Newsworthy Noteworthy Nothingness

an excerpt

• fascination over celebrities/political personalities

• fabrications and misleading information confuse and manipulate facts

• Saturated Timelines

• reflecting on the amalgamation of content that is readily available for absorption

• information is cheap, and wisdom is expensive

• Escapism rituals and the assault on sanity

The sphere of political representation has ended. From left to right, it’s the same nothingness striking a pose of an emperor or a savior, the same sales assistants adjusting their discourse according to the findings of the latest algorithm. The populace seems infinitely more mature than the puppets bickering amongst themselves about how to govern our network, yet our pro-action is relegated to digital channels. To call this population of strangers in the midst of which we live “society” is such a misnomer that even sociologists dream of renouncing a concept that was, for a century, all they knew. Now they prefer the metaphor of a “network” to describe the connection of avatars, the intermeshing of surface interactions under names like “colleague,” “contact,” “friend,” “acquaintance. Such networks sometimes condense to a point where nothing is shared but codes, and where nothing is played out except the incessant recomposition and decomposition of identity…