The media's been playing their own game with our perceptions for a long time. Always have, always will. I hope it doesn't take 40 years to start regretfully reexamining the media's portrayal of our time in Iraq and Afghanistan, but I fear it will.
Repetition qua truth is an archimedean point, a pivot point, upon which much rests, e.g., huge swaths of the New Left's march through the institutions.
And no, there's nothing oracular about that any of that, it's mundane and pervasive.
The fact it is pervasive coupled with the additional fact late moderns in their ideological mode deem themselves to be above and beyond certain "premodern" (the term carries both rational and irrational connotations) and even early modern forms is a reflection of why we may in fact be in some real trouble. I tend toward more optimism that that, but do suspect there are some profoundly troubling prospects afoot.
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"The Media, the Image, the Myth"
and the Repetitions.
Repetition qua truth is an archimedean point, a pivot point, upon which much rests, e.g., huge swaths of the New Left's march through the institutions.
And no, there's nothing oracular about that any of that, it's mundane and pervasive.
The fact it is pervasive coupled with the additional fact late moderns in their ideological mode deem themselves to be above and beyond certain "premodern" (the term carries both rational and irrational connotations) and even early modern forms is a reflection of why we may in fact be in some real trouble. I tend toward more optimism that that, but do suspect there are some profoundly troubling prospects afoot.