The celebrity and the nobody
The celebrity and the nobody
This chapter turns to the question of the who of televisionary Dasein. Just as life with television is a double life, having always already split, the who to whom this life belongs is also disarticulated in such a way that authentic resoluteness is no longer possible. The celebrity is not the “authentically” existing nobody. Rather, the nobody always exists next to the celebrity without ever being able to overcome its nobodiness, even though at the same time the celebrity is never anything else than a “staging”—or we might say, a celebration—of the nobody. And ultimately, by shattering Dasein into the nobody and the celebrity, television irrevocably disjoins the middle-voiced self-reflexive logic of self-showing on which phenomenology depends.
Keywords: authenticity, celebrity, nobody, the, resoluteness
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