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from walter benjamin to the end of cinema
effect of immediacy, such as it has been inaugurated by Walter Benjamin
and, just recently, in other terms by Jacques Rancière? The problem now ob-
tains the generational historicised framework, within which, curiously, his-
tory itself melts in the presence of a form of always accessible “knowledge”
that abolishes “old” hierarchies of relevance of historic narratives about
events, institutions, people, periods, and so forth.
Figure 3. View from the Seoul underground in 2016 (photo: D. Štrajn).
Michel Serres in his cute little book Thumbelina makes this fabled
name into the emblem of the generation of the millennials. “These chil-
dren inhabit the virtual. The cognitive sciences have shown us that using
the Internet, reading or writing messages (with one’s thumb), or consult-
ing Wikipedia or Facebook does not stimulate the same neurons or the
same cortical zones as does the use of a book, a chalkboard, or a note-
book” (Serres, 2015: 6). How much the digital revolution has already affect-
ed different cultures in the global dimensions remains a task of on-going
research, but it is clear – not only to Michel Serres – that the reality of the
millennials, who are also deemed to be “digital natives”, transcends the one
of their parents. What is important for my examination here it is quite ev-
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effect of immediacy, such as it has been inaugurated by Walter Benjamin
and, just recently, in other terms by Jacques Rancière? The problem now ob-
tains the generational historicised framework, within which, curiously, his-
tory itself melts in the presence of a form of always accessible “knowledge”
that abolishes “old” hierarchies of relevance of historic narratives about
events, institutions, people, periods, and so forth.
Figure 3. View from the Seoul underground in 2016 (photo: D. Štrajn).
Michel Serres in his cute little book Thumbelina makes this fabled
name into the emblem of the generation of the millennials. “These chil-
dren inhabit the virtual. The cognitive sciences have shown us that using
the Internet, reading or writing messages (with one’s thumb), or consult-
ing Wikipedia or Facebook does not stimulate the same neurons or the
same cortical zones as does the use of a book, a chalkboard, or a note-
book” (Serres, 2015: 6). How much the digital revolution has already affect-
ed different cultures in the global dimensions remains a task of on-going
research, but it is clear – not only to Michel Serres – that the reality of the
millennials, who are also deemed to be “digital natives”, transcends the one
of their parents. What is important for my examination here it is quite ev-
198
