Modern life erodes integrated experience, replacing narration with information and shocks

Evidence

Both he and Benjamin saw an erosion of true experience [Erfahrungen] as characteristic of modern life. One example that Benjamin gave - the replacement of coherent narration by dissociated information as the dominant mode of communication — was also used by Ernst Krenek in his essay on radio music. Another, the increase of traumatic shocks as stimuli in modern life, also found an echo in the Institut’s various psychosocial studies. A third, the role of the crowd in Baudelaire’s work, was a frequent motif in the Institut’s work on mass culture. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 623

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The replacement of coherent narration by dissociated information connects to the theme of communication technology reshaping human experience.
• XREF: connects to: Media’s pseudo-realism infuses everyday life with meanings that block direct experience — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 234; Daily life changes under postmodernity must be deduced after the fact rather than experienced — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 752; Experience arrives pre-charged with meaning rather than as raw sense data — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 490 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Media’s pseudo-realism infuses everyday life with meanings that block direct experience #corroborates (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 234
• Daily life changes under postmodernity must be deduced after the fact rather than experienced #corroborates (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 752
• Social media stories create a simultaneous temporality built on speed and impermanence #exemplifies (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 94
• Event-spectacle media culture causes the postmodern collapse of time horizons #corroborates (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 394
• Experience arrives pre-charged with meaning rather than as raw sense data #expands (0.78) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 490
• Treating time as a series of nows annihilates past, present, and future alike #corroborates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 408