[-empyre-] vigilar y castigar

[ajaco c/o bid]

Hi Jon & Alison

Sorry to be a bit incomprehensible, but I can add the following quotes to
clarify a bit: [*]

"Modern life appears as a drowning man filming itself in its dead 
struggle, the sight of  a drowning man filming his own drowning in a 
world which as a whole is drowning is extremely absurd, there are  no 
spectators to watch left. It is as if the act of filming replaces life
itself . The residual of life is more life than life itself .  This
scenery is really a last station, the complete artistically  epigraphical 
swan song of mankind, filmed on a cell-phone by a  drowning man."

&

"The act of seeing (active) gradually changing in the act of looking 
(passive) is exactly what modern global capitalism is doing with  human
mankind. By replacing the means to create a life (rurality,  agriculture,
self protecting, autocratic societies) with the means to earn a life(
industries, labor, rent, mortgage, salary, funeral insurance) the accent
slowly drifts from the active sense to the  passive sense. Exemplified by
the way Internet developed  from a  research instrument to an
entertainment device. In this process which lasted a surprisingly short
term of about ten years, the presence of  the web turned from a small
interesting peer to peer group to a huge  beast of millenarian
proportions. The monster as the natural companion  of a gigantic
destroyer. The spider’s web is an-eying the world , the  eye lost its
vision and is multiplied inwardly on a enormous scale ,  blinded by its
own image like the drowning men filming its own  drowning in a drowning
world."

[*] from:

Creative insurgency opposes established cultural domination - A. Andreas 2007

http://nictoglobe.com/new/query2.html?d=articles&f=ci

> Hi Simon and Andreas
>
> simon said:
>> Sometimes a cinema is just a cinema.
> Yes you're right sometimes a cinema is indeed just a cinema, although
> these days most are fitted with night vision cameras.
>
> andreas said:
>> No!, it is just another subversion of the mighty new media mob,
>> disguised as political correct, contemporary popular cultural analysis,
>> not properly making the distinction between 'art' and media.
>> Forget those empty words of McLuhan!
>> "The Medium is Not  the Message!"
> Could you say a bit more about what you mean here?
>
> thanks and best wishes,
>
> Jon & Alison
>
>
>
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