| lincoln dahlberg on Mon, 6 Nov 2017 13:53:30 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: <nettime> Utopian Plagiarism / Society of the Spectacle |
On 03 November 2017 at 10:16 Ian Alan Paul <ianalanpaul@gmail.com> wrote:The internet is not a collection of networks, but a social relation among people, mediated by networks.# distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission...The basically tautological character of the internet flows from the simple fact that its means are simultaneously its ends....The internet subjugates living men to itself to the extent that the economy has totally subjugated them....The internet is the existing order’s uninterrupted discourse about itself, its laudatory monologue....The internet reunites the separate, but reunites it as separate....The internet is capital to such a degree of accumulation that it becomes a network....The unreal unity proclaimed by the internet masks the class division on which the real unity of the capitalist made of production rests....The internet is ideology par excellence, because it exposes and manifests in its fullness the essence of all ideological systems: the impoverishment, servitude and negation of real life....ad infinitum...
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