Okay, last class, on the 15th we talked about The Society of The Spectacal, Simulacra and Hyperreality. And, in actuality it is, of course, so fitting that a copy of a copy of a copy is hitherto sent to all of you regarding my thoughts, which are esentially a copy of a copy hitherto.of ....mine.... Therefore the referent is......nonexziztent.,.. which is good, actually., because that would be keeping in line with the sensiblility of last class.
Yes we live in a society of proliferated imagery, we all know this. TV, The News, Popoular Cinema, the internet, Mass media, Magazines, Zines, everything and of the above. For the most part most people with half a brain can see and acknowlegde that there is a game going on, ...being played by the producers of image and commoditiy, and those who choose what ever cost they may deem fit or sutible.....depending on their stakes, or gamble. The game is open....
It is a tight game, and yet, a loose engagement... between the conglomerate who produce, and market,..and those who partake and subsist..... I personally don't give a shit. I don't watch TV, I Don't really go to "popular movies" , I go to artsy cool movies,.. which anyone with a bit of a brain would'nt really normally go to. And most of the time, for fun I try to spit on people from my seventh story belcony, it gives me a ten second sense of power, one which no one will ever be able to take away from me.
Actually, I don't even go to artsy movies.....because they are too damn artsy, and pretty much too damn hyperreal. I Hate that about artsy movies.....they try to shove an ideal real down your throat,...even though the real is maybe, hopefully, centered around you. Around the feeling that there could be a suspection or surcumvention of primordial perception.
The hyperreal is the hyperreal, the simulacrum is the simulacrum, and the society of the spectacle is................
we do not need a history lesson. what we need is some straight up therory. Some thing down to earth to bring us young students to-ge-the-er.
let therory, technical exchange and collective maluability be the genisis within this evolutional partition.
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All this talk of movies and such... bahhh who wants to talk about movies artsy or otherwise? Maps there are the ticket.
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I found it very compelling that maps may be similar to the real thing at their oceanic borders however inside they change grow and are in fact a construct to give humans a degree of comfort, knowing that they are individual on some basic level.
This site contains the biggest collection of maps that I have ever seen. I think my favorites are the Internet black hole maps and the Internet public transit analogy. Maps are made I believe to make us believe that we are more different than we actually are. Although their means is also their end because if a person is told something long enough then it is feasible that they will begin to believe it. Maps have been around for as long as we have needed a way to navigate to travel however the only real separations if you think about it are where the land meets the water. (Interesting note if you are patient you will find a map on the site above that inverts this binary of inhabitable and un-inhabitable geological areas.) I kind of lost my train of thought.
personally, I think that Jeremy jeresky is full of crap and doesnt know what he is talking about, maybe he should lay off the crack, and hit more of the books
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