Stories in Digital Media

Reading one of my favourite magazines, Vice, I stumbled across an interesting interview with contemporary British philosopher Simon Critchley. The interviewer is not very good, probably he had no idea of what he should ask, but nevertheless, Critchley pointed out some interesting thoughts.

We are not even consumerist; we are a society of distraction, idle talk, and ambiguity. Everybody knows everything has happened, everything is automatically trivial, and, again, nothing means anything. This is the world of blogging, the fake world of Facebook, the world that compensates for an absent set of social experiences. There are virtues to social-networking sites, I’m sure, but you feel an awful vacuum at the heart of them.

The whole interview. Simon Critchley.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 at 11:56 by Andre and is filed under Culture, Theory.