The death of spectatorship
 

Crary 52-3: "[The] notion of [passive] reception disregards the status of current media products as resources to be actively managed and manipulated, exchanged, reviewed, archived, recommended, 'followed.' Any act of viewing is layered with options of simultaneous and interruptive actions, choices, and feedback. The idea of long blocks of time spent exclusively as a spectator is outmoded."

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

> tagged with #zeitgeist, #attention, #visual_culture, #participatory #culture, #culture

> created September 30, 2025 at 7:58:47 PM


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