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Sun 3 Jan 2010

The Accelerated Virtualization of the Horizon of Globalization

Posted by Kathryn della Bitta under Virilio, computers, cosmopolitanism, future, globalization, information, mass culture, monumentality, new, omniscient perspective, phantasmagoria, power, sameness, scale, space, spectacle, speed, technology, world picture
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“[In our era] the computer screen [becomes] the ultimate window, but a window [that] not so much allow[s] you to receive data as to view the horizon of globalization, the space of  its accelerated virtualization…”

Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb, trans. Chris Turner (London: Verso, 2000), 16.

 

Sun 12 Jul 2009

Solanas and Getino’s “Daily Violence” in the Hour of the Furnaces

Posted by Kathryn della Bitta under Fernando Solanas, Octavio Getino, action, beauty, body, cinema, discontinuity, industrial production, modernity, rhythm, sameness, scale, specialization, speed, standardization, technology
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Fri 3 Jul 2009

Material Distortions and a Continuous Rhythm of Time-Space Compression and Expansion

Posted by Kathryn della Bitta under Larkin, everyday life, modernity, phantasmagoria, rhythm, slowness, space, speed, technology, things, time, time-space compression, time-space expansion
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Cheap tape recorders, old televisions, blurred videos that are the copy of a copy of a copy—these are the material distortions endemic to the reproduction of media goods in situations of poverty and illegality, and they shape the ways these media take on cultural value and act on individuals and groups. The dialectic of technological breakdown and repair imposes its own cultural experience of modernity, an alternative speeding up and stasis, and a world where gaps in space and time are continually annihilated and reinforced.

Brian Larkin. “Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy.” Public Culture 16, no. 2 (2004): 310.