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1. Jean Paul Sartre

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   Sartre was an accomplished dramatist and novelist whose fiction served primarily as illustrations of his philosophical theses. His plays frequently dramatize confrontations between individuals where the imposition of one person's gaze upon another results in immediate ontological warfare.
   His play No Exit (Huis Clos) (1944) contains the famous aphorism, "Hell is other people" (L’enfer, c’est les autres). This line is often misinterpreted as a rejection of social interaction; however, within the play’s context, it specifically refers to the inability to esc…

2. Television

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   Television is an electronic medium for the transmission and reception of time-varying picture signals (video) and sound signals (audio) that provides a series of visual images in rapid succession to create the illusion of moving images, accompanied by synchronized sound. Emerging in the early 20th century from theoretical work in electromagnetism and the practical application of mechanical scanning principles, television rapidly evolved into one of the most pervasive and influential mass communication technologies of the modern era, fundamentally reshaping [social interaction](/entries/so…