The False Intimacy Of Media

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Earlier I posted on how there’s two different ways to connect to Media. I summed it up roughly as follows:

Known Connections: A fiction reaches us as it triggers existing associations, such as tropes.Created Connections: A fiction makes us see things anew, creating new associations and ideas.

Today I’d like to focus on the Known Connections, those cases where a media gets us interested because...