Recensione per la rivista internazionale "Mobile media & communication" The book consists of five chapters that analyze the five main domains in which present shock can be more clearly identified, and proposes a set of neologisms to describe the concept: Digiprhenia is defined as “the way our media encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time” (p. 7), referring to always on connectivity and to our multiple “virtual selves”; Overwinding is the effort “to squish really big timescales into much smaller” ones (p. 136), as many adults live in a “short forever” (p. 139), based on the idea that a particular stage of their lives is better than the others; Fractalnoia is presented as a syndrome that describes our sometimes misleading need to find patterns between different systems, as we make sense of the world “only in the present tense” (p. 198); the uncertainties of present shock, a condition that does not provide any ends or beginnings, lead to Apocalypto, the widespread dream of an apocalypse.
Book review: Douglas Rushkoff, Present shock / Comunello, Francesca. - In: MOBILE MEDIA & COMMUNICATION. - ISSN 2050-1579. - STAMPA. - 2 (2):(2014), pp. 228-229.
Book review: Douglas Rushkoff, Present shock
COMUNELLO, FRANCESCA
2014
Abstract
Recensione per la rivista internazionale "Mobile media & communication" The book consists of five chapters that analyze the five main domains in which present shock can be more clearly identified, and proposes a set of neologisms to describe the concept: Digiprhenia is defined as “the way our media encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time” (p. 7), referring to always on connectivity and to our multiple “virtual selves”; Overwinding is the effort “to squish really big timescales into much smaller” ones (p. 136), as many adults live in a “short forever” (p. 139), based on the idea that a particular stage of their lives is better than the others; Fractalnoia is presented as a syndrome that describes our sometimes misleading need to find patterns between different systems, as we make sense of the world “only in the present tense” (p. 198); the uncertainties of present shock, a condition that does not provide any ends or beginnings, lead to Apocalypto, the widespread dream of an apocalypse.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.