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2023

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The Dangerous Loss Of Meaning Through Consumerist Practices, Johan Rosario Apr 2023

The Dangerous Loss Of Meaning Through Consumerist Practices, Johan Rosario

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The internet appears and it is a better television, a better radio, and a better way of transmitting information to one another, but is this information actually being communicated? In this essay, I will be looking at Jodi Dean’s Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive to describe how an overabundance of content provided by the internet renders all content meaningless, and the ways in which engagement with the internet generates more behaviors in people whose purpose is purely the act of communication, and not at all the contents of what is being communicated. Finally, I will …