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No longer dressed in staid grey, the new cultural conservatism that enjoys full-spectrum dominance blitzes us with hypnotic hype - the whole neuronic assault and battery of multimedia marketing and interactivity that seems designed to ensure that nothing will ever happen again. The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent, Cowell's other vehicle, could be dismissed as irrelevant fluff, but the sad truth is that, with the end of Top of the Pops and the rise of multichannel TV and niche narrowcasting, they are now the closest thing we have to a public space in entertainment.
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The Age of Consent
REALITY TV
"Interactive" T V has made our culture more conservative than ever, writes Mark FisherBoredom has come disguised in bright new colours this decade. The past ten years have been marked by the creeping triumph of a cultural conservatism that has insinuated itself so thoroughly into mass media that it now g...See the full content of this document
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