[-empyre-] Samba and scopophilia

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

Nemo wrote:

>You can have expectations regarding to what will
>appear as part of your work but the lack of control
>can lead to unexpected results. Imagine a movie
>that borrows landscapes from a series of webcams.
>The one of the webcam owners decides to use her
>cam to show off her naked body. That would alter
>the content and the meaning of your movie - and 
>possibly make it very popular. :-)
>
>
>Nemo Nox
>http://www.ploft.com/index.shtml
> 

 I am reminded in this post of Brazil's first goal against England in 
the World Cup quarter final. Seaman England's goalkeeper didn't see 
the ball coming, and when he saw it he didn't need to tell anyone it was 
in the Net because the whole world already knew.

This is just a quick message to reference a few questions that ought 
to be bourn in mind in the shift from Blogging (and vogging) to the
themes of matter and memory - the persistence of narrative, dramatics 
and genre, as well as the persistent dramatisation of social space.

I'd like to query the assumption that Benjamin's 'aura' is not 
found in digital media and communication (it most certainly is); to reference the cultural faculties of memory, history and foresight found 
in Bergson; to revive the 'simulation/stimulation?' proto-debate of the 
mid 90s in which assumed differences in gender approaches to what would become called hypermedia.

I'd like to replay Nemo's 'what if' question: 

What if the woman/girl man/boy on cam does not 'go naked'(except for Rhiannon of course, there's always one) what if they just sit there. 
Communicating, bodies as texts, for days, months, years.  What then? 
What does this mean in the empires of narrative, drama, and ways of understanding the consumption of images and texts in hypermedia?

Lachlan

Lachlan Brown

Centres for Cultural Studies
and Urban and Community Research
Goldsmiths College
University of London

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'in the domains of the abstract circuit boy was an easy seduction' 
from ALL NEW GEN, VNS Matrix 1993

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