Post by Admin on Jan 27, 2015 1:17:50 GMT
the era of simulation is inaugurated by a liquidation of all referentials - worse: with their artificial resurrection in the system of signs a material more malleable than meaning, in that it lends itself to all system of equivalence,.. It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the sign of the real for the real, that is to say of an operation of deterring every process via its operational double, a programmatic, metastable, perfectly descriptive machine that offers all signs of the real and short.-circuits all its vicissitudes. p.2.
Anticipated resurrection, that no longer even gives the event of death a chance.
“Power is unjust its justice is a class justice, capital exploits us, etc.” - as if capital were linked by a contract to the society it rules. It is the Left that holds out the mirror of equivalence to capital hoping that it will comply, comply with this phantasmagoria of the social contract and fulfil its obligations to the whole of society. Capital, in fact, was never linked by a contract to the society that it dominates. Its is a sorcery of social relations, it is a challenge to society, and it must be responded to as such. It is not a scandal to be denounced according to moral or economic rationality, but a challenge to take up accordion got symbolic law. p15.
Simulation is characterised by precession of the model, of all the models based on the merest fact - the models come first, their circulation, orbital like that of the bomb, constitutes the genuine magnetic field of the event. The facts no longer have a specific trajectory, they are born at the intersection of models, a single fact can be engendered by all the models at once.p16
Power itself has for a long time produced nothing but the signs of its resemblance. And at the same time, another figure of power comes into play: that of a collective demand for signs of power - a holy union that is reconstructed around its disappearance. When it has totally disappeared, we will logically be under the total hallucination of power - a haunting memory that is already in evidence everywhere, expressing at once the compulsion to get rid of it (no one wants it anymore, everyone unloads it on everyone else) and the panicked nostalgia over its loss. The melancholy of societies without power..p.23
One must not resist this process by trying to confront the system and destroy it, because this system that is dying from being dispossessed of its death expects nothing but that from us: that we give the system back its death, that we revive it through the negative. End of revolutionary praxis, end of the dialectic. p24.
Through an unforeseen turn of events and via an iron that is no longer that of history, it is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is fro the death of God that religions emerge. A twisted advent, a perverse event, an unintelligible revision to the logic of reason. As is the fact that power is in essence no longer present exempt to conceal that there is no more power. - it is nothing but the object of social demand, and thus as the object of the law of supply and demand, it is no longer subject to violence and death. Completely purged of a political dimension, it, like any other commodity, is dependent on mass production and consumption. p26
No more subject, no more focal point, no more Center or periphery: pure flexion or circular inflexion. No more violence or surveillance: only “information,” secret virulence, chain reaction, slow implosion and simulacra of spaces in which the effect of the real again comes into play. p.30
They translate the passage of defined systems of expansion to systems of production and expansion on all levels-in a star or in a rhizome, it doesn't matter-all the philosophies of the relase of energy, of the irradiation of intensities and of the molecularization of desire go in the same direction, that of a saturation as far as the interstitial and the infinity of network.p72
Like the signs in advertising, one is geared down, one becomes transparent or uncountable, one becomes diaphanous or rhizomic to escape the point of inertia. p91.
Anticipated resurrection, that no longer even gives the event of death a chance.
“Power is unjust its justice is a class justice, capital exploits us, etc.” - as if capital were linked by a contract to the society it rules. It is the Left that holds out the mirror of equivalence to capital hoping that it will comply, comply with this phantasmagoria of the social contract and fulfil its obligations to the whole of society. Capital, in fact, was never linked by a contract to the society that it dominates. Its is a sorcery of social relations, it is a challenge to society, and it must be responded to as such. It is not a scandal to be denounced according to moral or economic rationality, but a challenge to take up accordion got symbolic law. p15.
Simulation is characterised by precession of the model, of all the models based on the merest fact - the models come first, their circulation, orbital like that of the bomb, constitutes the genuine magnetic field of the event. The facts no longer have a specific trajectory, they are born at the intersection of models, a single fact can be engendered by all the models at once.p16
Power itself has for a long time produced nothing but the signs of its resemblance. And at the same time, another figure of power comes into play: that of a collective demand for signs of power - a holy union that is reconstructed around its disappearance. When it has totally disappeared, we will logically be under the total hallucination of power - a haunting memory that is already in evidence everywhere, expressing at once the compulsion to get rid of it (no one wants it anymore, everyone unloads it on everyone else) and the panicked nostalgia over its loss. The melancholy of societies without power..p.23
One must not resist this process by trying to confront the system and destroy it, because this system that is dying from being dispossessed of its death expects nothing but that from us: that we give the system back its death, that we revive it through the negative. End of revolutionary praxis, end of the dialectic. p24.
Through an unforeseen turn of events and via an iron that is no longer that of history, it is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is fro the death of God that religions emerge. A twisted advent, a perverse event, an unintelligible revision to the logic of reason. As is the fact that power is in essence no longer present exempt to conceal that there is no more power. - it is nothing but the object of social demand, and thus as the object of the law of supply and demand, it is no longer subject to violence and death. Completely purged of a political dimension, it, like any other commodity, is dependent on mass production and consumption. p26
No more subject, no more focal point, no more Center or periphery: pure flexion or circular inflexion. No more violence or surveillance: only “information,” secret virulence, chain reaction, slow implosion and simulacra of spaces in which the effect of the real again comes into play. p.30
They translate the passage of defined systems of expansion to systems of production and expansion on all levels-in a star or in a rhizome, it doesn't matter-all the philosophies of the relase of energy, of the irradiation of intensities and of the molecularization of desire go in the same direction, that of a saturation as far as the interstitial and the infinity of network.p72
Like the signs in advertising, one is geared down, one becomes transparent or uncountable, one becomes diaphanous or rhizomic to escape the point of inertia. p91.