Cologne 04-Apr-2003
michaelP schrieb Fri, 04 Apr 2003 07:16:56 +0100:
> Michael Eldred said:
>
>
> > Truth is
> > managed by allowing certain images to be transmitted and
> by forbidding other
> > images from being transmitted.
> >
> > As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words (tells
> lies without
> > mediation).
>
>
> but, the way in which images promote their 'reality effect' even
> though they are nothing but images, i.e., precisely not real,
Michael,
No, I think that the images are really real. The weight of being has
shifted historically to the tele-images through which the world
discloses itself. The world has to be set up in the technological mode
to be seen and believed. What doesn't get into the TV camera's eye no
longer really exists. It's part of the digitization of world. It it
can't be represented in and presented through binary code, it isn't
present in this world.
Michael
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> is always ignored (not just by the public exposed to such, but also
> by, for the most part, the 'thinkers' {such as those on TheList...})
> in favour of the darkening power and success of the images (untruths)
> themselves; their imaging is concealed by the images themselves
> (always viewed only with respect to their content, what they
> represent, what they show, what they say) and thereby passed by; but,
> the very imaging of the images, the power of re-presencing, the
> what-makes-images-images-at-all, is over-passed in a delirium of
> frenetic content analysis and reaction... what, I ask, does the
> tele-imaging say? (not the content, the images that swarm and swamp
> our thinking)
>
> and, here, in many ways, we are back in the most engulfing gulf of all
> -- that of the much-mystified ontological difference
>
> perhaps the old media warrior, McLuhan had a finger in a Heideggerian
> pie when he issued the much-misunderstood and repeated 'the medium is
> the message/massage'; perhaps we should take far more seriously the
> import of the little, much-maligned by the ignorocenti, word "is", in
> the McLuhanesque formulation above, of something cast into oblivion by
> the very success and benumbing effect of the media themselves...
>
> Heidegger says somewhere that animals and anxious dasein are both
> benumbed in the face of the world... somewhere there is a
> death-metal-thrash band called Benumb... time of the signs :-)
>
> michaelB(numbed)
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