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THE SPECTACLE IS OTHER SIDE OF MONEY

The spectacle is the other side of money: it is the general abstract equivalent of all commodities. Money dominated society as the representation of general equivalence, namely, of the exchangeability of different goods whose uses could not be compared. The spectacle is the developed modern complement of money where the totality of the commodity world appears as a whole, as a general equivalence for what the entire society can be and can do. The spectacle is the money which one only looks at, because in the spectacle the totality of use is already exchanged for the totality of abstract representation. The spectacle is not only the servant of pseudo-use, it is already in itself the pseudo-use of life.
Guy Debord

 

 

ILLUMINATIG TECHNOLOGIES Report 010
The CD Writer as a weapon of mass destruction!

Illuminating Technologies Report 009
Topic: illuminating technologies
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Look, the machine begins to function, and its functioning successively seizes Perception, the Body, Sexuality, the Earth and Cosmos; in it everything is fulfilled, and every outer limit is estranged and disqualified as an insurmountable boundary, save for the very last one - Death.

ILLUMINATING TECHNOLOGIES REPORT 008
Topic: illuminating technologies

John Cage is remembered as saying: "I don't know what art is, but I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with the police."

ILLUMINATING TECHNOLOGIES REPORT 007
Topic: illuminating technologies

Copyright laws protect commerce from competition and from its own customers, allowing it to charge a rent on the past which finances domination of markets in the present - and which, in turn, is taken to guarantee the future. This putative guarantee comes at a certain price: software licenses checked at gunpoint in Brazil; a Russian software engineer arrested and jailed in the United States after a conference presentation of his work before thousands; indigenous Indians in Chiapas rioting after a police raid on a market of infringing goods; an 18-year-old Norwegian prosecuted for enabling a Linux based DVD player; American citizens sharing music prosecuted as felons; university researchers charged with criminal trade secrets offences for publishing knowledge derived from their own research works; China summarily executing trademark pirates as disciplinary examples. In AIDS-ravaged sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, pharmaceutical companies have instigated actions through the WTO and in national courts to prevent the cheap manufacture of the anti-retrovirals necessary for people to survive. Where once corpses accumulated to the advance of colonialism or the indifference of commodity capital, now they hang in the profit and loss scales of Big Pharma, actuarially accounted for and calculated against licensing and royalty revenue. With the aid of stringent IP law, companies are able to exercise a biopolitical control that takes to new extremes the tendency to liberate capital by restricting individual and collective freedoms and rights - even the right to life itself.

ILLUMINATING TECHNOLOGIES REPORT 006
Topic: illuminating technologies

It is wrong to say that the concrete existence of man is labour. For the life and times of man are not by nature labour, they are: pleasure, discontinuity, celebration, rest, needs, appetite, violence, deprecation, etc. Capital is supposed to transform all this explosive energy into a continuous labour force continually available on the market. Capital is supposed to synthesize life into a labour force, in a way which implies coercion: that of a system of appropriation.If it is true that the economic structure characterized by the accumulation of capital has the property of being able to transform the labour force into a productive force, then the power structures which have the form of appropriation have the ultimate aim of transforming living time into a labour force. Appropriation is the correlative in terms of the power of that which, in economic terms, is the accumulation of capital.

RADICAL MACHINES AGAINST THE TECHNO EMPIRE

ILLUMINATING TECHNOLOGIES REPORT 006
Topic: illuminating technologies
Information technologies, useful instruments of the control society, can be subversively turned around, activists can make use of the skills they acquire in their paid work for other purposes as well. Conversely, the ways of working that they learn in the scene world can also be useful to them in the neoliberal, flexibilized everyday world of work. Time-limited, project-oriented teamwork and spatial flexibility are only two examples from many. Particularly in a societal formation, in which signs, branding, images are increasingly important not only in the business world, but also for governments and multinational structures such as the WHO or the G8, the communication guerilla can carry out efficient attacks. The world of activism is not located outside the globalization process, the transition from the age of bourgeois democracies to something else, something not yet defined. It is part of this -- and it is in the intimate knowledge of the structures to be fought that its potential to at least question their legitimacy is found -- even if the next grand narrative is yet to come.

ILLUMINATING TECHNOLOGIES-MYSTERIOUS STYLE OF DEPTH

ILLUMINATING TECHNOLOGIES REPORT 005
What's to be done? We need to invent virtuous revolutionary radical machines to place them in the nodal points of the network, as well as facing the general intellect that administers the imperial meta-machines. Before starting this we need to be aware of the density of the 'intelligence' that is condensed in each commodity, organization, message and media, in each machine of postmodern society. ILLUMINATING TECHNOLOGIES

ILLUMINATING TECHNOLOGIES REPORT 004



In contrast to the notion
that new media turn us into passive consumers who just stare numbly at the screen, the real threat of new media is
that they deprive us of our passivity, of our authentic passive experience, and thus prepare us for
mindless frenetic activity - FOR ENDLESS WORK.