Technology Essay Samples
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| [...] One of the most striking features of the visual culture is the growing tendency to visualize things that are not in themselves visual. Allied to this intellectual move is the growing technological capacity to make visible things that our eyes could not see unaided, such as the photography. The wiring of the world and the rapid development of wireless communications have lead to a globalization of culture. Combined with the growth of media, this globalization created a synergy in which programming and distribution are held together by single corporate entities, which market globally. As a result, contradictory tendencies have been encouraged, on one hand towards globally shared visual cultures but also towards the rise of an abundance of local discourses and mixed media cultures (Sturken & Cartwright, 2001, pp. 315 – 316). [...] |
| [...] Durden’s mind, nonetheless, has the way of sorting things out by itself. In respond to the hollowness of the you-is-what-you-consume capitalist world, another Durden is created, and his goal is to make the old Durden knows that the image he created around himself is unreal. The first thing the new Durden do to his old self is blowing up his own condo, the one in which he described as “when you buy furniture, you tell yourself: that's it, that's the last sofa I'm gonna need. No matter what else happens, I've got that sofa problem handled. I had it all. I had a stereo that was very decent, a wardrobe that was getting very respectable. I was so close to being completeâ€. [...] |
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