"I find Žižek instructive, because as they stare vacuously at the screen
the television seems to be doing the enjoying for them. In a sense this
reduces the subject to an experience of what Žižek tags the sinthome (in
The Sublime Object of Ideology I think), a blind gravitation towards, in
this case the repetitive and the banal."
Regards
rwm
Interesting subject, but aren't we a bit too superficial about television and television aesthetics? Laughtrack is such a complex matter in the study of television, it is not only indicating passiveness of the audience but also many forms of involvement, creating some kind of common ground for the performers and their viewiers. So I find the adoption of Zizek in this context a bit banal, it gives me no further insight into the aesthetics of television but sounds more like a superficial argument on the dangers of television. Whatever experience are made with anyones doughters, I don't think it is right to suggest that they are staring 'vacuously' at the screen or 'blindly gravitating' towards something. It is an object of endless fascination and raises many question for film philosophy, that children can become absorbed by such things, that there is, as some postings suggests, a popular culture for children which transgresses the boundaries of nations, as in the case with Japanese Anime's popularity all over the world. Children's television culture is still an unknown territory for us.
Herbert
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