Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:17:36 +1100 (EST) From: "Glen Fuller" <g.fuller-AT-uws.edu.au> Subject: RE: modes of production and procedures of truth Eric, Cool! Bring on Multitude! I may be away from computer access and only be able to contribute intermittently to discussion. I was thinking I would write up some brief notes from each of the ‘dot point’ sections (1.1, 1.2, 1.3), and then when I had time engage with what others have written. I am finding the section on war a bit boring to tell you the truth. Delanda’s War in the Age of Intelligent Machines is a lot more exciting. Writing about SUVs is too easy - like throwing a sucker punch. Everyone around here seems to be so proud of themselves driving these spectacular monstrosities in an everyday way... critiquing such behaviour and the culture to which it belongs is a bit like pointing out to the emperor (of Empire) that, yes, he is indeed wearing clothes, but they are so ridiculously and inappropriately out of fashion that he is making an ass of himself. Someone needs to queer eye the emporer... > It's not just that we're assholes - we have to be moral pricks about it > as well! Self-righteous resentiment - shades of Nietzsche - we aren't > happy when we drive our SUV's, even in our big cars we still feel like > victums. Haha, this reminds me of the way the South Park boys constructed the US in their ‘Team America’ - as the biggest dicks in the world! The rise of the SUV may be a very useful analogy for discussing the first chapter of the Multitude (at least the bits that I have read) in terms of the production of security, I am not sure. I am quite certain that the rise of the SUV is linked to other reactionary exemplars of the refrain of the right-eous. Although there is nothing ‘networked’ about the SUV, not in the sense N&H are talking about it. Ciao, Glen. -- PhD Candidate Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney Read my rants: http://glenfuller.blogspot.com/
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