Programming and Visuality: Toward Inscipto-Punctual Cultivation
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Technology is governance, and so is media. The study into the perceptual, cognitive, emotive, limbic and so on transformations wrought by the successive media, beginning with writing, then print, and then the acceleration of mediatic innovation in. the 20th century (film, TV, computers, smartphones, internet, platforms) should be undertaken as studies in mass mobilization—which may often take the form of mass neutralization. Each media provides new ways of cutting up and restitching experience, but this is so as to produce the kinds of selves needed to enter and manage or to reside their trust as clients in the disciplines. Modern technology—the perfecting of the imperative—has become the exclusive form of scenic design since the occupant of the political center has been placed on permanent trial; the corresponding development of capitalism as a mode of power has dictated the mobilizing uses of technology through the reciprocal capture of a particular sector of capital and the state. The most powerful sector of capital must drag in its wake other sectors in its struggle for differential accumulation through the use of state capacities to ensure the greatest relative discounting against espected future earnings of one’s own assets as against other sectors, and this is by now a global process whereby, for example, capitalists invested in China can soften up the American state for Chinese political and intelligence penetration (including, no doubt, sectors of Chinese capital). These struggles between capital-state articulations take the form of struggles between and within media, all of which can be brought with the compass of intelligence operations aimed at enhancing one’s own or undermining some opponent’s data security. Effective mobilization is when those in your own ranks know exactly what they need to know and no more, assuming what they know is in fact knowledge, however limited. (Knowing that your enemies can be hurt by the repetition of particular mantras is a kind of knowledge, regardless of the truth or meaningfulness of those mantras, and for certain ranks this may be enough.) But effective mobilization is also relative and depends on your ability to recruit to the point where effective mobilization is decreasingly possible for other sectors.
Programming and Visuality: Toward Inscipto-Punctual Cultivation
Programming and Visuality: Toward…
Programming and Visuality: Toward Inscipto-Punctual Cultivation
Technology is governance, and so is media. The study into the perceptual, cognitive, emotive, limbic and so on transformations wrought by the successive media, beginning with writing, then print, and then the acceleration of mediatic innovation in. the 20th century (film, TV, computers, smartphones, internet, platforms) should be undertaken as studies in mass mobilization—which may often take the form of mass neutralization. Each media provides new ways of cutting up and restitching experience, but this is so as to produce the kinds of selves needed to enter and manage or to reside their trust as clients in the disciplines. Modern technology—the perfecting of the imperative—has become the exclusive form of scenic design since the occupant of the political center has been placed on permanent trial; the corresponding development of capitalism as a mode of power has dictated the mobilizing uses of technology through the reciprocal capture of a particular sector of capital and the state. The most powerful sector of capital must drag in its wake other sectors in its struggle for differential accumulation through the use of state capacities to ensure the greatest relative discounting against espected future earnings of one’s own assets as against other sectors, and this is by now a global process whereby, for example, capitalists invested in China can soften up the American state for Chinese political and intelligence penetration (including, no doubt, sectors of Chinese capital). These struggles between capital-state articulations take the form of struggles between and within media, all of which can be brought with the compass of intelligence operations aimed at enhancing one’s own or undermining some opponent’s data security. Effective mobilization is when those in your own ranks know exactly what they need to know and no more, assuming what they know is in fact knowledge, however limited. (Knowing that your enemies can be hurt by the repetition of particular mantras is a kind of knowledge, regardless of the truth or meaningfulness of those mantras, and for certain ranks this may be enough.) But effective mobilization is also relative and depends on your ability to recruit to the point where effective mobilization is decreasingly possible for other sectors.