technology in postmodern culture
One aspect of postmodern culture is our being mesmerized by technological devices which have helped erode the separation between the private and public. Critically discuss the ways in which texting both enhances and decreases social interaction and intimacy.
It seems that individuals have been arguing about what is natural and what is not from the beginning of time. The original and natural product is very rarely found that professions have been created to find the origins of objects. Similar to Darwin’s discovery of the Galapagos Island, the idea of the ‘first’ and evolution is something that is questioned frequently. In the case of the Galapagos Island, very few people are allowed to visit in order to not create an interruption with the growth of the natural habitat. In contrast, we live in a world where we need to constantly evolve within seconds. Stories are birthed in seconds and somehow everyone knows about it before it can be reported through the news. Texting has created that instantaneous form of communication without ever needing to meet someone to hear it. In the Boudrillard article, it discusses art and how “it should be an affirmation- not an attempt to bring order. But simply waking up to the life we are living, which is so excellent, once one gets ones mind and one’s desires out of the way and lets it act of its own accord.” (62) This is a great example of how texting has transformed our way of living. We are now no longer living in the moment or letting life “act on its own accord”, we are editing, copying, pasting, and explaining our messages to alter ourselves in order to be who we want to be. Texting has created the question amongst many of what might be real versus what is altered. It is evident that texting and technological communication has helped many towards success but it has also created a society that no longer lives in the moment and is constantly living in the future. Texting creates the awareness of
It seems that individuals have been arguing about what is natural and what is not from the beginning of time. The original and natural product is very rarely found that professions have been created to find the origins of objects. Similar to Darwin’s discovery of the Galapagos Island, the idea of the ‘first’ and evolution is something that is questioned frequently. In the case of the Galapagos Island, very few people are allowed to visit in order to not create an interruption with the growth of the natural habitat. In contrast, we live in a world where we need to constantly evolve within seconds. Stories are birthed in seconds and somehow everyone knows about it before it can be reported through the news. Texting has created that instantaneous form of communication without ever needing to meet someone to hear it. In the Boudrillard article, it discusses art and how “it should be an affirmation- not an attempt to bring order. But simply waking up to the life we are living, which is so excellent, once one gets ones mind and one’s desires out of the way and lets it act of its own accord.” (62) This is a great example of how texting has transformed our way of living. We are now no longer living in the moment or letting life “act on its own accord”, we are editing, copying, pasting, and explaining our messages to alter ourselves in order to be who we want to be. Texting has created the question amongst many of what might be real versus what is altered. It is evident that texting and technological communication has helped many towards success but it has also created a society that no longer lives in the moment and is constantly living in the future. Texting creates the awareness of
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