aryan kaganof: film maker
“Every picture tells a thousand lies.
Change the lighting and you have a different take on the real.
Ergo: an image based culture is a culture of lies.
The plethora of images means an overdose of lies.
We are always at war.
Only at war.
We are all soft targets in the war of the mind.
Our minds the battlefields for the image bombs of the market attackers.
Capitalism is one huge eye fuck.
The digital revolution is the Viagra of the eyefuck;
making it penetrate ever deeper, ever harder into your brain”.
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:38 pm
I understand the grafitti in Shooting Gallery a bit better now.
But I prefer the line “we are all soft targets in the war of the mind” to the line “there are no soft targets in the war of the mind.”
We are indeed always at war. It fuels the fear-factor machine. He who held the biggest club is now he who owns the biggest antennae. Democracy is the art of hard-sell.
October 19th, 2007 at 7:24 am
“Understood in its totality, the spectacle is both the result and the goal of the dominant mode of production. It is not a mere decoration added to the real world. It is the very heart of this real society’s unreality. In all of its particular manifestations — news, propaganda, advertising, entertainment — the spectacle represents the dominant model of life. It is the omnipresent affirmation of the choices that have already been made in the sphere of production and in the consumption implied by that production. In both form and content the spectacle serves as a total justification of the conditions and goals of the existing system. The spectacle also represents the constant presence of this justification since it monopolizes the majority of the time spent outside the production process.” – Guy Debord, The Society of Spectacle, Thesis n° 6
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 am
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