Latest version of my presentation of the 'media life' concept, based on the 2012 book (published with Polity Press), used for talks in Finland, Holland, Australia, Brasil, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Germany, and elsewhere throughout 2014.

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3. a Truman Show delusion
living in media
WWZD

4. living in media

6. “just as water constitutes an
a priori condition for the fish,
so do media for humans.”

7. “Of what is significant in one’s
own existence one is hardly
aware...What does a fish
know about the water in
which he swims all his life?”

8. media as artifacts
media as activities
media as arrangements

9. media life: artifacts

18. media life: activities

24. media life: arrangements

25. Brussels– October 1996
Moldavia – April 2009
Oekraïne – November 2004
Seattle – November 1999

26. Caïro – January 2011

27. Madrid – May 2011

28. London – August 2011

30. New York – September 2011

31. worldwide – March 2012

32. Ukraine – 2014

33. “we begin to become aware of just how much of
our reality is open source and up for discussion.”
Douglas Rushkoff

42. a Truman Show delusion
living in media
WWZD

43. a Truman Show delusion

46. INTERVIEWER
Why do you feel that
Truman’s never come close to
discovering the true nature of
his world?
CHRISTOF
We accept the reality
of the world with which we’re
presented.

50. 1. there is the sense that the ordinary is changed
or different, and that there is particular
significance in this
1. this is coupled with a searching for meaning
1. a profound alteration of subjective experience
and of self-awareness, resulting in an unstable
first-person perspective with varieties of
depersonalization and derealization, disturbed
sense of ownership, fluidity of the basic sense of
identity, distortions of the stream of
consciousness and experiences of
disembodiment.

52. a Truman Show delusion
living in media
WWZD

53. WWZD

70. zombie artefacts

71. zombie activities

72. zombie arrangements

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