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Truman Show Delusion
The document discusses the influence of media on individual perception of reality, exploring themes like delusion, narcissism, and self-exposure in the context of the 'Truman Show.' It raises questions about personal identity and the nature of reality shaped by media. The authors highlight the psychological impact of new media on self-awareness and subjective experience.
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Truman Show Delusion
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- 2. if reality inmedia is something we (think we) can change whatever we change reality into… depends on what you think your individual role in reality is are you… a prisoner? slave to consensus? the One? or just a True (Wo)Man?
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- 17. INTERVIEWER Why doyou feel that Truman’s never come close to discovering the true nature of his world? CHRISTOF We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented.
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- 20. Truman Show Delusionnarcissism paranoia performance solipsism media
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- 26. “ the TSDis the pathological product of our insatiable appetite for self-exposure” “ warrantless wiretapping and video surveillance systems [...] widely accessible technology [...] reality TV shows and MySpace" - as squaring with the Truman Show 's basic premise” “ new media [are] opening up vast social spaces that might be interacting with psychological processes”
- 27. there is thesense that the ordinary is changed or different, and that there is particular significance in this; this is coupled with a searching for meaning; a profound alteration of subjective experience and of self-awareness, resulting in an unstable first-person perspective with varieties of depersonalization and derealization, disturbed sense of ownership, fluidity of the basic sense of identity, distortions of the stream of consciousness and experiences of disembodiment. Paolo Fusar-Poli, Oliver Howes, Lucia Valmaggia & Philip McGuire in The British Journal of Psychiatry – September 2008
Editor's Notes
- #2 What this means, is that we are all living inside our own TRUMAN SHOW, as the Jim Carrey character in the movie of that tile did: surrounded by omnipresent media, being recorded and monitored all the time, making and consuming media constantly, being connected to everyone else through increasingly digital, portable and networked media devices all the time - and unwilling or indeed unable to switch any of this off. The question now is: what skills and attitude do you need to cope with this kind of life? How do you survive inside your own Truman Show? THAT is what T101 is all about.
- #4 Key Issues: After considering reality as ruled by consensus (Google/Wikipedia), governed like a prison (Panopticon/Omnopticon), or works as a consensual illusion (Matrix), a final version of reality is an individual delusion In the movie, Jim Carrey portrays the only “True Man” in his world: Truman Burbank A delusion is not perception, nor hallucination; to the one being delusional, it is a belief that is (usually) persistent and (sometimes) lifelong What if Truman cannot escape?
- #5 panoptic reality: everyone is watching everyone else and we behave accordingly
- #6 wikiality: we can fit in only if we are “most” and “last”: like the google algorithm or wikipedia, if most people agree with us we will appear on top/our reality will be validated.
- #7 matrix: reality is a given and only I can change it if I convince everyone else to change it with me.
- #8 panopto
- #12 Truman Show gated community: Seaside Florida: http://www.seasidefl.com/
- #16 cool: http://edbattle.com/post/4683353465/reality-the-truman-show-we-accept-the
- #17 cool: http://edbattle.com/post/4683353465/reality-the-truman-show-we-accept-the
- #18 http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/the-truman-show_shooting.html
- #19 cool: http://edbattle.com/post/4683353465/reality-the-truman-show-we-accept-the
- #20 What this means, is that we are all living inside our own TRUMAN SHOW, as the Jim Carrey character in the movie of that tile did: surrounded by omnipresent media, being recorded and monitored all the time, making and consuming media constantly, being connected to everyone else through increasingly digital, portable and networked media devices all the time - and unwilling or indeed unable to switch any of this off. The question now is: what skills and attitude do you need to cope with this kind of life? How do you survive inside your own Truman Show? THAT is what T101 is all about.
- #27 http://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/07/the-adventures-of-eggplant/
- #28 British Journal of Psychiatry 2008