Tuesday 8 March 2011

Liveness – performance in a mediatised culture

“Mediatised performance is performance that is circulated on television, as audio or video recordings, and in other forms based in technologies of reproduction. Baudrillard’s own definition is more expansive: “What is mediatised is not what comes off the daily press, out of the tube, or on the radio: it is what is reinterpreted by the sign of form, articulated into models, and administered by the code” (Baudrillard 1981:175-6). For Baudrilard, meditisation is not simply a neutral term describing products of the media. Rather, he sees the media as instrumental in a larger, socio-political process of bringing all discourses under the dominance of a single code.”
(Auslander 1999: 4-5)

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