"Nothing is real" a famous quote from Strawberry Fields Forever from The Beatles and is representative of not only our ideology of the present and future but of the past as well. Jameson's idea of "pop history" were history is represented by "our ideas and stereotypes of the past" (419), rather than actual accounts or evidence of the past events, shows how fundamentally our human experience is becoming one of simulation rather than nature. A world of aesthetic sensuality that lacks depth or substance. As we are raised in this environment Jameson points out that "the subject has lost its capacity actively to extend its pro-tensions and re-tensions across the temporal manifold, and to organize its past and future into coherent experience, it becomes difficult enough to see how the cultural production of such a subject could result in anything but 'heaps of fragments' and in practice of the randomly heterogeneous and fragmentary and the aleatory"(419).
Jameson also speaks of the gap between the evolution of our technology exceeding our own understanding, and perhaps control. There are enormous forces created, palpable outcomes, felt in political economy as well as other respects. These forces create new emotions in the human experience. Altered states of mind and of reality. But with physical consequences on the human body and psyche.
Back to the Beatles, in the video they tease 'intensities' out of the viewer using editing and effects to alter the reality into a universe where physics behave in more random and fragmentary way. There is knowledge of physics but the manipulation follows no specific stream of principles other than visual stimulation, sensual disorganization, and the use of fragments of simulated altered physics by way of video technology to create emotions and feelings in the viewer.
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