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Today, perception itself takes the form of ‘bingewatching’. This refers to the consumption of videos and films without any temporal restrictions. The consumers are continuously offered those films and series that match their taste, and therefore please them. Like consumer livestock, they are fattened with ever-new sameness. Binge-watching can be generalized as the contemporary mode of perception. The proliferation of the Same resembles not a carcinoma but a coma, and does not meet with any immunological defences. One goggles oneself into unconsciousness.
The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today
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