Television as constitutive of consciousness — the EUP genetics seedbed
echoes
From: Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young
- Early text: "the American generation born after, say, 1955 is the
first for whom television is something to be lived with, not just looked at";
"We quite literally cannot “imagine” life without it"; TV's ways of seeing
"have entered into complicated relations with our very ideas of the world and
the self". [the television section] [e-text]
- IJ echo: IJ's whole televisual-entertainment substrate — the InterLace
culture, the Entertainment, the argument (carried forward in EUP) that TV has
entered "complicated relations with our very ideas of the world and the self."
That formulation is byte-exact in this 1988 essay — the
1988 piece is EUP's documented seed, and EUP is the essay the archive already
treats as IJ's aesthetic charter.
- Weight: prefiguration (genetics)