The internal psychological space has been fully penetrated by the media landscape
Evidence
If art pop had a landscape it would be the aggressively anti-naturalistic one Ferry collaged together on “Virginia Plain” (named after one of his paintings, which was itself named after a brand of tobacco). Is this an internal landscape, what the mind’s eye sees? Perhaps. But only if we recognise that — as Hamilton’s collage and Ballard’s fiction insist — in the late-twentieth century the “space” of the internal-psychological was completely penetrated by what Ballard calls the media landscape. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 880
Categorization
- XREF: Extends the Ballardian ‘inner space’ thesis that recurs across ch43 and reappears in the figure-ground media-landscape discussion. This is a core Fisher claim already partly logged, so keep only if it adds the media-landscape mechanism distinctly. — connects to: Mass media transmit behavioral prescriptions rather than mirror real life — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 240; Mass media consumption can harm mental states and distort perceptions of reality — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 663; Mass media weaponize psychoanalytic depth psychology against consumers as ‘psychoanalysis in reverse’ — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 241 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Media presence itself becomes the model that precedes and drains meaning from events
#corroborates(0.90) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 187 - Mass media transmit behavioral prescriptions rather than mirror real life
#expands(0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 240 - Mass media weaponize psychoanalytic depth psychology against consumers as ‘psychoanalysis in reverse’
#expands(0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 241 - Mass media consumption can harm mental states and distort perceptions of reality
#expands(0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 663 - Hyper-individualized attention ironically enslaves people to media rather than freeing them
#corroborates(0.80) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1139 - Media’s lasting effect is an interpretive frame, not blurred perception
#complicates(0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 342