Friday, November 30, 2007

A break-down of the code

I've been thinking about baudrillard's Requiem in relation to 9/11. His latter work on 9/11 indicates the possibility of a horrific transcendence of the code in an act of terrorism that epitomizes a new kind of symbolic exchange beyond the normalcy of the code of the reified exchange system. Here is a model of the code of exchange before I move onto how 9/11 complicates this entire structure

Capital (value exchange) Media (image/info exchange)

Products

Events (including speech or communication events)

Labor value, fetishization, reification, etc…

Prestructured models of interaction (fait divers all becomes organized into political categories)

Control of Surplus Value, immateriality of labor, social factory, etc

Mass Mediatization and the logic of reproducibility

Too numerous to mention

Singularity of revolutionary act, immediacy of communication,
Symbolic exchange beyond or against the code, democracy beyond decentralized authoritarianism

Resistant Poaching or Interactivity or Exit or “new Communism” of the multitude, etc….

The mortality of speech over the prescripted/preordained referendum style of writing, politics of surface immediacy without truth referent

“Stuff”



“Filtered”

through


“Effects”

(or causes)



Political Loss

(requiem)





Solutions


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