BEER Group Read. "How is this day different from any other day?

[Mark Kohut]

In the book I mentioned, it means even more. At base and almost impossible in 
the praxis of our Western world, it sorta means a "pure' gesture, "pure' perception, etc..as I said, imagine.

He argues we get most of our 'reality' from already-existent stereotypical (narrow) narratives that 
are the ones the media makes and repeats and repeats.......
back to McLuhan one of the deeper meanings of The medium is the message is that we can only see and feel within the forms of 
our culture.....[McLuhan was an English scholar who could write, for example, about how and when the sonnet AS
A FORM lost its cultural force and other such good shit....[when the sonnet did, LOVE changed, yes it did, he would say, certainly the 
ways we came to feel/acknowledge it did] 

"it was like a movie" said of so many bad shit scenes, not least the destruction of the Twin Towers.

Author of Mediated sez his book was to Zap the Zeitgeist....which could be the title of a review of
BLEEDING EDGE, imho. ]
 
Look, the book has its own wikipedia entry! Check out the Wash Post review on it. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediated

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From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: BEER Group Read. "How is this day different from any other day?

That's what it means to me.

One of the BIG themes in BE is how so much of quotidian life, Upper  
West Side, 2001, is mediated by Televisual Experience. How the talk  
and look is saturated with the televisual, so much so that we cease to  
notice, This novel becomes glib "telefare" to those who think  
themselves "Above that", immune to the seductions of popcult.  
Bleeding Edge has all content of the other "Big" novels but, like the  
culturally preterite "Tubeular" novels it is situated in the age of  
Television, just before TV mutated into the Interwebs.


On Oct 13, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Keith Davis wrote:

> This idea of mediated reality seems like an important idea. To be  
> clear, are we using it here in the sense of how our view of the  
> world around us,  and our participation in it, is shaped by how it's  
> presented to us in the media? Seems like there could be a few  
> different ways this word could be used, and I want to be clear about  
> it.

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