Baudrillard's essay, ‘The Ecstasy of Communication’, provides a comprehensive analysis of the communication as a kind of ‘screen’, and develops a wide range of related analogies that take place in the contemporary culture, where sexuality has been replaced by pornography, knowledge by information, saturation by simulation, hysteria by schizophrenia, and subject replaced by object. Baudrillard states that “there is a screen and a network” (126). “Our own body and the whole surrounding universe become a control screen” (127). Television brings “the entire universe…on your home screen.” According to Baudrillard, “living, nowadays, is
Baudrillard's essay, ‘The Ecstasy of Communication’, provides a comprehensive analysis of the communication as a kind of ‘screen’, and develops a wide range of related analogies that take place in the contemporary culture, where sexuality has been replaced by pornography, knowledge by information, saturation by simulation, hysteria by schizophrenia, and subject replaced by object. Baudrillard states that “there is a screen and a network” (126). “Our own body and the whole surrounding universe become a control screen” (127). Television brings “the entire universe…on your home screen.” According to Baudrillard, “living, nowadays, is