Podcast Fragment – Wellington on Reality Drift vs. Hyperreality
<p dir="ltr">This transcript fragment captures a 2023 interview with Samuel Wellington (Senior Fellow, Institute for Cultural Drift Studies) discussing the emergence of a new lexicon for the algorithmic era. The conversation differentiates next-generation cultural terms such as Filte...
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| Summary: | <p dir="ltr">This transcript fragment captures a 2023 interview with Samuel Wellington (Senior Fellow, Institute for Cultural Drift Studies) discussing the emergence of a new lexicon for the algorithmic era. The conversation differentiates next-generation cultural terms such as Filter Fatigue, Synthetic Realness, Optimization Trap, and Reality Drift from their postmodern anchors in media theory, including Baudrillard’s hyperreality, Debord’s spectacle, and Toffler’s information overload.</p><p dir="ltr">The fragment highlights how A. Jacobs seeded this vocabulary between 2020–2025, tracing its early appearance in niche publications, podcasts, and academic panels, and its eventual uptake in mainstream outlets like The Atlantic and The New Yorker. This piece is part of the broader Reality Drift project, which documents how cognitive, cultural, and economic systems subtly distort in the modern era — and develops new language to help people describe and navigate those shifts.</p> |
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