[-empyre-] personal tragedy + repetition + delay

[rtf9 at cornell.edu]

Thanks to all for posting such interesting comments. The hotel facade 
in Mumbai did indeed become a Roman media coliseum where screens of 
violence, blasts, fire spectacularly hid from view the horror and 
terror of personal tragedy. While we watched immediate and 
instantaneous feeds which brought terror, blasts, and carnage 
directly to our television screens, the event unfolded in real time 
over three plus days.  Our American media critically asks why the 
incident did not end more quickly with an immediate military/ police 
intervention.  Instead help was delayed. Short bursts of actual 
footage, personal interviews and media commentary played repeatedly. 
The replays filling the three days of horror were especially 
displaced given the eight hour time difference where night and day 
became conflated via the television screen.

Renate Ferro

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>>On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:05 PM, simon 
>><<mailto:swht at clear.net.nz>swht at clear.net.nz> wrote:
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>>Does this mean - the following - the following (too late), which my
>>earlier post was an attempting to articulate: that capital encodes
>>terror? makes use of it in its flows of symbolic exchange? as if having
>>reached a critical velocity, the accident of history is given to
>>returning endlessly?
>>
>>Or conversely has there been some sort of symbolic phase shift whereby
>>the simulacrum, the coded world, that Image of
>>thought-as-representation, now only runs by circulating, through the
>>circulation of, acts/networked nodes of terrestrial and extraterrestrial
>>terror? Is capital now entrained in the duration of terror? (As we are
>>entrained in the durations of its spectacular technological means.)
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>>Simon Taylor
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>><http://www.squarewhiteworld.com>www.squarewhiteworld.com
>><http://www.brazilcoffee.co.nz>www.brazilcoffee.co.nz
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>>Nicholas Ruiz III wrote:
>>>  As a reflection of the transparency of evil (Baudrillard), the whole
>>>  lot of it, Mumbai, etc.--is commerical art...and the millions of
>>>  downloads, transmissions and commentaries are its market, paid for in
>>>  broadcast fees, cable and satellite subscriptions and financed by
>>>  advertisers: with media art critics and all!  We are enveloped by a
>>>  postmodern Roman media coliseum, where gladiatorial urges are elicited
>>>  and fulfilled, where spectators take part in the war games, which are
>>>  repeated endlessly and archived for posterity on the Network.
>>>
>>>  NRIII
>>>
>>>  Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D
>>>  Editor, Kritikos
>>>  <http://intertheory.org>http://intertheory.org
>>>
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Renate Ferro
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