![[living in media means] “a person will no longer be a worker
(homo faber) but rather an information processor, a player
with information (homo ludens).”
Vilém Flusser – 1990](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/wearezombies-111012134233-phpapp02/85/We-Are-Media-Zombies-24-320.jpg)
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We Are (Media) Zombies
The document explores the concept of living in a media-saturated environment, likening individuals to 'media zombies' who process information rather than engage productively. It suggests that when everyone is transparent in their lives, societal values shift away from superficial concerns to addressing real issues. The text raises questions about the implications of this shift on individual ideology and the collective focus on societal problems.
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- 23. together alone remixed driven yet goalless … and probably listen to extreme metal
- 24. [living in mediameans] “a person will no longer be a worker (homo faber) but rather an information processor, a player with information (homo ludens).” Vilém Flusser – 1990
- 25. if we livein (not with) media we are zombies if we are (media) zombies we can change reality the question is: what reality would zombies make?
- 27. “If everyone wasliving in public it would change their whole ideology of thinking and it will result in nobody giving a fuck about their old concerns about style, or what their friends are thinking because all of our issues and problems will be visible to the whole world. Then the masses can poke fun or judge or what ever they do and we will have to start focusing on actual problems in our lives instead of worrying about media”
- 28. “If everyone wasliving in public it would change their whole ideology of thinking and it will result in nobody giving a fuck about their old concerns about style, or what their friends are thinking because all of our issues and problems will be visible to the whole world. Then the masses can poke fun or judge or what ever they do and we will have to start focusing on actual problems in our lives instead of worrying about media”
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- #7 Westlake Hardware stores are located in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico.
- #12 He may have had a laser in his watch and a radio in his lighter, but even James Bond didn't sport gadgets tattooed to his skin. Now he could, thanks to the development of ultrathin electronics that can be placed on the skin as easily as a temporary tattoo. The researchers hope the new devices will pave the way for sensors that monitor heart and brain activity without bulky equipment, or perhaps computers that operate via the subtlest voice commands or body movement.
- #14 turning your computer into a zombie
- #15 media resurrecting dead time
- #16 reason 2: media equation
- #17 remix: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/everything-is-a-remix-part-1/
- #25 Previously, the reality was hard, it pushed against it, broke it and ran out the teeth on the other hand, until the skull cracked. Not too long ago they were fluffy, the ending could not intervene to hand grasp and understand quite, and echoed the call for her to no response. And now it is because to be frothy, a sprawling pile of soap bubbles, which burst at the slightest touch, and prove nothing. In this account of the disappearance of reality rising to a question, but it remains on the tongue and can not be uttered. She still speaks out, then it sounds like: "Get out the reality really ?"...