#hyperreality — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hyperreality, aggregated by home.social.
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We live in the #hyperreality of the cut’s short, where facts are lost before they even exist and all that matters is the emotional response one intends to elicit.
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We live in the #hyperreality of the cut’s short, where facts are lost before they even exist and all that matters is the emotional response one intends to elicit.
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We live in the #hyperreality of the cut’s short, where facts are lost before they even exist and all that matters is the emotional response one intends to elicit.
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We live in the #hyperreality of the cut’s short, where facts are lost before they even exist and all that matters is the emotional response one intends to elicit.
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Just watched// an excellent video essay by one of our favourite YouTube content creators, Bluesky's own @[email protected]
It's an exploration of the quantising &monetisation of #nostalgia thru the lens of Jean #Baudrillard ’s concepts of #simulacra and #hyperreality.
youtu.be/OWsGUx3gWFw?...
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Panoramique Studio
Par sophistick
Une exploration visuelle de l'engloutissement du réel par le numérique à travers le prisme du chat viral. De la parodie à l'effondrement du système.0:00 The Simulation (MIAOUX)
0:45 The First Glitch
1:30 Reality Dissolving
2:15 The Digital Abyss
3:09 A difficult awakening
#videos, #art #cinematicelectro #musique #Experimental Film, #cyberpunk , #baudrillard , #hyperreality #Matrixparody, #glitchaesthetic , #internetmeme #electronicmusic , #cat ,#gatos #聊天
https://www.yiny.org/w/iDHExEC1iQ5hBKEuVYXZZm
Aime bien les virgules.
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Panoramique Studio
Par sophistick
Une exploration visuelle de l'engloutissement du réel par le numérique à travers le prisme du chat viral. De la parodie à l'effondrement du système.0:00 The Simulation (MIAOUX)
0:45 The First Glitch
1:30 Reality Dissolving
2:15 The Digital Abyss
3:09 A difficult awakening
#videos, #art #cinematicelectro #musique #Experimental Film, #cyberpunk , #baudrillard , #hyperreality #Matrixparody, #glitchaesthetic , #internetmeme #electronicmusic , #cat ,#gatos #聊天
https://www.yiny.org/w/iDHExEC1iQ5hBKEuVYXZZm
Aime bien les virgules.
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Panoramique Studio
Par sophistick
Une exploration visuelle de l'engloutissement du réel par le numérique à travers le prisme du chat viral. De la parodie à l'effondrement du système.0:00 The Simulation (MIAOUX)
0:45 The First Glitch
1:30 Reality Dissolving
2:15 The Digital Abyss
3:09 A difficult awakening
#videos, #art #cinematicelectro #musique #Experimental Film, #cyberpunk , #baudrillard , #hyperreality #Matrixparody, #glitchaesthetic , #internetmeme #electronicmusic , #cat ,#gatos #聊天
https://www.yiny.org/w/iDHExEC1iQ5hBKEuVYXZZm
Aime bien les virgules.
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CW: On the Unkept Promises of Capitalism (1/2)
RE: https://ohai.social/@jascha/116713757833872735
Anthropomorphism is a natural human phenomenon. To answer it, we have 3 choices:
* Deny it and do it unintentionally, thus believing that corporations love you because they told you they did.
* Accept it and rebuke the tendency constantly, viewing corporations as constructs without independent moral agency....
#Mythopoetics #Anthropomorphism #LateCapitalism #SystemicLogic #CorporateCritique #PsychologicalHeuristics #Hyperreality #BizarroCareBears
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CW: On the Unkept Promises of Capitalism (1/2)
RE: https://ohai.social/@jascha/116713757833872735
Anthropomorphism is a natural human phenomenon. To answer it, we have 3 choices:
* Deny it and do it unintentionally, thus believing that corporations love you because they told you they did.
* Accept it and rebuke the tendency constantly, viewing corporations as constructs without independent moral agency....
#Mythopoetics #Anthropomorphism #LateCapitalism #SystemicLogic #CorporateCritique #PsychologicalHeuristics #Hyperreality #BizarroCareBears
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CW: On the Unkept Promises of Capitalism (1/2)
RE: https://ohai.social/@jascha/116713757833872735
Anthropomorphism is a natural human phenomenon. To answer it, we have 3 choices:
* Deny it and do it unintentionally, thus believing that corporations love you because they told you they did.
* Accept it and rebuke the tendency constantly, viewing corporations as constructs without independent moral agency....
#Mythopoetics #Anthropomorphism #LateCapitalism #SystemicLogic #CorporateCritique #PsychologicalHeuristics #Hyperreality #BizarroCareBears
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CW: On the Unkept Promises of Capitalism (1/2)
RE: https://ohai.social/@jascha/116713757833872735
Anthropomorphism is a natural human phenomenon. To answer it, we have 3 choices:
* Deny it and do it unintentionally, thus believing that corporations love you because they told you they did.
* Accept it and rebuke the tendency constantly, viewing corporations as constructs without independent moral agency....
#Mythopoetics #Anthropomorphism #LateCapitalism #SystemicLogic #CorporateCritique #PsychologicalHeuristics #Hyperreality #BizarroCareBears
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CW: On the Unkept Promises of Capitalism (1/2)
RE: https://ohai.social/@jascha/116713757833872735
Anthropomorphism is a natural human phenomenon. To answer it, we have 3 choices:
* Deny it and do it unintentionally, thus believing that corporations love you because they told you they did.
* Accept it and rebuke the tendency constantly, viewing corporations as constructs without independent moral agency....
#Mythopoetics #Anthropomorphism #LateCapitalism #SystemicLogic #CorporateCritique #PsychologicalHeuristics #Hyperreality #BizarroCareBears
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The Architecture of the Real: Why We Must Document the Modern Ledger
An introduction to the structural mission of The Human Ledger, exploring how material macroeconomics, institutional socio-politics, and deep philosophy map our collective reality.https://regeljavines8.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/the-architecture-of-the-real/
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The Architecture of the Real: Why We Must Document the Modern Ledger
An introduction to the structural mission of The Human Ledger, exploring how material macroeconomics, institutional socio-politics, and deep philosophy map our collective reality.https://regeljavines8.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/the-architecture-of-the-real/
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The Architecture of the Real: Why We Must Document the Modern Ledger
An introduction to the structural mission of The Human Ledger, exploring how material macroeconomics, institutional socio-politics, and deep philosophy map our collective reality.https://regeljavines8.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/the-architecture-of-the-real/
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The Architecture of the Real: Why We Must Document the Modern Ledger
An introduction to the structural mission of The Human Ledger, exploring how material macroeconomics, institutional socio-politics, and deep philosophy map our collective reality.https://regeljavines8.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/the-architecture-of-the-real/
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The Architecture of the Real: Why We Must Document the Modern Ledger
An introduction to the structural mission of The Human Ledger, exploring how material macroeconomics, institutional socio-politics, and deep philosophy map our collective reality.https://regeljavines8.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/the-architecture-of-the-real/
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Dead Domain put together this wonderful video essay about hyperreality, cognitive dissonance, and the overall lack of connection and meaning in modern day society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinreKJ9Zjo
#culture #ai #media #socialmedia #hyperreality #cognativedissonance
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Dead Domain put together this wonderful video essay about hyperreality, cognitive dissonance, and the overall lack of connection and meaning in modern day society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinreKJ9Zjo
#culture #ai #media #socialmedia #hyperreality #cognativedissonance
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Dead Domain put together this wonderful video essay about hyperreality, cognitive dissonance, and the overall lack of connection and meaning in modern day society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinreKJ9Zjo
#culture #ai #media #socialmedia #hyperreality #cognativedissonance
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Dead Domain put together this wonderful video essay about hyperreality, cognitive dissonance, and the overall lack of connection and meaning in modern day society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinreKJ9Zjo
#culture #ai #media #socialmedia #hyperreality #cognativedissonance
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Operation Epic Fury - How Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are selling the Iran war to Americans
"We see the secretary of defense constantly putting [the war] in the framework, the narrative, of a big video game...We're blowing up a lot of stuff, we're killing a lot of people' … it's so distasteful to me...I think there probably is a good reason for why we are doing this, but we're certainly not hearing it from the administration." Professor VanLandingham >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-09/trump-hegseth-white-house-frame-iran-middle-east-war-as-a-game/106427790„Crusades“ and the “Secretary of War” - The man in charge of the world’s most powerful military. "‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war" >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump-iran
#war #hyperreality #media #movies #VideoGames #reality #DesertOfTheReal #spectacles #narratives #crusades #crusader #iconography #extremism #rhetoric #military #justification #GodWillsIt -
Operation Epic Fury - How Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are selling the Iran war to Americans
"We see the secretary of defense constantly putting [the war] in the framework, the narrative, of a big video game...We're blowing up a lot of stuff, we're killing a lot of people' … it's so distasteful to me...I think there probably is a good reason for why we are doing this, but we're certainly not hearing it from the administration." Professor VanLandingham >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-09/trump-hegseth-white-house-frame-iran-middle-east-war-as-a-game/106427790„Crusades“ and the “Secretary of War” - The man in charge of the world’s most powerful military. "‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war" >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump-iran
#war #hyperreality #media #movies #VideoGames #reality #DesertOfTheReal #spectacles #narratives #crusades #crusader #iconography #extremism #rhetoric #military #justification #GodWillsIt -
Operation Epic Fury - How Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are selling the Iran war to Americans
"We see the secretary of defense constantly putting [the war] in the framework, the narrative, of a big video game...We're blowing up a lot of stuff, we're killing a lot of people' … it's so distasteful to me...I think there probably is a good reason for why we are doing this, but we're certainly not hearing it from the administration." Professor VanLandingham >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-09/trump-hegseth-white-house-frame-iran-middle-east-war-as-a-game/106427790„Crusades“ and the “Secretary of War” - The man in charge of the world’s most powerful military. "‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war" >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump-iran
#war #hyperreality #media #movies #VideoGames #reality #DesertOfTheReal #spectacles #narratives #crusades #crusader #iconography #extremism #rhetoric #military #justification #GodWillsIt -
Operation Epic Fury - How Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are selling the Iran war to Americans
"We see the secretary of defense constantly putting [the war] in the framework, the narrative, of a big video game...We're blowing up a lot of stuff, we're killing a lot of people' … it's so distasteful to me...I think there probably is a good reason for why we are doing this, but we're certainly not hearing it from the administration." Professor VanLandingham >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-09/trump-hegseth-white-house-frame-iran-middle-east-war-as-a-game/106427790„Crusades“ and the “Secretary of War” - The man in charge of the world’s most powerful military. "‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war" >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump-iran
#war #hyperreality #media #movies #VideoGames #reality #DesertOfTheReal #spectacles #narratives #crusades #crusader #iconography #extremism #rhetoric #military #justification #GodWillsIt -
Operation Epic Fury - How Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are selling the Iran war to Americans
"We see the secretary of defense constantly putting [the war] in the framework, the narrative, of a big video game...We're blowing up a lot of stuff, we're killing a lot of people' … it's so distasteful to me...I think there probably is a good reason for why we are doing this, but we're certainly not hearing it from the administration." Professor VanLandingham >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-09/trump-hegseth-white-house-frame-iran-middle-east-war-as-a-game/106427790„Crusades“ and the “Secretary of War” - The man in charge of the world’s most powerful military. "‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war" >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump-iran
#war #hyperreality #media #movies #VideoGames #reality #DesertOfTheReal #spectacles #narratives #crusades #crusader #iconography #extremism #rhetoric #military #justification #GodWillsIt -
Disneyland is cover for the fact that the whole country is a Disneyland (Baudrillard)
Matrix is the movie the matrix makes to keep you in the matrix (Damien Walter)
AI is cover for the ongoing project for making everyone less intelligent and capable of participating in the system.
(inspired by Damien Walter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPkRdJ3EwWE -
Disneyland is cover for the fact that the whole country is a Disneyland (Baudrillard)
Matrix is the movie the matrix makes to keep you in the matrix (Damien Walter)
AI is cover for the ongoing project for making everyone less intelligent and capable of participating in the system.
(inspired by Damien Walter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPkRdJ3EwWE -
Disneyland is cover for the fact that the whole country is a Disneyland (Baudrillard)
Matrix is the movie the matrix makes to keep you in the matrix (Damien Walter)
AI is cover for the ongoing project for making everyone less intelligent and capable of participating in the system.
(inspired by Damien Walter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPkRdJ3EwWE -
Disneyland is cover for the fact that the whole country is a Disneyland (Baudrillard)
Matrix is the movie the matrix makes to keep you in the matrix (Damien Walter)
AI is cover for the ongoing project for making everyone less intelligent and capable of participating in the system.
(inspired by Damien Walter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPkRdJ3EwWE -
Disneyland is cover for the fact that the whole country is a Disneyland (Baudrillard)
Matrix is the movie the matrix makes to keep you in the matrix (Damien Walter)
AI is cover for the ongoing project for making everyone less intelligent and capable of participating in the system.
(inspired by Damien Walter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPkRdJ3EwWE -
Imagine closing your eyes after scrolling too long. The shapes behind your eyelids are still luminous, negative imprints of a thousand images. That residue is the new unconscious: bright, restless, algorithmic. We are not haunted by technology. We are haunted through it. #Hauntology #MediaEcology #AttentionEconomy #Hyperreality #CriticalTheory #DigitalCulture
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Imagine closing your eyes after scrolling too long. The shapes behind your eyelids are still luminous, negative imprints of a thousand images. That residue is the new unconscious: bright, restless, algorithmic. We are not haunted by technology. We are haunted through it. #Hauntology #MediaEcology #AttentionEconomy #Hyperreality #CriticalTheory #DigitalCulture
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You don’t need to believe the simulation; you just need to engage. In hyperreality, truth is irrelevant. What matters is circulation. Attention has replaced ontology. To exist is to trend; to vanish is to stop rendering. #Hyperreality #AttentionEconomy
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You don’t need to believe the simulation; you just need to engage. In hyperreality, truth is irrelevant. What matters is circulation. Attention has replaced ontology. To exist is to trend; to vanish is to stop rendering. #Hyperreality #AttentionEconomy
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Influencers perform sincerity as a service. Brands simulate activism with machine learning. Authenticity becomes a genre. The hyperreal object — video, persona, AI intimacy — exists not to reflect the real but to replace the need for it. Participation now outranks belief. #Hyperreality
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Influencers perform sincerity as a service. Brands simulate activism with machine learning. Authenticity becomes a genre. The hyperreal object — video, persona, AI intimacy — exists not to reflect the real but to replace the need for it. Participation now outranks belief. #Hyperreality
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Baudrillard warned that simulation precedes reality. What he missed was how the simulation would start to feel better. Hyperreality isn’t a malfunction; it’s an upgrade. We prefer the copy because the copy looks directly at us. #Hyperreality
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Baudrillard warned that simulation precedes reality. What he missed was how the simulation would start to feel better. Hyperreality isn’t a malfunction; it’s an upgrade. We prefer the copy because the copy looks directly at us. #Hyperreality
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🎩✨ In a groundbreaking exposé, the author postpones his vacation (and laundry) to enlighten us on Cracker Barrel's logo transition—a pivotal moment in American #hyperreality 🙄. If you weren't glued to your screen like a true internet sage, you'd surely miss this earth-shattering revelation about corporate design trends. 😂📱
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-cracker-barrel-hyperreality #HackerNews #CrackerBarrel #LogoDesign #CorporateTrends #InternetSage #HackerNews #ngated -
🎩✨ In a groundbreaking exposé, the author postpones his vacation (and laundry) to enlighten us on Cracker Barrel's logo transition—a pivotal moment in American #hyperreality 🙄. If you weren't glued to your screen like a true internet sage, you'd surely miss this earth-shattering revelation about corporate design trends. 😂📱
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-cracker-barrel-hyperreality #HackerNews #CrackerBarrel #LogoDesign #CorporateTrends #InternetSage #HackerNews #ngated -
🎩✨ In a groundbreaking exposé, the author postpones his vacation (and laundry) to enlighten us on Cracker Barrel's logo transition—a pivotal moment in American #hyperreality 🙄. If you weren't glued to your screen like a true internet sage, you'd surely miss this earth-shattering revelation about corporate design trends. 😂📱
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-cracker-barrel-hyperreality #HackerNews #CrackerBarrel #LogoDesign #CorporateTrends #InternetSage #HackerNews #ngated -
🎩✨ In a groundbreaking exposé, the author postpones his vacation (and laundry) to enlighten us on Cracker Barrel's logo transition—a pivotal moment in American #hyperreality 🙄. If you weren't glued to your screen like a true internet sage, you'd surely miss this earth-shattering revelation about corporate design trends. 😂📱
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-cracker-barrel-hyperreality #HackerNews #CrackerBarrel #LogoDesign #CorporateTrends #InternetSage #HackerNews #ngated -
CW: Postmodernism's Hyperreal of Intelligence And The Unrequited Lovemaking Of The English Language. (but really it is about Moldbug)
Notice: This post is not about postmodernism's bad writing, but about Moldbug.
Brother sent me a 90 minutes documentary (read: opinion piece).
It was made entirely of stock footage and named "How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult" clearly (read: possibly) inspired by Adam Curtis's documentaries (read: opinion pieces) made entirely of stock footage - "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" and especially "HyperNormalisation". Instead of Adam Curtis's matter of a fact BBC English accented narrator voice, we have a stoner Murikan, which I am told is actually a Canadian, quipping along the way.
And he is using the term "hyperreal". It annoys me. The "hyperreal" is a weird neologism the narrator names the normal word "delusion". It is a virtual reality people go into in states of crisis. People who go into "hyperreality" (read: delusions) build their life around it and sometime have others for company, like an unfunny comedian opening a new comedy club just for him and his posse. In the video the narrator keeps talking about a cult leader (read: a famous podcasting comedian) opening a cult compound (read: comedy club) for his cultists (read: the famous comedian's posse and audience), prefering to believe in comfortable lies instead of harsh truths, followers pretending to laugh at jokes made by their dear leader that would leave normal people deadpan just to keep their cult leader's ego well petted and secure their position at the comedy club. As you already know, there is only one reality and many opinions each based on good or bad reasons. When you base your opinions on bad reasons you are deluding yourself, so when the cultists mentioned in the 90 minutes opinion piece go into "hyperreality" why not just call it "delusion" like a normal person?
The term "hyperreality" comes from a certain brand of pseudoscience called "Postmodernism". One of its well known problems is inventing words for words for which we already have words. The word "delusion" is one of those words which the new unecessary word "hyperreatily" was invented. The new words are often fancy long ones thrown into the mix as chaff, to confuse the reader into believing that a superior intellect had written it.
In closing, Postmodernism is trying too hard and needs to take some writing classes. It may benefit in reading this bit by George Orwell:
p.s. forget about postmodernism and all that crap! That's yesterday's news because Moldbug won! In the end of the video the stoner guy says J.D. Vance is one of Moldbug's avid readers and Moldbug's crap was hugely influential on the current Murikan politics. And even though Moldbug's crap was partially a sort of a reaction to postmodernism, postmodernism doesn't matter anymore, because Moldbug won! If you do not know who Moldbug is, it means we are doomed. So in closing closing, have a nice weekend.
p.s.s. Moldbug's Neoreactionary writing is at least on par with postmodernism's writing in terms of bad writing. They are dark mirrors of each other. The bad writers that killed liberal democracy. I like that. So in closing closing closing, have a nice evening.
#comedy #delusion #elephantgraveyard #english #georgeorwell #hyperreal #hyperreality #joerogan #moldbug #postmodernism #standup #standupcomedy #wordsalad
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Early records had no real liner notes. You got a paper sleeve, then a front photo with maybe songs listed on the back. It wasn't until maybe Magical Mystery Tour's mini book that I really started to find detailed bio or content.
Given the foundational musics had an urgency (the music reflected their situation) and then their multi release contracts often bound them to that style to make a repeatable commodity, and then their styles became top ten by folks who never saw that original situation and the commodity Producer hires design, art, photos, essays, "value adds" I suppose? 😅
I seem to recall a pop 'superstar' box set pumped with personal photos causing someone to remark the next will need his baby photos.
Like, how much do we really need to know? It's music 🤣 Miles Davis "On the Corner" gives no clues other than what I just told you but that was enough to put my money down 😊
#Simulacra and #hyperreality come to mind.
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Early records had no real liner notes. You got a paper sleeve, then a front photo with maybe songs listed on the back. It wasn't until maybe Magical Mystery Tour's mini book that I really started to find detailed bio or content.
Given the foundational musics had an urgency (the music reflected their situation) and then their multi release contracts often bound them to that style to make a repeatable commodity, and then their styles became top ten by folks who never saw that original situation and the commodity Producer hires design, art, photos, essays, "value adds" I suppose? 😅
I seem to recall a pop 'superstar' box set pumped with personal photos causing someone to remark the next will need his baby photos.
Like, how much do we really need to know? It's music 🤣 Miles Davis "On the Corner" gives no clues other than what I just told you but that was enough to put my money down 😊
#Simulacra and #hyperreality come to mind.
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Early records had no real liner notes. You got a paper sleeve, then a front photo with maybe songs listed on the back. It wasn't until maybe Magical Mystery Tour's mini book that I really started to find detailed bio or content.
Given the foundational musics had an urgency (the music reflected their situation) and then their multi release contracts often bound them to that style to make a repeatable commodity, and then their styles became top ten by folks who never saw that original situation and the commodity Producer hires design, art, photos, essays, "value adds" I suppose? 😅
I seem to recall a pop 'superstar' box set pumped with personal photos causing someone to remark the next will need his baby photos.
Like, how much do we really need to know? It's music 🤣 Miles Davis "On the Corner" gives no clues other than what I just told you but that was enough to put my money down 😊
#Simulacra and #hyperreality come to mind.
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Early records had no real liner notes. You got a paper sleeve, then a front photo with maybe songs listed on the back. It wasn't until maybe Magical Mystery Tour's mini book that I really started to find detailed bio or content.
Given the foundational musics had an urgency (the music reflected their situation) and then their multi release contracts often bound them to that style to make a repeatable commodity, and then their styles became top ten by folks who never saw that original situation and the commodity Producer hires design, art, photos, essays, "value adds" I suppose? 😅
I seem to recall a pop 'superstar' box set pumped with personal photos causing someone to remark the next will need his baby photos.
Like, how much do we really need to know? It's music 🤣 Miles Davis "On the Corner" gives no clues other than what I just told you but that was enough to put my money down 😊
#Simulacra and #hyperreality come to mind.
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Early records had no real liner notes. You got a paper sleeve, then a front photo with maybe songs listed on the back. It wasn't until maybe Magical Mystery Tour's mini book that I really started to find detailed bio or content.
Given the foundational musics had an urgency (the music reflected their situation) and then their multi release contracts often bound them to that style to make a repeatable commodity, and then their styles became top ten by folks who never saw that original situation and the commodity Producer hires design, art, photos, essays, "value adds" I suppose? 😅
I seem to recall a pop 'superstar' box set pumped with personal photos causing someone to remark the next will need his baby photos.
Like, how much do we really need to know? It's music 🤣 Miles Davis "On the Corner" gives no clues other than what I just told you but that was enough to put my money down 😊
#Simulacra and #hyperreality come to mind.
