[-empyre-] pirates, pirating pirates/duration tangent - animals

[Parikka J.]

Hi Simon,
I like the connections you are making; the infolding of time through bodies, bodies becoming carriers for a wide range of affects, time, extraction possibilities (from a certain value perspective, as realized in some of the "pass-it-on" contagious-spam-marketing campaigns); in this sense, capitalism is not only parasitical, dead, but involved in a wider variety of "productions" of modes of body, attention, forms of knowledge, for instance about attention. Some of the dualisms of creative multitude vs. just parasitical capitalism are a bit too simple, and hence we need to look at the various, complex "inventions" also from the nasty side - capitalism.

There is a whole ethology of capitalism in the manner Pignarre and Stengers talk about in Capitalist Sorcery - capitalism analyzed itself like an animal, in its various metamorphosis, modulations, lives (I owe this point to reading a nice manuscript on Cloud Time, forthcoming from Zero Books).

j

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Dr Jussi Parikka
Reader in Media & Design
Winchester School of Art
University of Southampton, UK
Http://jussiparikka.net

Adjunct Professor of Digital Culture Theory, University of Turku
Visiting Fellow at Institute of Media Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin - Spring and Summer 2011
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From: empyre-bounces at gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-bounces at gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of simon [swht at clear.net.nz]
Sent: 14 July 2011 08:32
To: soft_skinned_space
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] pirates, pirating pirates/duration tangent

Dear empyreans & Jussi Parikka,

tangential: but when, Jussi, you used the word capture to describe what
happens to time, how it is captured by the mechanisms of piracy, in
increments, piece-wise, by advertising; and your time, your personal
time, in other words, duration: I was taken to the world of the wasp &
orchid.

Here the capture is by camouflage, to the manner born, the orchid
becoming wasp-like; and in consequence the wasp becoming a medium for
the orchid's reproduction by carrying pollen, adding a surplus-value of
code. And the mutual deterritorialisations invoked.

I thought... well, advertising does this, becoming culture-like,
song-like, affecting before it is effective, evoking Emotion. It
captures affective duration. An infestation of time-eaters scuppering
the hulks. The illusion of personal time, taking time-out in dry-dock?

Or the sleight-of-hand whereby the personal becomes medium - adding the
surplus-value of 'attention' - attention signifying nothing more than
its capture by advertising. The completion of the cycle whereby the
affective association - to piracy - effectively makes off with, hacks,
pirates, or pillages the 'treasure' - which is itself, piracy.

best,

Simon Taylor

www.squarewhiteworld.com
www.brazilcoffee.co.nz
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