The "homogenization of perceptual experience"
 

Bernard Stiegler has written on "the homogenization of perceptual experience within contemporary culture"
 
Stiegler is interested in "movies, television programs, popular music, and [short videos]" and he "cites the advent of widespread internet use in the mid 1900s as decisive turning point (his key date is 1992)"
 
He is concerned about a "mass synchronization" and "the standardization of experience"
 
I wasn't totally convinced by this--in my analysis, the opposite is occurring--and Crary seems to agree. On 53 he writes: "against [Stiegler's] idea of the industrial homogenization of consciousness and its flows, one can counterpose the parcellization and fragmentation of shared zones of experience into fabricated microworlds of affects and symbols"

> from Jonathan Crary's 24/7: Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep (2013)

> tagged with #culture, #specialization, #information_age, #visual_culture

> created September 30, 2025 at 7:44:43 PM


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