Big Jelly

At the conclusion of the selection from Theater of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal writes that the main goal of the theater should be the “liberation of the spectator, on whom the theater has imposed finished visions of the world” (Boal 352). His conclusion is that the spectator becomes a voiceless victim of bourgeois drama, unable to [...]

by: Jean Baudrilliard A whole world separates these two artificial beings. One is a theatrical counterfeit, a mechanical and clocklike man; technique submits entirely to analogy and to the effect of semblance. The other is dominated by the technical principle; the machine overrides all, and with the machine equivalence comes too. The automaton plays the [...]