There is something tragically ignorant about a media that doesn't understand what a dozen heavily armed soldiers are capable of... The response was similar in Europe, more based on the typical ideological phantasy than anything resembling fact.
steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks to all for posting such interesting comments. The hotel facade > in Mumbai did indeed become a Roman media coliseum where screens of > violence, blasts, fire spectacularly hid from view the horror and > terror of personal tragedy. While we watched immediate and > instantaneous feeds which brought terror, blasts, and carnage > directly to our television screens, the event unfolded in real time > over three plus days. Our American media critically asks why the > incident did not end more quickly with an immediate military/ police > intervention. Instead help was delayed. Short bursts of actual > footage, personal interviews and media commentary played repeatedly. > The replays filling the three days of horror were especially > displaced given the eight hour time difference where night and day > became conflated via the television screen. > > Renate Ferro > > >>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:05 PM, simon >>> <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[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 >>> >>> <http://www.squarewhiteworld.com>www.squarewhiteworld.com >>> <http://www.brazilcoffee.co.nz>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>http://intertheory.org >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> empyre forum >>> <mailto:empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au >>> <http://www.subtle.net/empyre>http://www.subtle.net/empyre >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Verena Andermatt Conley >>> >>> Department of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages >>> and Literature >>> Dana Palmer 202 >>> Harvard University >>> Cambridge, MA 02138 USA >>> tel: 617-495-2274; 617-496-6090 >>> fax: 617-496-4682 >>> >>> <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Erll/>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rll/ >>> >>> Kirkland House >>> 85 Dunster Street >>> Cambridge, MA 02138 USA >>> tel: 617-495-2272 >>> fax: 617-496-4620 >>> >>> <http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/%7Ekirkland/>http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~kirkland/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> empyre forum >>> <mailto:empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au >>> <http://www.subtle.net/empyre>http://www.subtle.net/empyre >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> empyre forum >> empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au >> http://www.subtle.net/empyre >> > > > _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
