Media hyperrealisation enables rather than cancels real mass deaths

Evidence

“Realists” who attacked Baudrillard and Virilio for their insistence upon the fact that war is now constitutively mediatised missed the point that hyperrealisation is precisely what permits the production of very real deaths on a mass scale. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1452

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dehumanizing media coverage kills people symbolically before physical death; Media convergence can constitute reality rather than merely representing it. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 19; Mediatized terror treats media as constitutive rather than reflective of conflict — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 359 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Dehumanizing media coverage kills people symbolically before physical death #expands (0.85)
• Media convergence can constitute reality rather than merely representing it. #corroborates (0.85) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 19
• Mediatized terror treats media as constitutive rather than reflective of conflict #corroborates (0.80) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 359