Reality TV, since it's inception (for example, 1948 - 2014 Candid Camera) is the exemplar of the private sphere expanding over the public sphere as it recedes via privatization. (example: the public commons of communication is now owned by Elon Musk). Social Media posting, like Instagram was not a horror, but an opportunity we could understand because of reality tv. The Housewives ( I love them! ) are encouraged ( disciplined and let go ) if they do not 'authentically' deliver all their shameful private acts ( divorce, bankruptcies, adultery, surgeries, cancers, social diseases ) grooming us all to be prepared to do the same on social media. I like to think of The Real World ( MTV 1992 ) all the way up to The Bachelor & Love is Blind ( falling in love made public ) model in detail how to expand our private life to include others. What do we retroactively see after we & the Housewives eagerly include others in our private space. See: “It is often said that today, with our total exposure to the media, culture of public confessions and instruments of digital control, private space is disappearing. One should counter this commonplace with the opposite claim: it is the public space proper which is disappearing. The person who displays on the web his naked images or intimate data and obscene dreams is not an exhibitionist: exhibitionists intrude into the public space, while those who post their naked images on the web remain in their private space and are just expanding it to include others” - S. Zizek
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Reality TV, since it's inception (for example, 1948 - 2014 Candid Camera) is the exemplar of the private sphere expanding over the public sphere as it recedes via privatization. (example: the public commons of communication is now owned by Elon Musk). Social Media posting, like Instagram was not a horror, but an opportunity we could understand because of reality tv. The Housewives ( I love them! ) are encouraged ( disciplined and let go ) if they do not 'authentically' deliver all their shameful private acts ( divorce, bankruptcies, adultery, surgeries, cancers, social diseases ) grooming us all to be prepared to do the same on social media. I like to think of The Real World ( MTV 1992 ) all the way up to The Bachelor & Love is Blind ( falling in love made public ) model in detail how to expand our private life to include others. What do we retroactively see after we & the Housewives eagerly include others in our private space. See: “It is often said that today, with our total exposure to the media, culture of public confessions and instruments of digital control, private space is disappearing. One should counter this commonplace with the opposite claim: it is the public space proper which is disappearing. The person who displays on the web his naked images or intimate data and obscene dreams is not an exhibitionist: exhibitionists intrude into the public space, while those who post their naked images on the web remain in their private space and are just expanding it to include others” - S. Zizek
Fascinating - love the quote