ekstasis@cyberia

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Elvis presided over the birth of a great new means of expression, one of three such flowerings in America since World War II. The second was television from broadcast to cable to music videos. The third is the net. (Katz, Wired, pp. 10–14) The lived meaning of space, time, and subjectivity has been radically altered by electronic technologies in an experience that may be described, and cannot be denied/ (Dery, Flame Wars, 1994, p. 19) 1The Greek word ekstasis means standing outside or beyond oneself. Baudrillard first used the term “ecstacy” in relation to the “hyper‐real” of electronically mediated communication in>The ecstacy of communication (1984). According to Baudrillard, in an environment where nothing is hidden or secret but all is made public, transparent and excessively visible through the spectacle of mass media, information and communication implode into an ecstatic obscenity: a total exteriorisation of being outside and beyond itself. Baudrillard was talking about non‐interactive mass media, ...

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