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

simon swht at clear.net.nz
Sat Nov 29 10:10:40 EST 2008


Yes. I agree. Terror is a currency ... and also or because it is a 
spectacle. It is a sort of generalised generalisable spectacle. Which 
suggests a point of totalization: a panic Terror. (And the transparency 
you mention.)

Does capital provide terror - through providing the technological means 
for its acceleration (towards the totalization of the Image) - this 
currency?

Or is / was terror now providing capital its currency? (i.e. - terror 
being nothing more than its code where capital was / is that very 
'nothing more' just now / then.)

And can anyone direct me to where Virilio makes the suggestion that as 
an effect of dromospheric hyper-pressurization terror was / is the new 
capital?

Simon Taylor

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Nicholas Ruiz III wrote:
> 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
>   


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