Interesting as far as it goes. But limited by the extent to which it
ignores the way in which fear and terror pervaded pre-capitalist
societies. (for example -Virillo's prized catholic religion was founded
on fear, terror and politics. ) If we now recognize that terror is
something endemic to capital, which in our times I think it must be,
then it should be more explicitly identified with the ever-increasing
depth of the class hierarchy within global capital. It's difficult to
always remember that it is now deeper then ever before in human history.
It is not then that capital encodes terror, rather that capital now
produces terror as a by product of it's increasingly globalized network
structure. The consequence of the network society is the increasing
mediaevalisation of human relations, from personal to working and
beyond. This reappearance of serfdom and slavery, the bonds of vassalage
which place free human beings at the beck and call of lords - is why
their has been an increase in sheer terror. The current global economic
crisis will make the the structures even more global.
The events of Mumbai are not just a circus but the consequences of the
new serfs building Dubai and because the network society is a catastrophe.
steve
Verena Conley wrote:
Excellent point. Of course, terror is endemic to capitalism. Though we
still have to define it.
Also, since earlier we spoke of catastrophes, it seems fairly safe to
say that free market capitalism the way it was practiced since 1989
but especially 2000 is the real catastrophe.
Verena
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:05 PM, simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Does this mean - the following - the following (too late), which my
earlier post was an attempting to articulate: that capital encodes
terror? makes use of it in its flows of symbolic exchange? as if
having
reached a critical velocity, the accident of history is given to
returning endlessly?
Or conversely has there been some sort of symbolic phase shift whereby
the simulacrum, the coded world, that Image of
thought-as-representation, now only runs by circulating, through the
circulation of, acts/networked nodes of terrestrial and
extraterrestrial
terror? Is capital now entrained in the duration of terror? (As we are
entrained in the durations of its spectacular technological means.)
Simon Taylor
www.squarewhiteworld.com <http://www.squarewhiteworld.com>
www.brazilcoffee.co.nz <http://www.brazilcoffee.co.nz>
Nicholas Ruiz III wrote:
> As a reflection of the transparency of evil (Baudrillard), the whole
> lot of it, Mumbai, etc.--is commerical art...and the millions of
> downloads, transmissions and commentaries are its market, paid
for in
> broadcast fees, cable and satellite subscriptions and financed by
> advertisers: with media art critics and all! We are enveloped by a
> postmodern Roman media coliseum, where gladiatorial urges are
elicited
> and fulfilled, where spectators take part in the war games,
which are
> repeated endlessly and archived for posterity on the Network.
>
> NRIII
>
> Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D
> Editor, Kritikos
> http://intertheory.org
>
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