Alan Sondheim on Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:50:37 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> zoo, minima moralia |
0 zoo, minima moralia zoo functioning as an inverse concentration camp - the animals are ideally reproduced in their conservation ur-environments; they ideally reproduce in such environments; they are protected against the external violence of humans. but they are displayed, not in terms of relation, for the audience we watched and rewatched, but as individual isolates, spectacles; all con- nections were permanently broken, and the violence - especially of the children - was evident, as if it repeatedly struck the incarcerated bodies. the earth sends minor populations into condensation; we harvest and transfigure our destruction of habitat. but the obscene remains and intensifies - the violence carries no message but that of momentary stasis as animals cower as far from glass or mesh as possible - or else pose obsequiously in the hope of junk food engorgement. in the camp which is the zoo we watch our triumph over the demise of the planet; we watch the idiocy of our triumph; we watch the spectacle of destroyed cultures of any species not our own. in the camp which is the zoo we attempt the resurrection of the end of life; one can watch with horror at the gaping human mouths and screams staring at the last few members of one or another species; in the camp which is the zoo, we find the technological triumphant over each and every last bit of tortured flesh on earth. everything is identified, tagged, labeled; the spectators would like, as one said, nothing better than a taste of flesh killed as fast as possible, offered up for a last hideous meal. coda to reproduce until a plateau of stability is realized, but for what end; the human monsters want nothing more than their share of the game. lock the zoos; keep out of national parks and forests; return wildlife refuges to whatever environment is left. the zoo might flourish without that gaping audience; some sort of semblance of life might finally be returned to one or another abandoned spot of earth. better yet - to cleanse the world of humans who created this disaster in the first place, transforming the planet into one great concentration camp of final and irrevocable extinction. +++ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net