Maya Ectasy of Communication response

Trying to find the control Z in life


This was a difficult reading, and more difficult to come to conclusions about the way our lives are now verses our relations to objects in the past. Why are we so critical about a state of transcendence and fantasy? It sounds like a more enriched life over being transformed into a blank screen for communications networks to broadcast over. Are we trading one evil for another? Do we no longer fantasize because now our "bodies, landscapes and cultural spaces are disappearing as our brain becomes the most important organ?

Have we really began to loose both public and private space, or have we just entered a new way of defining what public and private mean in a world where nothing is obscene anymore?


Do images really pass through me? Am I just a walking billboard? Am I really that transparent?

Notes from the reading:

Transcendence and fantasy verses value association have been loss to a communication screen and network that is narcissistic; using connections, contact, cognitively, feedback and a generalized interface.
Instead we are in control of a hypothetical machine that exists in a simulated world of hyper realism.
There is a tendency towards 3 things
1). a displacement of the body
2). miniaturization of the "real" scene
3). formal operation of abstract elements and functions are combined into a single virtual process
"Where is my ctrl alt delete in life?"
After dropping or spilling something I find myself looking for the ctrl z or ctrl y. Where is it if I am just a blank screen?
When I loose something I look for the search option. Will we become so virtual that one day I might find it?

Hot Sexual obscenity is replaced with cold communicational, contextual obscenity through a communication network of "superficial saturation."

Baudrillard concluded that this scene excites us and this new obscene fascinates us. Why? Is it because we can finally uncover all the secretes. What fun will that be when all the secretes are exposed in this world that lacks interior and intimacy, what will fascinate us then?