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things I'm thinking about today...
Jun. 11th, 2008 02:18 pmPaul Virillio:
“Unleashed in the 1920s, the de-neutralization of the media paves the way for what has been called ‘the war of the domestic market,’ a massive ideological campaign addressed directly to the family puzzle that it claims to put together, even to reinvent, as an’ infinite receptacle for consumer goods.’ This campaign will soon become a veritable animal domestication of the American citizens (Speed and Politics, 128).”
“In fact, the government’s deliberately terroristic manipulation of the need for security is the perfect answer to all the new questions now being put to democracies by nuclear strategy... They are trying to recreate Union through a new unanimity of need, just as the mass media phantasmatically created a need for cars, refrigerators.. We will see the creation of a common feeling of insecurity that will lead to a new kind of consumption, the consumption of protection; this latter will progressively come to the fore and become the target of the whole of the merchandising system (Speed and Politics, 139).”
Carl Schmitt:
“The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and it its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded somewhat of a modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him to be an outlaw of humanity; and a war can thereby be driven to the most extreme inhumanity (The Concept of the Political, 54).”
“The equation state=politics becomes erroneous and deceptive at exactly the moment when state and society penetrate each other. What had been up to that point affairs of state become thereby social matters, and, vice versa, what had been purely social matters become affairs of state - as must necessarily occur in a democratically organized unit. Heretofore ostensibly neutral domains - religion, culture, education, the economy - then cease to be neutral in the sense that they do not pertain to state and to politics. ... This results in the identity of state and society. In such a state, therefore, everything is at least potentially political, and in referring to the sate it is on longer possible to assert for it a specifically political character (The Concept of the Political, 22).”
Martin Heidigger:
“For man becomes truly free only insofar as he belongs to the realm of destining and so becomes one who listens and hears, and not one who is simply constrained to obey.The essence of freedom is originally not connected with the will or even with the causality of human willing. Freedom governs the open in the sense of the clear and lighted up, i.e.. of the revealed. It is to the happening of revealing, i.e.. of truth, that freedom stands in the closest and most intimate kinship. All revealing belongs within a harboring and a concealing. But that which frees - the mystery - is concealed and and always concealing itself (The Question Concerning Technology, 25).”
“Freedom is that which conceals in a way that opens to light, whose clearing there shimmers that veil that covers what comes to presence of all truth and lets the veil appear as what veils Freedom is the realm of the destining that at any given time starts a revealing upon its way (The Question Concerning Technology, 24).”
“Unleashed in the 1920s, the de-neutralization of the media paves the way for what has been called ‘the war of the domestic market,’ a massive ideological campaign addressed directly to the family puzzle that it claims to put together, even to reinvent, as an’ infinite receptacle for consumer goods.’ This campaign will soon become a veritable animal domestication of the American citizens (Speed and Politics, 128).”
“In fact, the government’s deliberately terroristic manipulation of the need for security is the perfect answer to all the new questions now being put to democracies by nuclear strategy... They are trying to recreate Union through a new unanimity of need, just as the mass media phantasmatically created a need for cars, refrigerators.. We will see the creation of a common feeling of insecurity that will lead to a new kind of consumption, the consumption of protection; this latter will progressively come to the fore and become the target of the whole of the merchandising system (Speed and Politics, 139).”
Carl Schmitt:
“The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and it its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded somewhat of a modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him to be an outlaw of humanity; and a war can thereby be driven to the most extreme inhumanity (The Concept of the Political, 54).”
“The equation state=politics becomes erroneous and deceptive at exactly the moment when state and society penetrate each other. What had been up to that point affairs of state become thereby social matters, and, vice versa, what had been purely social matters become affairs of state - as must necessarily occur in a democratically organized unit. Heretofore ostensibly neutral domains - religion, culture, education, the economy - then cease to be neutral in the sense that they do not pertain to state and to politics. ... This results in the identity of state and society. In such a state, therefore, everything is at least potentially political, and in referring to the sate it is on longer possible to assert for it a specifically political character (The Concept of the Political, 22).”
Martin Heidigger:
“For man becomes truly free only insofar as he belongs to the realm of destining and so becomes one who listens and hears, and not one who is simply constrained to obey.The essence of freedom is originally not connected with the will or even with the causality of human willing. Freedom governs the open in the sense of the clear and lighted up, i.e.. of the revealed. It is to the happening of revealing, i.e.. of truth, that freedom stands in the closest and most intimate kinship. All revealing belongs within a harboring and a concealing. But that which frees - the mystery - is concealed and and always concealing itself (The Question Concerning Technology, 25).”
“Freedom is that which conceals in a way that opens to light, whose clearing there shimmers that veil that covers what comes to presence of all truth and lets the veil appear as what veils Freedom is the realm of the destining that at any given time starts a revealing upon its way (The Question Concerning Technology, 24).”