ATS2436 Study Guide - Final Guide: Neoliberalism, High Tech, Outlast

• School: Monash University
• Department: Arts - ATS
• Course: ATS2436
• Professor: moira stewart

Document Summary

Sharma postulates that the pain of capitalism is easily evidenced in a cultural fantasy of exit. The desi(cid:396)e fo(cid:396) else(cid:449)he(cid:396)e is (cid:373)a(cid:374)ifest i(cid:374) a pi(cid:272)tu(cid:396)e post(cid:272)a(cid:396)d i(cid:374) a ta(cid:454)i d(cid:396)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:859)s (cid:448)iso(cid:396), i(cid:374) a desktop screensaver of a beach or mountain vista. Perhaps you purposefully take the bus so you have some extra time to daydream. All of these are sedentary exits little lifestyle choices and changes that can provide pleasurable temporary escapes. Then, of course, there is contemporary robotics, where human capacities and power dynamics are excised and projected onto machines. Exit - an individually negotiated respite from the pressures of data saturation. According to sharma, she labels exit to be the desire for escape from social obligations/ dependency through media technologies where people turn to escapism as a distraction in the (cid:858)(cid:374)o(cid:374)spa(cid:272)e(cid:859). This has opened up new ways to leave things/people behind (swipe left).