Media’s total mobilization makes communication of transcending contents technically impossible
Evidence
For the expression of this other order, which is transcendence within the one world, the poetic language depends on the transcendent elements in ordinary language. However, the total mobilization of all media for the defense of the established reality has coordinated the means of expression to the point where communication of transcending contents becomes technically impossible. The spectre that has haunted the artistic consciousness since Mallarmé—the impossibility of speaking a non-reified language, of communicating the negative—has ceased to be a spectre. It has materialized. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 312
Categorization
- XREF: Direct bridge to attention-economy reading: coordinated media make transcendent content incommunicable — the structural precondition for attention capture. — connects to: Media-code structure makes revolutions and radical redistribution impossible; Broadcast communication between elites and audiences is systematically distorted by structure — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 783; The internal structure of communication codes makes radical redistribution impossible. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 765 (+3 more)
- SEED: Article angle: the ‘impossibility of speaking a non-reified language’ mapped onto modern platform speech.
Broader Connections
- Media-code structure makes revolutions and radical redistribution impossible
#expands(0.85) - The internal structure of communication codes makes radical redistribution impossible.
#expands(0.85) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 765 - Broadcast communication between elites and audiences is systematically distorted by structure
#expands(0.82) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 783 - Instrumentalizing communication has destroyed our sense of truth itself
#expands(0.78) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 378 - Instrumentalized communication destroys the possibility of shared truth
#expands(0.78) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 378 - Without a legitimate platform, counter-narratives cannot be effectively voiced
#corroborates(0.72) — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 215