Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 19:54:35 -0500 From: Trent Smith <think-AT-sprint.ca> Subject: Re: just a small thought... evan, please elaborate. I am interested to hear what you have to say and why. Evan A. Leeson wrote: > Kroker is a reductivist, hyperbolic ninny with nothing of the philosophical > sensitivity or grounding of Baudrillard. Kroker is a character in a William > Gibson novel. > > Sorry I can't elaborate at the moment... > > :D > > evan > > At 01:00 AM 3/25/98 -0500, you wrote: > > > > > >Mark O'Connell wrote: > > > >> >yep thats the book and thanks for the info. But as you say enough about > him...! > >> > >> Why enough about him? We've had pages and pages on that syphilitic horse > >> kissing loser Nietzsche. Wittgenstien, perverse as he is, is quoted > >> endlessly. And of course Foucault (wouldn't be a party without him, god > >> knows), even Marx. I mean what the fuck. Why shouldn't we hear about > >> Kroker. He sounds interesting. > >> > >> Mark O'Connell > >> oconnell-AT-oz.net > >> > >> "You can't write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say sometimes, > >> so you've got to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream." > >> -zappa > > > >The following is from the Kroker's home page. An exerpt of an interview from > >Mondo2000. > > > >M2: You say we're in danger of becoming servomechanisms of > >virtual reality. That's provocative. Is VR the 90's definition of > >"getting a life"? > > > >AK: Getting a life is really about choosing your memory - you know, is it > >memory or Memorex? We live in a really recombinant culture in which > >the principles of recombinant genetics are lived out on a daily basis in > >everyone's lives. If you live in the mediascape - and who does not? - it's > >got ways to clone, splice, retranscribe and resequence memory itself. > >So in that sense, the notion of getting a life is: getting another kind of > >corporative way of moving through media itself. And you can't have one > >life, you in fact have a variety of styles. That's the basis of the notion - > >"Are we having fun yet?" > > > >M2: What is subjectivity in technoculture? > > > >AK: Subjectivity is always schizophrenic in tecchnoculture. Speaking > >subjectively of subjectivity, of course! It's always lived in a double sense. > >On the one hand your body is a processed world, processed as in > >sampler music - the language of aliasing, of condensation, of > >syncopation, of displacement, of speed-up and slow-down, all pretty > >much digitally recorded. That's the normal language by which we live in > >TV culture, in consumer culture, in our jobs and our music. Subjectivity > >now is fully ironic, fully ambivalent, fully paradoxical and contradictory. > >The technocratic specialist practices mechanical forgetfulness. that is, > >they manage to so engross themselves in data work that they lose sight > >of the ability to think deeply about what it means to be a human being > >and to engage in social relationships outside the imperatives of the > >technostructure. > > > >---------------------------- > > > >enjoy! Trent > > > >
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