[-empyre-] personal tragedy + repetition + delay

[sdv at krokodile.co.uk]

There is something tragically ignorant about a media that doesn't 
understand what a dozen heavily armed soldiers are capable of... The 
response was similar in Europe,  more based on the typical ideological  
phantasy than anything resembling fact.

steve

rtf9 at cornell.edu wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>> 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.)
>>>
>>> Simon Taylor
>>>
>>> <http://www.squarewhiteworld.com>www.squarewhiteworld.com
>>> <http://www.brazilcoffee.co.nz>www.brazilcoffee.co.nz
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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