Media Mirrors for Late Modern Subjects

Somewhere between how urban environment structures our daily routines and how we tend to tell ourselves our lives as stories the transition of modern experience from logics nested in the contexts of immediate practice to those that become divorced from it lies at our late modern feet the fruits of centuries long coping with the groundlessness of the modern existence as the strong narrative motifs rooted in tradition, society, and economy give way to volatile improvisation that rather than leave space for unreflected selfhood crushes what makes our identities up against the wall of constant change that makes the conditions of our existence always new, which must in no small measure have contributed to the interest with which we read our daily newspapers, listen to our media-streams, and watch our visual dose of entertainment and documentary footage not so much as to fill some inner void but to recombine the structure of our inner workings in tune with the latest state of the art that the ever changing second modernity legislates through its self-appointed representatives, augurs, and potentates.