Monday, 23. November 2009, 10:05:01
subjectivy, society, values, modernity
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What is money and sex nowadays? Why does it seems to value more than health, happiness, joy and all the simple things of every day's life?
I don't understand this world, never will... It's just so different from the world I keep in my mind. Truly, I would not change the peculiar universe of my subjectivity, even knowing it is not posssible to share it with others and it does not fit reality as society defines, expect it. Cause what they have to offer is so mean, cruel and beyond my abilities to adapt myself with what I can not accept, I do not agree and I can not even get close to it's purpose. How come? What's the point?
How come everybody considers it right with so man injustices, violence, prejudice, all considering money and sex above all as the maximum values of society? What's wrong with me that I'm not able to get this? Of course I wouldn't discard money nor sex, but not like this, as if they were the most important to achieve in life.
Sunday, 11. October 2009, 22:15:57
cyberspace, internet, technology, paul virilio
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The suggestive power of virtual technologies is without parallel. Next to the illicit drugs-based narco-capitalism which is currently destabilizing the world economy, a computer-communication narco-economy is building up fast. The question may even be raised whether the developed countries are not pushing ahead with virtual technologies in order to turn the tables on the under-developed countries, which are, in Latin America especially, living off, or rather barely scraping by, the production of illicit chemical drugs. When one observes how much research effort in advanced technologies has been channeled into the field of amusement (viz. video-games, real virtuality goggles, etc.), should this instantaneous subjugating potential - and it has been applied successfully in history before - which is being unleashed on the populations by these new techniques remain concealed?
Something is hovering over our heads which looks like a "cybercult". We have to acknowledge that the new communication technologies will only further democracy if, and only if, we oppose from the beginning the caricature of global society being hatched for us by big multinational corporations throwing themselves at a breakneck pace on the information superhighways.
Monday, 5. January 2009, 16:21:06
real, world, virtual, modernity
Nowadays, we are invited to think about these relations among the world of images (virtual) and the world of objects (real) everytime everywhere. The representation of the object is getting more importance than the real object itself.
The supervaloration of images added to the high possibilities of manipulate time and get more and more speed with machines which do works faster than humans may generate fashion things such as animations, spectecular shows of technology and all great programs of computers very nice and usefull for diverse tasks. It is really changing the environment where we live, even the way we think and , consequently, relationships as well.
The representation of an object is taking the place of the real object and there are some reflexions we should make about this subject before it gets out of human control, if it slready didn't. It's time for virtual courses, virtual culture, virtual friends, even virtual love affaires...
However, the whole is not very simple as it might seems. This process changes codes of language and communication affecting people in general all over the world. Different codes are created and it fragments the process of communication, expressions and comprehension among people of various cultures and regions.
The fragmentation gest velocity and leave the notion of time and space instable, which affects the subjectivity. There is no more safe place or predicted time for anthing. It is all kind of beyond human possibilities of control. Speed is the main point in all these changes.
People have develloped machines that work better than they do. Nobody knows what way it is going to lead us. Scientists prevew chaos in little time if no providences and cares were taken. And they don't seem to be taken.
WIDGETIZE