Thanks to living in a media saturated society, those who make it never really die anyway ...Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-8981834576775686642014-04-25T01:28:48.812+01:002014-04-25T01:28:48.812+01:00well, ken, i was once told that in the mid 1970s c...well, ken, i was once told that in the mid 1970s certain top players in the funerary industry in los angeles came up with a scheme whereby the soon to be departed (or, in the case of sudden accident, his or her close relatives) could hire a script writer and several un- or underemployed actors to re-enact a brief biography showing key moments in the loved one's life, the whole thing to be videotaped and shown during the funeral service, or even at graveside, or hell, i suppose even as a continuous tape-loop in perpetuum. i was also told that the reason this plan fell through was simply that those who could afford this service invariably wanted some big name star, like kirk douglas or sean connery to play the lead, which, obviously, just owing to scheduling conflicts, could never be arranged in a timely fashion. but now with digitization and really good cgi effects, who knows? <br /><br />les<br /><br />p.s. need i mention that when a roman emperor died, the senate would hire a comic actor to walk in the funeral procession who would wear a life-like mask of the deceased and imitate his gestures and speeches? i mean, even marshall mcluhan once pointed out that past times become pastimes. anyway, i'm sure you could find a suitable pork pie hat on craigslist or e-bay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-54203728307327943892014-04-24T22:02:06.049+01:002014-04-24T22:02:06.049+01:00Can I choose "Breaking Bad" as a digital...Can I choose "Breaking Bad" as a digital remake of my life. "Mild mannered teacher deals with his enemies. Government is dissolved in an acid bath."Kennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-70722234556339332312014-04-23T23:20:13.780+01:002014-04-23T23:20:13.780+01:00no, i think in 10 years time, not even 50, some yo...no, i think in 10 years time, not even 50, some young "entrepreneur" will come along, and, for a nominal price, turn your stored electronic memories into a.) a clever "mash-up" b.) an exciting first-person shooter-style video game or c.) a mock hbo series, either downton abbey, game of thrones, or walking dead style. i mean, really, isn't that merely a logical extension of the commodification of the self? <br /><br />lesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-56616717303516803282014-04-23T13:23:27.056+01:002014-04-23T13:23:27.056+01:00Oh no! Not our private sex tapes!
I'm not sur...Oh no! Not our private sex tapes!<br /><br />I'm not sure I agree with the thrust of the post (fnar) - in principal it seems like a good idea, but the other day i was going through a box of old letters (remember them?) which meant much more to me than emails. <br /><br />No one sends letters any more, no one reads old emails. <br /><br />Rather than being continually on, we are perhaps continually off. <br />Speedynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-61651525671444812562014-04-23T09:21:36.423+01:002014-04-23T09:21:36.423+01:00OK, I agree, it's not a video game post. My im...OK, I agree, it's not a video game post. My immediate reaction is that there is a paragraph missing, the last one which might have had a guess at the consequences of what you rightly label a culture of self-surveillance. (French intellectual alert: Foucault, no?) The immediate example which springs to mind is young people recording their opinions / photos / selfies / dress sense (I use the term loosely)/ binge drinking on Facebook. There is chatter about employers accessing Facebook posts to assess candidates. Indeed, one of my relatives was the subject of a disciplinary as a result of a post. The consequences of this might be the construction of fake social media profiles for the consumption of others but a parallel, authentic, life lived outside the remit of such sites.<br />Another possibility is that Young people are perpetually "on" , in the sense that they are always aware that their behaviour never disappears. The difficulty of weeding all these photographs and posts might lead to more caution in real life, especially now we know that GCHQ / NSA can access anything we have ever put on the internet, apparently even our private sex tapes.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04757591304423301884noreply@blogger.com