Today...no performance can be without its control screen video...its goal is to be hooked up to itself...the mirror phase has given way to the video phase. What develops around the video or stereo culture is not a narcissistic imaginary, but an effect of frantic self-referentiality, a short-circuit which immediately hooks up like with like, and, in doing so, emphasizes their surface intensity and deeper meaninglessness.
Jean BaudrillardAbout author
- Author's profession: Sociologist
- Nationality: french
- Born: July 29, 1929
- Died: March 6, 2007
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