I know these blog posts are supposed to demonstrate our understanding of the text, and I really wanted to do a solid analysis here where I would go through the section bit by bit and really dig into what he was talking about. But, that would not be very new media of me, now would it? New media isn't about analysis, it's about using cultural capital in a way the restates what has come before in a new way. Ultimately, the last section spoke to the idea that new media is becoming more cinematic, and this section spoke to the idea that cinema, via the use of search filtering from a template and compositing from multiple camera angles, allows temporal montage to create fake reality (149). All of this leads to "a new and unique kind of power--real time remote control" (169). This control, exerted through the new media, destroys objects relation to each other rendering the notions of distance and space meaningless" (175). What does this mean to me? Peer into my window. Behold my cultural capital, remixed. Filtered, a new reality emerges: a rift in space and time:
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