Interactivity Quotes

“A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.”
― Oliver Gaspirtz, A Treasury of Pet Humor

“ne plus ultra of interactivity: a surgeon operates on his own brain whilst filming and watching it through his phone”
― Dean Cavanagh

“The audience is now fully interactive, unfortunately the spectacle is a corpse”
― Dean Cavanagh

“We didn’t need a special word for interactivity in the same way that we don’t (yet) need a special word for people with only one head.”
― Douglas Adams

“You can interact with a refrigerator: open the door and the light inside turns on. Close the door and the little light goes off. But how many people do you see standing in front of their refrigerators, opening and closing the doors, laughing?”
― Chris Crawford

“All we do in psychodrama - the psychodrama of contacts, of psychological tests, of interfacing - is acrobatically simulate and dramatize the absence of the other. Not only is otherness absent everywhere in this artificial dramaturgy, but the subject has also quietly become indifferent to his own subjectivity, to his own alienation, just as the modern political animal has become indifferent to his own political opinions. This subject becomes transparent, spectral (to borrow Marc Guillaume's word) - and hence interactive. For in interactivity the subject is the other to no one. Inasmuch as he is indifferent to himself, it is as though he had been reified alive - but without his double, without his shadow, without his other. Having paid this price, the subject becomes a candidate for all possible combinations, all possible connections.
The interactive being is therefore born not through a new form of exchange but through the disappearance of the social, the disappearance of otherness.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“What are we to do with an interactive world in which the demarcation line between subject and object is virtually abolished?
That world can no longer either be reflected or represented; it can only be refracted or diffracted now by operations that are, without distinction, operations of brain and screen - the mental operations of a brain that has itself become a screen.
The other side of this Integral Reality is that everything operates in an integrated circuit. In the information media - and in our heads too - the image-feedback dominates, the insistent presence of the monitors - this convolution of things that operate in a loop, that connect back round to themselves like a Klein bottle, that fold back into themselves. Perfect reality, in the sense that everything is verified by adherence to, by confusion with, its own image.
This process assumes its full magnitude in the visual and media world, but also in everyday, individual life, in our acts and thoughts. Such an automatic refraction affects even our perception of the world, sealing everything, as it were, by a focusing on itself.
It is a phenomenon that is particularly marked in the photographic world, where everything is immediately decked out with a context, a culture, a meaning, an idea, disarming any vision and creating a form of blindness condemned by Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio: 'There exists a terrible form of blindness which very few people notice: the blindness that allows you to look and see, but not to see at a stroke without looking. That is how things were before: you didn't look at them, you were happy simply to see them. Everything today is poisoned with
duplicity; there is no pure, direct impulse. So, for example, the countryside has become "landscape" or, in other words, a representation of itself ...”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

“Or, rather, there is a duel between them: death toys with life, life toys with death.
Which of the two succumbs?
Stanislaw Lec reverses the terms here: it is not we who defend ourselves against death, it is death that defends itself against us: 'Death resists us, but it gives in in the end.'
Nothing else so stunning as this has ever been said about death.
Needless to say, this dual relationship has nothing to do with interactivity, which is a parody of it. There is nothing interactive in the antagonistic process of reversibility and becoming.
The feminine and the masculine are not 'interactive': that is ridiculous.
Life and the world are not interactive -life isn't a question-and-answer session or a video game.
There is nothing interactive in words when they are articulated in language.
Interactivity is a gigantic mythology, a mythology of integrated systems or of systems craving integration, a mythology in which otherness is lost in feedback, interlocution and interface - a kind of generalized echography.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact