Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 07:16:56 +0100
Subject: teletruth & the passover
From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


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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, 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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> 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).