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German 27 September 2007 New Media / New Series 1.543 views 2 Comments Print This Post

There are movements that occur in human habits that sometimes go unnoticed. There are others that occur gradually, and that they can see if one is a bit careful and if it is particularly sensitive to changing paradigms. There are others who are from one day to another, so sudden and sometimes unexpected.
The passage of a culture disconnected to a culture of sms and the mobile was given naturally and many have the impression that the world was always like that. The change unnoticed, and today it is normal to see children of 10 or 12 years are exchanged messages. At the other end are abrupt changes, fleeting. The clearest example is the system of fashion: there is accelerated primary renewal and diversification constant. A fashion may last 6 months, 3 months or a month (sometimes less) and then transformed into something else and disappear. In the middle we have these gradual changes is that if a sufficiently awake can appreciate. As an example of this case we have the slow transformation of the Gutenberg Galaxy (as the flame HTLehmann) in the visual era. The passage of an era in which the writing was a source of authority to an era in which television appearance functions as a locus almost absolute. As would Debray, we passed the Grafoesfera to Videoesfera.

This important change involves others. The modes of thinking are changing. Ways to transmit them as well. At first, a best seller took easily to the screen. First came the book, then the film, video, series, advertising, video game, and so on. Now it seems that things are running differently. The first link in the chain can be a movie or, in case we are talking about now, a series.

Was published recently in Italy the book The philosophy of Dr. House. Ethics, logic and epistemology of a television hero. The book attempts to build a philosophical discourse on the basis of the character of G. House. People seek answers to the great universal questions of philosophy through the acts and sayings of the doctor. The group of authors called housismo to the current intellectual who try to explain and analyze. One of the key axes of this thinking is the result of Dialectics ethics the following question: "Tell me you prefer: a doctor to take your hand while you die or another that he ignored while trying to save his life." Effectiveness or goodness, as I read through there?

This is not the only book in relation to our preferred doctor. Dr appeared in Spain. House: A guide to life. A kind of mixture between book and self technique for entrepreneurs. The text is written as though the House was the author himself, and in it until we have different exercises to help us succeed in life thanks to his philosophy.

The House case is not unusual, as has happened with The Simpsons: many sociologists and anthropologists have used the hit series to discuss the American way of life or have compared the adventures of Bart and Homer with nihilism nietzschiano. Simply make a well-known exercise to realize the magnitude of the case: Bart Simpson Nietzsche write in google and see how many results obtained ...

The phenomenon is growing slowly (has also edited a book about Tony Soprano and his leadership), mainly thanks (or because of) the increase in the number of series and the quality of them (a while ago now that the level of the series to the U.S. largely of his films). The problem (but is a real problem?) Is that this is heightening, at the same time as extending our benchmarks fictional. To learn how to behave in life, we continue to House. This may seem harmless to us is nothing but the passage of the literature of learning (the Bildungsroman) to the tele-learning. What was once owned by the books now turns to be exclusive of other media.

What we now rules the TV, will soon be ruled by the Internet. The paradigm will continue to change and we will find other philosophical models in different media, web sites, second life, and so on.

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