luka
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capitalist reaslism
The colonisation of language
capitalist reaslism
Today Software basically is work in progress. Despite not being 40 yet (but soon enough) I do remember a time when you bought a finished software product. At some point in the early 2000s - when there was enough broadspeed connections available - you didn't get a "finished software product" any longer, instead a stream of update after update. In some cases a necessary thing regarding security, but also a way to make the costumers your beta-testers.
the popularity of the ufc is counter-dematerialisation. the theatre of the visceral. audiences reviling in empathising with physical sensation.
dHarry: Film is, in a way, deterritorialized and then re-territorialized from the product of the business practises of Hollywood into all image making and role playing in the world...
You are right film itself is almost the ghost, the revenant, between being and unbeing (the curious flatness of image and the alienating pixelization of the medium at once no longer aims to reproduce reality as does film, but rather as K-punk points out in his recent piece on IE, it is itself the very stuff of our current reality in the digital video of camera phones and embedded youtube clips...).
You could make a point perhaps about Lynch's journey from Lost Highway's video-camera horror ("I like to remember things my own way", the wielding of the camera as a weapon to be feared more than any gun by the "mystery man" etc) to Lynch himself as Digital video assassin, murdering film to allow it to re-occur outside of the cinema itself ("something has got out of the script" indeed...)
And you can see this also across the alt right in tge way history is used. If you read the comments beneath Mongolian throat singing videos or Altaic music videos, a harking back to the great nomadic tribes of central Asia. The thunder of massed hooves and the clouds of disturbed dust.
I can't remember if it was touched on previously but I've been thinking about fragmentation recently. Everything's being broken up into smaller and smaller pieces. Soundbites, memes, Instagram vids, football highlights, tweets. How many YouTube vids do you actually finish? How many articles do you skim or glance at? I can't remember the last time I watched a full game of football without also browsing online, reading some sort of live comment feed on the game.
That Burroughs thing about life being a cut-up comes to mind more and more, a person walks behind a car and you see a fragment of the person. The top half half removed from the bottom.
I can't remember if it was touched on previously but I've been thinking about fragmentation recently. Everything's being broken up into smaller and smaller pieces. Soundbites, memes, Instagram vids, football highlights, tweets. How many YouTube vids do you actually finish? How many articles do you skim or glance at? I can't remember the last time I watched a full game of football without also browsing online, reading some sort of live comment feed on the game.
That Burroughs thing about life being a cut-up comes to mind more and more, a person walks behind a car and you see a fragment of the person. The top half half removed from the bottom.
Barthy talks about this. Info-packets shrinking. Condensed into blips... .. ... .. . .. .. ..... . ...
I can't remember if it was touched on previously but I've been thinking about fragmentation recently. Everything's being broken up into smaller and smaller pieces. Soundbites, memes, Instagram vids, football highlights, tweets. How many YouTube vids do you actually finish? How many articles do you skim or glance at? I can't remember the last time I watched a full game of football without also browsing online, reading some sort of live comment feed on the game.
what text of burroughs is that that you are referring to? it sounds interesting.