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Mechanical Reproduction and the Fostering of Graphic Incoherence.
Title: Mechanical Reproduction and the Fostering of Graphic Incoherence.
Category: Social Sciences / Communication Studies
Details: Words: 640 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Mechanical Reproduction and the Fostering of Graphic Incoherence.
Walter Benjamin has noted that mechanical reproduction has resulted in the retreat from reality. Indeed, the techno-formulation of reality, which is the mechnical reproduction of images, has served to change human perception. The problem of prime time television serves as an example of this reality, since it fosters graphic incoherence.
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell provided the foundation for our understanding of how prime time television can deceive people. He demonstrates the important reality of …showed first 75 words of 640 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 640 total…break down rationality of citizens.
In this whole process in terms of the capitalist media, humans simply become commodities. Everything becomes about materialism and image, rather than the substance of true individual choice.
Consequently, we begin to understand how the tampering with
language by the state results in the emergence of double think
as a form of the breakdown of rationality. Walter Benjamin was
right, therefore, that mechanical reproduction results in
the retreat from reality.
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