chanandre

28Sep12

loved all of it and your insightful post but you lost me at the coda, man: "I think that the topic is a quite important one, and it goes by different names depending on which philosopher we’re talking about. Baudrillard calls it the hyperreal, Virilio calls it the dromosphere, Vattimo the transparent society, Lyotard the postmodern condition. But I think the concept of electracy best gets at what we’re dealing with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electracy Whether the condition of speed we’re living in now will someday erase our ability to contemplate is very much in the air, but I think that there’s a way in which all of these ways of looking at our current moment stress elements related to contemplation, like the emphasis on sensual experience and “body knowledge.” I think that this might be the way that cinema will be retained even in an age when a glorious film like Shame will get left on the cultural scrapheap.". I can't see the greatness in Shame. Do elaborate...