Reality shows, fame and the retrofeeding machine of loneliness in the age of masses

Lidia Zuin
10 min readFeb 5, 2021

Disclaimer: This essay was originally published on TAB UOL, in Portuguese.

A new year, a new edition of Big Brother Brazil. But this is not another criticism against reality shows, but rather an analysis about loneliness and isolation, two words that became even heavier in 2020 with the Covid-19 pandemic. But these aren’t…

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Lidia Zuin

Brazilian journalist, MA in Semiotics and PhD in Visual Arts. Researcher and essayist. Technical and science fiction writer.