Tag: baudrillard

  • Why Gen Z Media is so Meaningless

    Beautiful essay on the media environment that Gen Z faces, a lack of shared culture and language, and why this creates a level of nihilism and apathy among their generation. I will admit, faced with the news of the day any given day, it is not hard to understand why apathy is setting in. You…

  • Modernity Amplified

    I thought this was an incredible example of how the world of signs and simulacra is impossible to separate from reality. They are on in the same, working on, and overlapping on, one another always. This has always happened in news and media of course, but the ad reads on podcasts are so “authentic” –…

  • HyperNormalisation:Adam Curtis

    His documentaries are getting me. Resonating with themes of Baudrillard and mass media and other quite fascinating and unfortunate themes. This one is all the same.

  • Traditional Georgian Dance to Future

    Today’s my birthday. 33rd year – the Jesus year – is nigh! I think I’ll live this year with the attitude of this video. It’s simply wonderful. —— Also, there is an infinite amount of content (signs h/t Baudrillard) to be created. Many, many of them of unbelievably imaginative and interesting; such as these Georgians…