nativebuddha on Sun, 25 Dec 2011 03:47:22 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> the audience machine |
Certain considerations of ?notable disjunctures? (Kluitenberg) in the public occupations globally: Following some of Raunig?s thoughts on Delueze & Guattari?s thoughts on machines?noting that the audience is the machine. Can we have an Arab spring without an audience? Can we have an Occupy movement without an audience? In a world driven by spectacle (under the guise of the political mystification labeled democracy), In a world where human relations are based on the dynamics of capital (this is nothing new, I know, but we all have to chatter a bit before we can chat), Based on the dynamics of capital, meaning that all relations must flow through a capital object in order to be a relationship?a world in which there is no relation between two (or more) people without a capital object materializing between bodies (note that this is part of what Kluitenberg is getting at and why he turns toward Hybrid spaces), capital objects mediate. But where do these objects come from? Microsoft? Verizon? GoDaddy? No. Too simple. Mediating objects come from the audience. The audience is the machine that produces our capital objects and that make it possible for us to have relationships (Jodi Dean is worth a read here.) Somehow we have been lured into the notion that we need, can?t live without, an audience, can?t have democracy without an audience. Democracy has relinquished plurality and instead grabbed on to mediating capital objects, such as ?the vote?. The vote now sits between you and me. And maybe even in Occupy?s GA?s, where it?s called consensus.) The audience machine?how does it make you you? And how do we dissolve it? -nb # 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: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org