posts tagged ‘control’
Watchings
20 January 2012 • watchings
tags: cinema, control, death, dystopia, fantasy, fiction, humour, love, politics, television, tv series
• Drive (2011)
Nicolas Winding Refn
• Sherlock, Season 2 (2012)
Mark Gatiss & Steven Moffat
• Black Mirror (2011)
Charlie Brooker
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Billy Wilder
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Edgar Wright
• The Pillow Book (1996)
Peter Greenaway
• Point Blank (1967)
John Boorman
• Kick-Ass (2010)
Matthew Vaughn
• The Last Enemy (2008)
Immersion Into Noise
27 November 2011 • 1 comment out of context
tags: books, control, noise, politics, quotes
“If anything is representative of the art of noise, it is ambivalence.”
“Art must indict—or at the very least play the role of the noisy jester who unmasks the quietly persistent lies of the powerful.”
“Noise may break some connections, but connections will always continue to grow in other directions, creating new thoughts and new affects.”
“In one respect, all sounds and images are already a kind of noise: data without meaning.”
“An art of noise can also be postulated as a realm of anti-social cultural purpose directed toward the revolutionary transformation of an irrational social reality that insists on calling itself rational.”
“If we agree to combine this thought of noise art as a vacuole of noncommunication with an insistence on signal-to-noise psychological circuit breaking, we gain a more complicated image of noise—as vacuoles that re-route and break-up the pathways of control. Let us therefore entertain a noncommunicating art of noise as an aesthetic act that nevertheless communicates intricately.”
“I hypothesize that an art (or culture) of noise produced in our milieu of image superabundance and information proliferation can problematize culture and hence enliven us to the privacy of the human condition in lieu of the fabulously constructed social spectacle that engulfs and (supposedly) controls us.”
“What the art of noise does is to take the meaninglessness of noise and convert it into the meaningful.”
“I shall establish my fundamental contention that all art is fundamentally conceptual and imaginative because art only exists conceptually and its goal is to change our consciousness.”
“What was once noise (unacceptable) has now become noise music (acceptable and even desirable).”
“For noise to be first noise, it must destabilize us. It must initially jar. It must challenge. It must initiate a glitch of psychic crumbling.”
“Noise art theory, then, involves the exaltation of the void and the melting of unstable frontiers as it expands definitions both inwardly and outwardly to envelope from both sides a felt understanding of the unfettered immensity and myrrh of our universe (where noise of one sort or another is everywhere).”
“Ideally, communication must be separated from noise. Noise is what is not communicated; it is just there as a kind of chaos, as the empirical third element of the message, the accidental part, the part of difference that is excluded.”
“Normal noise, as opposed to art noise, doesn’t mean anything and isn’t about anything; it just is annoyingly so.”
“Torben Sangild points out in his essay “The Aesthetics of Noise” that in Genèse, French philosopher Michel Serres sketched out the idea that the ultimate being-in-itself is noise. Behind the phenomenal world (the world we perceive)—he proposes—is an infinite complexity, an incomprehensible multitude analogous to white noise. What Serres initially finds intriguing about noise (rather than the message) is that it opens up a fertile avenue of reflection. Instead of remaining pure noise, it becomes a means of transport.”
“Noise vs. music, non-intended sounds vs. intended sounds, life vs. art; the oppositional pairs resonating along with the first opposition form an ever-extending thread.”
“hyper-chaos (…) a form of absolutization where nothing is impossible or unthinkable.”
Doblegaron y quebraron a los hombres con los ritos y la música
10 July 2011 • out of context
tags: books, control, music, politics, quotes
“Cuando aparecieron los sabios, doblegaron y quebraron a los hombres con los ritos y la música, para así corregir las formas y actitudes de todo el mundo; y presentaron como modelo la benevolencia y la justicia, para consuelo de los corazones del mundo entero. Sólo entonces el pueblo se lanzó a la carrera en pos del conocimiento, y empezó a luchar ahincadamente por las ventajas materiales. Y ya no se pudo parar. De todo lo cual los solos culpables fueron los sabios“.
Soundmap of the #spanishrevolution
31 May 2011 • listenings
tags: capitalism, cities, civilization, control, phonography, politics, sound, space
Yes we klang!
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Streisand effect
26 May 2011 • out of context
tags: control, meaning, quotes
“The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to hide or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely. It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt in 2003 to suppress photographs of her residence inadvertently generated further publicity.”
If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution
18 May 2011 • out of context
tags: activism, control, music, politics, quotes
“I did not believe that a cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things. Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world —prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.”
This incident was the source of a statement commonly attributed to Goldman that occurs in several variants:
If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution!
If I can’t dance, I don’t want your revolution!
If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.
A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.
If there won’t be dancing at the revolution, I’m not coming.
The Discipline of DE
17 April 2011 • watchings
tags: cinema, conscience, control, fiction, patterns
This short film by Gus Van Sant is so absurd in a sort of [search for proper adjective] way that it reminds me to Peter Greenaway.
The script is based on The Discipline of DE, a short story by William S. Burroughs from the book Exterminator!
Watchings
6 March 2011 • watchings
tags: activism, apocalypse, capitalism, cinema, consumism, control, copy, data, documentaries, economy, music, politics, sound, television, tv series
• The Walking Dead (2010)
Frank Darabont
• Sound in Context (2009) [watch]
• The Social Network (2010)
David Fincher
• Remington Steele, Seasons 1-5 (1982-1987)
Robert Butler and Michael Gleason
• The Eye of the Heart (2003)
Mark Kidel
• Artscape – Stephen Vitiello – Listening With Intent [watch]
• The New Sound Of Music (1979) [watch]
• SYGNOK & The War For Radical Computer Music (2011) [watch]
• The Future of Art (2011) [watch]
El tormento de la elección
30 January 2011 • out of context
tags: books, conscience, control, quotes
“En cada acción siempre queda irrealizada la posibilidad contraria. Tenemos que elegir y decidirnos entre quedarnos en casa o salir, trabajar o no hacer nada, tener hijos o no tenerlos, reclamar el dinero o perdonar la deuda, matar al enemigo o dejarlo vivir. El tormento de la elección nos persigue constantemente. No podemos eludir la decisión, porque «no hacer nada» es ya decidir contra la acción, «no decidir» es una decisión contra la decisión”.
La enfermedad como camino
Thorwald Dethlefsen y Rudiger Dahlke