[-empyre-] networks of catastrophe + terror/capital

[Nicholas Ruiz III]

I would say that it is not capital that encodes terror...but rather that for our species, terror is a currency that more and more, humanity seems ready to trade in, speculate in, to spend; that is, as a form of capital. 

NRIII

 Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D
Editor, Kritikos
http://intertheory.org




----- Original Message ----
From: simon <swht at clear.net.nz>
To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 5:05:40 PM
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] networks of catastrophe + terror/capital

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

www.squarewhiteworld.com
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
>
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