Reality TV defeats the working-class drive for transcendence

Evidence

This is Celebreality: the simultaneous desublimation of the Star and the elevation of “the ordinary”. … Second, because Big Brother trades in a patronising and reductive image of the working class, the dominion of Celebreality relies upon the mediocrats inducing the working class into corresponding to — and “identifying with” — that image. Third, because Big Brother and reality TV have effaced those areas of popular culture in which a working class that aspired to more than “wealth” or “fame” once excelled. Its rise has meant a defeat for that over-reaching proletarian drive to be more, (I am nothing but should be everything), a drive which negated Social Facts by inventing Sonic Fictions, which despised “ordinariness” in the name of the strange and the alien. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 400

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Working-class achievement necessarily erases the origins it proves — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1100

Broader Connections

• Working-class achievement necessarily erases the origins it proves #corroborates (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1100