The
streams of information in the age of globalization have been 'multiplied,' in the sense that the same subject now receives
information from different sources, with different levels of
'accuracy' of these pieces of information. What is first at stake is
the question of who these informational statements are speaking to,
and to what end. It seems that today they are more and more speaking
of the subject in his/her immediate present and immediate
surroundings. One can think of 'Google Maps,' which can help the
subject map the location of where he/she is standing right this
moment. Before the global era, information was not so fast and
applicable to the surroundings of people as they moved about. There
was a possibility of 'going underground' and being away from
information, the subject was not as vital to the flow of information as it is today...
In
the global era, the person is at the border between two streams of
information. In a sense, rather than creating territories that are
more and more adept at housing the person, the global era creates
'asubjective' territories where the person himself/herself is the
border. Being at the border between two, the subject is open to both
streams of information. The subject hears two statements of
information at the same time. Big media today is precisely concerned
with making what the subject hears more 'sonorous,' that is, of
having both sets of information provide the same type of content and
the same level of accuracy. Today, one statement informs the
other. And, both statements interchange rapidly, informing one
another continuously and constantly. This sonorous seamless character
of two streams of information keeps the subject in check, and doesn't
allow in the subject to foster doubt. The main goal, always, is to
keep constructing the subject as being at the border, to make the
information seem trivial to the subject by creating in the subject a
massive void, so that the subject desires more information to fill
this void.
In
the more extreme global, in the global with high levels of intense
conflict, the same two streams of information do not inform one
another, but are rather dissonant with one another, and create noise.
There is inaccuracy in the content of the information and a chance to
foster doubt in the subject, but even more so, cause a disturbance in
the subject as to the possibility of a 'true' world with
straightforward facts. Thus, the accuracy of information between two
streams (two big media houses) is what indicates the level of
functionality of the global. In this conflict-ridden global, the
subject is no longer a functional border, but rather is divided by
the two sets of information it receives.
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