Post by rubl on Mar 26, 2016 1:21:46 GMT 7
"Pornography, violence and JG Ballard: High Rise, the 1970s' internet
Start complaining about the lifts, soon you're doxing your own mum and eating the dog
The film High Rise is set in the 1970s and based on JG Ballard’s 1975 book. That’s roughly two decades before Tim Berners-Lee would “create” the web.
Heck, you were lucky then to have a colour TV, never mind a phone in your house. Yet, High Rise provides a vision of what was to come: the internet community.
That is, an increasingly insular society that descends into pornography and violent indulgence while some overseeing architect struggles to manipulate and control their creation.
The titular building, an ubiquitous symbol of urbanism and population density going up across our capital city ever day, is a world unto itself.
It offers all of the stratifications that its inhabitants secretly crave, as well as immediately accessible recreational and commercial amenities that neuters the community of its desire to travel or socialise outside of its confines.
Sound familiar?"
www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/18/high_rise/
Start complaining about the lifts, soon you're doxing your own mum and eating the dog
The film High Rise is set in the 1970s and based on JG Ballard’s 1975 book. That’s roughly two decades before Tim Berners-Lee would “create” the web.
Heck, you were lucky then to have a colour TV, never mind a phone in your house. Yet, High Rise provides a vision of what was to come: the internet community.
That is, an increasingly insular society that descends into pornography and violent indulgence while some overseeing architect struggles to manipulate and control their creation.
The titular building, an ubiquitous symbol of urbanism and population density going up across our capital city ever day, is a world unto itself.
It offers all of the stratifications that its inhabitants secretly crave, as well as immediately accessible recreational and commercial amenities that neuters the community of its desire to travel or socialise outside of its confines.
Sound familiar?"
www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/18/high_rise/
