Wreck it Ralph vs 15 Million Merits - Post- Modern?

FRIDAY 25TH WORK

DUBORD'S CONCEPT

- Style over substance
-Obsessed with our appearance and looking at others
-Its all about imitation, copying, image.
-society of the spectacle


X factor

-not about originality
-not about the art of musical songwriting
-all about imitation and being the ideal image

Social Networking

-our phones, social sites ect, say who we are
-our lives are charted on Facebook
-all about making ourselves look good
avatars
all about the outside, no one no longer cares about peoples feelings, we are all empty.



BAUDRILLARDS CONCEPT

-hyper real
-simulation/ simulacra

X factor

-obsessed with shows that allow us to escape form reality
-rather laugh or immerse ourselves in others pity or sob stories than deal with our own

Social Networking

-escape into our Facebook profiles, scared of reality
-distraction form reality
-simulations = avatars

FOCAULTS CONCEPT

-The panopticon - the perfect prison where the entire prison is visible and under surveillance
-being watched

X factor

-we enjoy watching people
-even if we are watching a distorted version of the truth we still immerse in the stories.

Social Networking

-gives us control of voyeurism, we control who we watch and when
- we have no control who is watching us

Black Mirror - 15 Million Merits