THE PARASITIC HEAD

Friday, May 4, 2012

Such is the last stage of the social relation, ours, which is no longer one of persuasion (the classical age of propaganda, of ideology, of publicity, etc.) but one of deterrence: “YOU are information, you are the social, you are the event, you are involved, you have the word, etc.” An about-face through which it becomes impossible to locate one instance of the model, of power, of the gaze, of the medium itself, because you are always already on the other side. No more subject, no more focal point, no more center or periphery: pure flexion or circular inflexion. No more violence or surveillance: only “information,” secret virulence, chain reaction, slow implosion, and simulacra of spaces in which the effect of the real again comes into play.
Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

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Sunday, April 29, 2012

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

death in the digital, red wine, and hang-man

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

‘The cinema involves putting the eye into uniform,’ claimed Kafka. What are we to say, then, of this dictatorship exerted for more than half a century by optical hardware which has become omniscient and omnipresent and which, like any totalitarian regime, encourages us to forget we are individual beings?
If, in terms of current laws, which are supposed to protect individual liberties, we are in fact the owners of our bodies —and also of the images of those bodies —our prolific audiovisual environment has long since induced us to cease having any concern for those multiple appearances of ourselves which unknown general staffs —of the military and the police, but also the medical, financial, political, industrial and advertising establishments —steal, misappropriate, explore and manipulate without our knowing it, engaged as they are in secretly fighting over our optical clones, our modern mortal remains; to turn them, in the short term, into unconscious actors in their virtual worlds, their nomadic games.
Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb (1998)

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Friday, February 3, 2012

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