Nithou

Prêté par maman, mignon et rapide, ça m'a donné envie de lire le livre dont cette courte nouvelle (89 pages) est issue

Très dur mais nécessaire, Ovidie met les mots sur une question que je me suis souvent posée quand je vois ce que mes amies doivent traverser et subir. Brutal et sans concessions mais vital.

[…] l'hétérosexualité n'a rien de gratuit, c'est un système purement vénal, et depuis que le monde est monde, les femmes échangent le sexe contre quelque chose. Des biens matériels, de la sécurité, de l'amour, de la revalorisation. Elles ne baisent jamais totalement gratuitement avec les hommes et ce pour une simple raison : les hommes hétéros baisent mal.

Récit d'une passion dévorante assez intéressant. C'est bien écrit, ça se lit d'une manière très fluide et on sent l'inspiration de Bret Easton Ellis, cependant la fin hallucine totalement et vient déforcer le récit qui aurait mérité un final plus cohérent.

Énorme coup de cœur pour cette relecture de la Passion du Christ par Amélie Nothomb, toute en poésie et en douceur, emplie d’humanité, loin des fioritures dogmatiqudd. C’est un grand oui.

Tout le monde compte en une proportion si colossale qu'elle en est incalculable. Rien n'est plus important que ce que l'on prétend infinitésimal.

The proposition of the book, to study the impact of television on the population, the public discourse, the general way of expressing oneself, ... is really interesting. I must admit I never envisioned technology's impacts like this and it made me think quite a lot.

Unfortunately I think the book falls a bit short by half of it and start to repeat itself in a loop without bringing anything new to its first proposal. I would also have liked to have the author advice on the propagation of computers, smartphones and Internet, because as the book is quite old already, it misses the evolution of computers and them not just being "data treatment machines".

Still a great book to realize the impact television had on our politics, our daily life, the way we teach and envision the world. Gave me a lot to think about.

"Television has achieved the status of “meta-medium”—an instrument that directs not only our knowledge of the world, but our knowledge of ways of knowing as well."

Some years ago I've decided to stop consuming news, at least in the most common ways: newspapers, televised news, news websites, ... preferring to rely on friends, second hand advises found through different networks and deeper analysis.

I did this because I felt being constantly in this "news flux" heightened my anxiety about the world and its course. Nowadays I'm also considering backing off totally from social medias because I find they provoke the exact same thing by spreading only negative and anxious news all the time.

So this book wouldn't really change my mind as this was something I was already doing. However it gave me a lot of arguments for what I was doing, and I could totally relate to the expressed benefits. In a time where we are bathed in more and more "news" and with those becoming more and more generated through AI, I think they are doing way more harm than any remote good. I feel that as a whole we are becoming more and more anxious and prone to a black and white vision of the world, while thinking that we are better informed than yesterday.

If you feel you're getting stressed by the news lately, I'd suggest to give this book and its ideas I real try, it might do you tremendous good!

"The more news you consume, the more frequently you’ll come across confirmatory information, even if your opinions are false. These days the news no longer functions as a test probe, poking holes in inaccurate opinions (as was formerly the case, when there wasn’t much news around); rather, it cements them."

The proposition of the book, to study the impact of television on the population, the public discourse, the general way of expressing oneself, ... is really interesting. I must admit I never envisioned technology's impacts like this and it made me think quite a lot.

Unfortunately I think the book falls a bit short by half of it and start to repeat itself in a loop without bringing anything new to its first proposal. I would also have liked to have the author advice on the propagation of computers, smartphones and Internet, because as the book is quite old already, it misses the evolution of computers and them not just being "data treatment machines".

Still a great book to realize the impact television had on our politics, our daily life, the way we teach and envision the world. Gave me a lot to think about.