File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1998/baudrillard.9803, message 96


Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 01:00:21 -0500
From: Trent Smith <think-AT-sprint.ca>
Subject: Re: just a small thought...




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.

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enjoy!  Trent


   

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