[-empyre-] the act of forgetting

[ARISTIDE ANTONAS]

The work of resisting governments handouts, unregulated corporations,
scandalous injustice will more and more be similar to providing information
about them, if we consider the phenomena within the new media culture.
Resistance will be the information about someone or many of us
resisting. Resisting,
in the most of the cases, will become equivalent to information about
resisting. The problem would then not be how can we  allow all the phenomena
of injustice to occur but how can we respond to them in the frame of this
condition.

>From the other hand, rushing to any action thoughtlessly seems to form the
drive for the  world of tomorrow. We have to do an archaeology of the
idealized thoughtful action of the last century and its quality. Action will
more and more be equivalent to spontaneous unorganized violence due to the
urgency of desperate situations; information and its circulation will found
a new barbarism. In this condition knowing about things and acting against
them are condemned to be included in the same pool. Thinking as a possible
tank leading to intelligent actions is what we will miss more and more in
this upcoming civilization. The political space is not an open space any
more; it seems to be an always already archived enclosed space of the live
archive which is based in the net.

aristide antonas / athens

On 12 March 2011 07:56, Joel Tauber <joeltauber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Although we are all bombarded by seemingly endless amounts of imagery and
> “news”, I am convinced that we are also all suffering from information
> deprivation, and in a multiplicity of ways.  While media conglomerates and
> government powers shield information from us continually – and spin the
> information that we are being fed – I think we are also all guilty of
> collectively forgetting our histories.  Information is ignored even when
> we have access to it.   Certain things are just too difficult to face.  Government
> handouts, unregulated corporations, corporate takeovers of the media and of
> the government, industry’s devastation of the environment…  These are very
> old stories.  Why should we be surprised by these things when they
> continue to happen?  How can we continue to allow them to occur?
>
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>
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