Archive for March, 2007
“Apparatuses are… not superhuman but subhuman — bloodless and simplistic simulations of human thought processes which, precisely because they are so rigid, render human decisions superfluous and non-functional” (Flusser 74). In honour of Vilém Flusser, who in his later years refused to purchase any books, instead quoting from memory and the books that were given him [ READ MORE ]
The simple answer to Martha Rosler’s question of “which political battles have been fought and won by someone for someone else” (307) is every one. That is to say, in the political sphere, there is no individual action. This is a structural necessity, insofar as the ‘political sphere’ is the realm of the polis, not [ READ MORE ]