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habitual
internal rhythm;
flow of action
and acting
of representation and performance
raised to a new convention…
a basic need.
(Williams, 1975, p. 7)
Baz Kershaw—A Found Poem
spectacles of deconstruction in the performative society
mediatization
disperses performance
through culture: the eye of the camera
the ear of the microphone
the body of the keyboard
the extra finger of the mouse
everything as performance
(for someone else and
crucially
for ourselves)
mediatization coupled to liberal democracy
to late-capitalism
the market at the heart of the social
ubiquitous and spectacular:
politicians perform
shares perform
life-styles perform
(the ghost in the global machine is a performer and we are that ghost)
every vision of disaster
every fantasy of civilization
the spectacle of knowledge itself