Maya Nots of meeting feb 18

Scene and the mirror is lost
screen and network are now most important.

We associate ourselves with an object and therefore associate ourselves with the value that the objects

The screen and the network
We are the screen the network are things like the internet, myspace, facebook
Network represents the global you, personal identity is lost and we no longer have control over what we want to associate ourselves with

Dominance culture if we are a screen culture then who is controlling the screen? Who ever is controlling the mass commercial or consumerism then controls the screen.

TV is production, use, reproduction, a representation, circulation, distribution and consumption, reproduction. A weird continuous loop with a variety of variables.

War situation something’s blows up, witnesses report to reporter, translate to news reporter, distributed to the network, maybe the network reproduces it at the stage of and the cycle begins again.

Weird tv shows like Unsolved mysteries, hypothesize on an event that happen and therefore they reproduce an event that happiness and only through this reproduction does it become history.
Construct a narrative from a variety of scenes and reality is constantly under debate. Film documentaries, only one story or narrative of reality.

The Hills, reality show, but the shots are so perfect that it looks like a well-constructed reality.

Universalities of codes, but everyone needs to know the encoded message

The message must be identified in order to be understood, advertisements where you are not sure what they are advertising, but it is so mass distributed that it becomes widely accepted before the product comes out

Object can have multiple meanings


Communication is now obscene?

So useless that don’t actually add to our life, very intimate and out of context that we can not properly decode the messages we receive.

Forced extraversion of information and ideas.

Network to the internet?
Is this abundance of information and communication a bad thing?
Do we have to access this network? We can choose not to look at things we see as being obscene?
Spam, pop ups, things that don’t add to our life are also things that we can not control.

Everything is obscene. In the past there were common morals but after PM anything goes, the degree of obscenity depend on our own morals

News--- gulf war is the first media coverage, PM war, but the war now completely controlled by the media, secrete messages are sent through tv shows like 24 about how to think about the war in Iraq

User generated content. Lebanon and is real placing things on the cell phone cameras, it was different than having pre packaged news.

All history is just a narrative? How do you apply moral judgment on one or the other. If obscene is all information we are still applying moral judgment.

Internet has become our everything, new education, past time, try and find something that is similar in the past and is more moral. Verses Catholicism. Its own pre packaged, one common view operating with in the predominant code. Verse the internet that opens up the number of sources and views and relies on you to decode them based on your own source.
Scholarly journals corporate controls
News still package information under dominant beliefs
We are not allowed to use things like Wikapedia as a credible source, but when a false statement is made there are a series of checks and balances.
Encyclopedia britanica had more inaccurate facts in them then Wikapedia who’s information could be changed in real time.

What is the difference between the news editing and selecting information that they consider to be news worthy and the fashion industry that lets you know what style is in and out.

We are now in a new form of schizophrenia… we are listening to a variety of voices and not quite sure where our own voice is anymore.