Volume 9, No 1, 2012
Internet And Culture: Virtual Reality As The Objective Neurosis Of The Future
C Padmanabhan
Abstract
Media has assumed a hugely significant role in contemporary life. This significance can no longer be limited to the mediatory role that has traditionally been assigned to it. Of course, it mediates between the human beings and the world of reality that s/he is assumed to live in. It is wedged between the human subject and her/his social, political and cultural contexts. But it is wedged precisely in between the human subject and reality because there happens to be a schism between this subject and the real world around it. Like an umbilical cord it mediates between the subject and the pervasive historical context. The model gets all the more complicated when media is wedged between the citizen of the postcolonial world and the hegemonic discourses that surround him or her.
Pages: 1-7
Keywords: All this is true if only we were sure of the “actual” reality of the pervasively historical situation out there.