variousing
Perfection hints at unity and synthesis, *; i prefer the opening out of an embrace of diversity. The demography of * is the demography of society itself; but the occluded, one-remove nature of cyber offers distortions - some of which are good and interesting and some of which are tiresome and destructive. Jordan is a simulacrum (a kind of fake) - as you intimate; but she is also a rational symptom and effect of wider impulses present in society itself. There is nothing new about her plasticity; everyone from Nero to Joseph Beuys, from Gilbert and George to Howard Hughes, has played the game of self-invention.
posted by murmurists at 4:19 am
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Yes, cyberculture can go either way ... Ballard saw a lot of this coming decades ago.
Perhaps a society gets the simulacra it deserves ... though what have we done to deserve Jordan?
Interestingly, though, Ms Price (as was) shows no sign of being taken in or destroyed by the process of turning herself into a simulacrum ... a fate that awaits many a not particularly smart celeb manque.
It is, of course, a dismal sign of the cancer-like spread of celeb culture that I, who prides himself on being a high brow who never watches the programmes and never reads the magazines that propagate this disease, am aware, against my wishes, that Jordan was, at one point, a human being named Katie Price.
I don't wish to know this but do.
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