Re: [-empyre-] noiseless world: Hamed´s first post

[japyassu@usp.br]

It seems to me that this science fiction scenario of a mechanical world is
somewhat impossible. We can be somewhat cyborgs, part organic part networked,
part individual part social, but there is always friction among these elements
which constitute us, and friction leads to noise. There will always be noise
even in the most post human scenario, at least because even machines need
repair, even networks show communication errors, any program has its bugs ...
If we are becoming cyborgs, if technology is entering our body and constituting
our perceptions and thoughts, so, also, technology is somewhat human, it has
inbuilt some kind of residual humanity from its "creator", so it is always some
kind of frictional symbiosis.

Another point. I kind of agree that technology is hardly the way to change
humanity, that no pure technology will lead to a noiseless society. We will
only change radically society if we change the structure of the feelings that
animate this society, and technology seems for me not a leader in this way, but
a subservient follower of society´s feelings. Nevertheless, there is a twist in
this argument, because if we change perception, there can be changes in
feelings. The perceptual guerrila may be fought in the technological terrain,
and if we use technology to change perceptions there is still a way out. But
many media can be used to change perceptions, so there is nothing quite special
about informational technology.

Finally, it seems that the reproducibility has not achieved Benjamin´s goal of
destroying the Aura of art work. Probably because it we are just too human,
with a human need to be special, and accordingly we will always find ways to
counter the mass effects of mechanical reproduction. 

that´s it
Hilton

Citando susana mendes silva <arslonga@netcabo.pt>:

> for those who have never read it:
> http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/ 
> benjamin.htm
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> On Nov 1, 2006, at 1:24 PM, G.H. Hovagimyan wrote:
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> > gh replies:
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> > I hate to be a stickler but the title of Benjamin's essay is , "The  
> > Work of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction."
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