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New media as an expressionless collage

11/24/2012

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We increasingly tend to express ourselves on the internet via proxy of something else very quickly, having images as basic components and building blocks of our expression. The process of expression is also a process of consummation.  We are presented with someone else's emotion, which we consume and experience on the fly, then regurgitate . Our expression is impregnated with the shades of the expression of others which we use as the medium for our expression although we usually personalise it by changing its context. At the same time, we express much more quickly than before, and perhaps incompletely.
The impact of this way of expressing is to lessen the emotion experienced and also to express it without having completed the thought or savoured the roundness of a feeling.  The quickly assembled pages which convey our emotions out of aggregate parts, such as the tumblr below, are collages, and a collage is more or less expressionless.
Rather, there is emotion in a collage, but it is a bit tongue in cheek, or sarcastic as the ideas seem to contradict each other. Film and writing are perhaps the last bastions of emotion as they encourage viewers to experience an single, cohesive emotion for up to several minutes. The internet gives the the truncating or mixing of emotional expression in a simultaneity, and it does not requrie more than a few seconds of our attention.
Expressing a multiplicity of contradictory emotions is not new or particular to the internet. Literary works like Shakespeare's Hamlet have recognized that we are naturally subject to contradictory feelings.
However, never have so many at once expressed emotion so often, nor have so many expressed, in collage, a confusion of feelings or anoesis before: or have they all expressed contradictory ideas like sadness and happiness, ambivalence, pain and pleasure rather than the organized and considered presentation of happiness or sadness in some concrete form.




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