Post-TV musings

Will Self (my second-favourite author) has a collection of essays out in book form called 'Junk Mail'. In an interview with Martin Amis (my favourite author), they discuss how people construct elaborate motifs to grace their lives. Amis goes on to comment that "what people are up to now is post-modernist, in the sense that they are loose beings in search of a form. And the art that they bring to this now, to shape their lives, is TV." It made me wonder what will happen when, almost inevitably, the Internet eventually attains 'ontological validity' and becomes the primary means by which people shape their lives. Hopefully it will be a positive evolution, in that it will give rise to interactive, vibrant connections with the world, rather than passive, muted consumption of broadcast simulacra.

Posted by monoman at 06:46 AM on February 12, 2004