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

[Mark Kohut]

The more I meditate on mediate, the more I think your phrase
"the televisual" is right on......w movies, TV, video games, and
virtual reality online......

it is all visually-based and certainly how we live ain't no oral culture
nor no Moses' tablet culture---now the Ipad and smartphone tablets...
which did not exist in 2001 but only makes TRP's perceptions more true. 

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From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
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Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 11:24 AM
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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