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December 8, 2004
Interpassivity
Interpassivity is the behavior where instead of forming independent thoughts about an experience, one person uses another’s thoughts as there own. The best example of this can be seen in the “laugh track.” Instead of the viewer deciding what is funny in a weekly sitcom, the laugh track tells the viewer what is funny and the viewer laughs.
Another example is the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000. The show characters make funny remarks about the movie they (and the view) are watching. The viewer does not need to create their own jokes and simply accepts the on screen analysis as if it where their own.
When used for entertainment interpassivity is comic gold. But our technologically based society favors results over process. This it is easier for an experience consumer to us the analysis of some one else instead of spending the resources to have the experience for one’s self.
For example I believe Gigli is “quite possibility the worst movie ever made” not because I have seen it for my self and compared it to all other movie I have experienced, but because someone else told me it is.
In other cases, inanimate objects can take the role on one’s agent in Interpassivity. I researcher does not need to read a book; instead he uses a Xerox machine to duplicate the book’s content and takes it home with him. Or a person records a TV show while he is away then never watches the recording. The Xerox machine read the book for the researcher and VCR watched the television program.
Interpassivity is essentially the delegation of responsibility for consuming an experience to another person or object.
Interesting stuff . . .
More info:
Essay dealing with Interpassivity
Essay dealing with Interpassivity and Theory of Ritual
Read: Fedish an exotics of culture by Henry Krips ISBN:0-8014-8537-1
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December 1, 2004
Stray
Here is a animated gif I generated from the endtro of Wolf's Rain. Feel free to download and use it, but please dont link to it from off site.
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