2024-01-21 18:55:00
Human beings as digital beings AI
Alphabet window | M.K. Harikumar
There is a reality called post-postmodernism. It is an idea like modernity and innovation. This expression is necessary to show that the thought problems, experiences and emotional crises of the 21st century are different from those of the previous century. It is a liberation from the tendency of post-modernism which is stuck on human identity, local culture, false history construction etc.
Let’s face it, man is a digital animal. Many people say that they are free and not slaves to anything, but in reality man today is a post-post-modern digital being. Why are we a post-post-modern species? Of course we have a digital and data life. Photos are transmitted over the Internet as data. It is a truth. Let’s accept the fact that we use smart mobile phones. This is postmodernism. This phone transplants you from the 20th century to the 21st century in thought, life and attitude.
In the last century, the world used to listen to radio news in the morning, afternoon and evening. Read the newspaper in the morning. And the newspaper comes out the next day. Even though the newspaper comes out every day, it is possible only once a day. A newspaper is more than a collection of news, it is a sense of time. Get a comprehensive overview of the world every 24 hours. Meanwhile we can indulge in other activities. Don’t always follow the news. Just know it in the morning.
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There was a contentment and peace in it. It was the nature of that time to think that the information about the events of one morning would be enough to read the next day. Still reading the newspaper. The breadth and interpretation of news comes in newspapers. But this 24 hour time concept is broken now. You don’t have to read newspapers in the morning. You can carry it on your mobile and read it anytime. But the world is now being reported in real time. There is news at every moment. We are incomplete without reading and listening to it. News is video. It is impossible to live without knowing what is happening in the world in real time. This live phenomenon did not exist in the last century. It belongs to the new century. This is part of postmodernism. Because we move with time.
We have no time to lose. Now there is a realization that what is lost is life. Countless videos and news are streaming every moment. This can be called information overload. But the flip side of this century’s media explosion is fake news. There are as many people reading, watching and listening to fake news as real news. Fake news is for sale on YouTube. In the last century, analysis of the news was to be written in a newspaper or a weekly. Today it’s a YouTube video.
One person is releasing five or six videos a day. Many are trying to make the video controversial. More people will see only if it is controversial. Only then can you generate income. Most YouTubers try to create an impression in the audience that they are rude and outspoken. This is a problem of existence. YouTube will not sell if you look at politeness and dignity.
In postmodernism, neither art nor literature has an exclusive authority. Everyone has a platform. It can be said that the sentimentality or special emotional response of art is gone. Ambition is dead. No one’s poetry touches anyone. Everyone gets an audience. Everyone has media. Most of them have their own YouTube media, blog etc. The individual himself is becoming the medium. This would have been unthinkable forty years ago. The editor is gone. A television prime time news program has no editor. Not only there, there is generally no presence of the editor in the channel programs.
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Live reporting is happening. There is no one to correct. The only way is to correct yourself. No one can edit the participants in the prime time discussion. Without any restraint, such discussions are turbulent and violent. That is its market value. Conflict and conflict are increasing the value of a video in post-postmodernity. Peace, culture, neutrality, honesty etc. are judged as unfit and failed in channel discussions.
Another cultural problem we see in post-postmodernism is over-speed. Speeding is a philosophical issue. The most destructive is the idea that lack of speed is irrelevant in life. Speed is essential to falling in love and falling apart. There are no people today who love and mourn like Changampuzha. This is tragic. There is no love poetry today. Which poet is currently writing about his lost love? How does the unloved poet value lost love? At a time when love and failure are seen as evil, no one can understand Kumaranashan’s concept of love (love that reaches the level of a monk).
Mechanical psychosis
The human mind lives for speed. The deputy leader of Hamas, Saleh al-Aruri, was killed in a drone strike in Lebanon. Soldiers do not have to invade a country and wage war. And that’s what a drone does beautifully. Post-postmodernism is the time when everything can be controlled at the touch of a finger. The fingertip is an indicator, a ruler. It points to the speed, technical excellence and mechanical wonder of the modern age. Winning the war is quick. The American President was watching the scene of killing Bin Laden in Pakistan live with his colleagues in his office. This is the sign of live.
All this is a changed situation. Postmodernism opens up the endless possibilities of digital technology, robotic surgery, and artificial intelligence.
It is meaningless to say that we have not been touched by this innovation when all this is a part of our lives today. We are the epitome of speed. There are people who commit suicide by talking on WhatsApp live video. An assailant shot and killed worshipers in a mosque in Indonesia live on Facebook, revealing the new life’s mechanized psychiatry.
There are those who doubt whether digital technology has upset the balance of the mind. Limits have to be broken to increase speed. When the kingdom of heaven calls, who will listen to the loved ones? Life is fleeting. So when the kingdom of heaven calls, the young woman killing the little boy and running away is not more terrible than Vasavadatta’s life? If caught by the police, there is no life. Knowing that and taking risks again. Running over me. If it falls, everything is gone. But if you don’t fall, heaven is reaching as love, as Rati.
The individual has lost his identity. People form opinions based on their circumstances. There is no consistent thought, dharma or ideal, why the thread of dharma in a digital, facebook live chat?
Answer lines
1) Is our society neglecting the issues of introspection, soul-searching and complex impulses in literary works? Or is it deliberately avoided?
Answer: Because society ignores the conflicts within the silence. Society only wants no discussion to come in their way. That is why public streets are extremely noisy today. Voices can hide many things. Birds do not live in cities. They enjoy their own wanderings in the countryside. No great literature is read here. A poem in which a person who has lived somewhere far away from home remembers home painfully d. Vinayachandra has written – “The Way Home”.
Look at these lines:
“There will be some cave sculpture inside
Ancestors
Unable to read back
Love that surrounds
Depression, longing, hope, orphan concept
Wounded day and night evenings
What home is there for the motherless, no home
Where is the house?
These depression problems cannot be taken up by the general society. It’s personal.
2) Is Malayalam film criticism extinct? Don’t we need criticism that examines our films globally?
Answer: Film critic M. C. Rajanarayanan comments. (No need for small films, Orathyam, Vyurhuyam, Madhyamik Weekly, ) films like Kathal, Nanpakal Neerth Mayakm have won acclaim in the recent past.
This is what Rajanarayanan has to say about parallel films in Malayalam: “Taking parallel films is a risk. It’s a struggle. Still, there are many young people coming to do art house films. The new generation like Sajath Rahman and Pratap Joseph are promising in Malayalam. But no matter what crisis it faces, parallel cinema will not disappear. As long as cinema is there, it is soulful. There will be a section of people who will come with pictures’.
This is a very relevant observation. A good film can survive on its artistic excellence even if it doesn’t get much support in the theatre.
3) Is the Malayalam story in the grip of time-killing topics?
Answer: No deep observations. The present is the experience of reporting life. “Hug a Mug” by Vimish Maniyur (Writing, December) , in vain. The story lacks the heart to tell at such length. There is no extraordinary vision.
Ambikasuthan Mangat in the story ‘Totankarapothi’ (Mathrubhumi Weekly, January 14-20) states that “Inside every woman there is a Totunkara Bhagavathy”. To establish this idea, the doctor is swinging in front of the people who have come for treatment, wearing a chilanga and talapali. The story writer expresses the ghost of the character Dinakaran. This story could have been written better. This is only a superficial description. No problem with the story.
A storyteller is not omniscient. He is looking for answers to his inner problems. Confusion, doubt, and dilemma are what make a good writer write. He is writing in the hope of getting answers to his thoughts. I didn’t see that in this story.
4) Is existentialism relevant in Malayalam criticism?
Answer: Relevance as a concept. Still influential. Because existence is also a discovery. It needs a foundation to grow on. Once you realize that the earth is rotating, your next thoughts will move based on this. There is nothing wrong with Buddhism being old. Existentialism is a rare find in history itself. So this light is needed in future criticism as well. Movements like Surrealism and Impressionism are still expanding our awareness. Existential knowledge is also useful when writing about postmodernism.
5) Why did the French novelist and thinker Albert Camus, who wrote the book ‘The Rebel’, say that “there is no rebellion without a strange love”?
Answer: Revolution needs love and beauty. A revolutionary must love human beings and other living beings. A revolutionary must love art and books. Revolution is not only a suppression but also a preservation.
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