Ubiquitous taping destroys the illusion that an unmediated real exists

Evidence

Yet Warhol understood that tape recording did not capture an unmediated real. Rather — and as Warhol’s admirer Jean Baudrillard recognised — ubiquitous taping destroyed any illusion that such a real existed. Instead, there would now only be an anxious and unanswerable question: are those who are recorded performing for the tape or the camera? — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 769

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the grafting/roots aesthetic concerns of the reader’s media analysis, though more directly it echoes ch29’s point that consumerist reality is knowingly self-simulated with no orchestrator behind it.
• XREF: connects to: Reality constitutes itself by repressing an unrepresentable Real — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 40; Illusion is impossible today because the real itself is no longer possible — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 73; Rejecting all appearance as false illusion leads to losing truth itself — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 552 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Reality constitutes itself by repressing an unrepresentable Real #corroborates (0.82) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 40
• Recorded audio is engineered for plausibility, not faithful reproduction of reality #expands (0.82) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1801
• Simulation substitutes signs of the real for the real itself #corroborates (0.82) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 9
• Illusion is impossible today because the real itself is no longer possible #expands (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 73
• Technological transformation of physical nature erases the dimension of contradiction in lived reality #corroborates (0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 305
• Instrumentalizing communication has destroyed our sense of truth itself #expands (0.78) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 378
• Rejecting all appearance as false illusion leads to losing truth itself #complicates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 552
• A hegemonic realism retroactively erases cultural possibilities it cannot absorb #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1009
• Doubling in reality signals something important is being denied #expands (0.72) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 25
• Authenticity as full self-identity is impossible because iterability makes self-presence unattainable in principle #complicates (0.72) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 767