Bodily proximity forces a sincerity that media stardom structurally cannot achieve.

Evidence

Reacting against a certain (mediatized, capitalist) attention economy which disproportionately increases the visibility of certain prominent beings through the mechanical concentration of an enormous quantity of attention, 1:1 scale endeavours to establish an attention ecology which maintains ‘a certain continuity in relationships’ and which clears a privileged space of sincerity and authenticity. But an ecology of this kind is in a certain sense inherent in the basic coordinates of the live performance. Despite all the media glamour that deifies the status of stars, a theatre stage, a rock club or a basketball court allow us to see bodies, in all of their vulnerability and frailty. However doped the athlete, however self-important the star, there is a certain form of ‘sincerity’ established by bodily proximity. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 301

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the Benjaminian split by arguing live proximity has its own sincerity value rather than being restored aura — worth comparing to Erving Goffman on co-presence. — connects to: Subjectivity requires physical proximity to other attentive bodies that media cannot replace. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 303; Ordinary fame rests on unfiltered emotion, not representativeness. — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame…, 68; Classic celebrity discourse centers on the gap between image and the real person — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 196