Regular television presence yields a peculiar spatial selfhood unavailable to any other fame

Evidence

Some people must go crazy when they realize how much space they’ve managed to command. If you were the star of the biggest show on television and took a walk down an average American street one night while you were on the air, and if you looked through windows and saw yourself on television in everybody’s living room, taking up some of their space, can you imagine how you would feel? I don’t think anybody, no matter how famous they are in other fields, could ever feel as peculiar as a television star. Not even the biggest rock star whose records are playing on sound systems everywhere he goes could feel as peculiar as someone who knows he’s on everybody’s television regularly. No matter how small he is, he has all the space anyone could ever want, right there in the television box. — Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, 511

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Television creates a false intimacy that substitutes for real community engagement — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 837; TV talk shows deliberately engineer an illusion of intimacy with audiences — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 774; Television of the 1950s was built around charismatic personalities rather than plot — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 449 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Micro-celebrity status can be imposed by media regardless of self-presentation #expands (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 345
• Television creates a false intimacy that substitutes for real community engagement #complicates (0.75) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 837
• Television of the 1950s was built around charismatic personalities rather than plot #expands (0.75) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 449
• TV talk shows deliberately engineer an illusion of intimacy with audiences #complicates (0.72) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 774
• Reality TV decoupled celebrity from objective merit or achievement #complicates (0.72) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 844