Re: [-empyre-] mobile media debate + RFID



At 10:29 +1200 20/9/06, Simon Taylor wrote:

It interests me that Armin Medosch couches this bipolarity - of frequent
flyer and (im)migrant - in terms of deployment, deterrence (the arms race),
of biopolitics and, as finally a matter, of survival.
(...)
We have then two types of identity, one increasingly static even in its
mobility, concerned with the convergence and concentration of identity
technologies to ensure its security; against/and the other, increasingly
mobile and, not simply 'sans papiers' but, digitally paperised,
identikitted, whose, if I may, ontological status is defined by exclusion:


Just to add a few lines,

I guess you all know the funny story reported by Drew Hemment, 'Last Night An Arphid Saved My Life'. Anyway it is worth reading the story, checking the pictures at flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/futureeverything> and watching the video interview with the Conrad Chase, the owner of Baja Beach Club, Barcelona, at Drew's website <http://www.drewhemment.com/2006/interview_with_conrad_chase.html>

It sounds weird when we see all the concerns related to biopolitics, as mentioned by Armin's article, being used as a new hype. Just another kind of inversions we have been recently witnessing.

Best

Lucas



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