Telemorphosis (Univocal)

By: Jean Baudrillard

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Synopsis: The art of living today has shifted to a continuous state of the experimental. In one of his last texts, Telemorphosis, renowned thinker and anti-philosopher Jean Baudrillard takes on the task of thinking and reflecting on the coming digital media architectures of the social. While &“the social&” may have never existed, according to Baudrillard, his analysis at the beginning of the twenty-first century of the coming social media–networked cultures cannot be ignored. One need not look far in order to find oneself snared within some sort of screenification of a techno-social community. &“What the most radical critical critique, the most subversive delirious imagination, what no Situationist drift could have done . . . television has done.&” Collective reality has entered a realm of telemorphosis.