When the end is the beginning.
Contemporary life goes through another semiological transformation; the specters of technocapitalism leave an empty carcass of the human psyche behind.
A new host is needed, but what is left? What’s the damage?
The word & the image birth a new era of algorithmic consciousness. Like an ongoing call & response for years, centuries, millennia of accumulated evolutionary thought processes. Cognitive mechanisms spawning from feudal categorical models.
When my eyes see a tree, brain processes I seeing a tree; or rather an image of a tree. A code in a symbol, of material, in memory, from geography. An experience,
based on an image.
Mechanical representations.
In a world where capital sticks to itself;
Experiencing the image turns into hallucination of objectification, commodification, desire. A view of reality morphed by mythical norms of rationality. The original sin of representational betrayal, cognitive mechanisms.
In a world where capital sticks to itself;
Experiencing the image turns into hallucination of objectification, commodification, desire. A view of reality morphed by mythical norms of rationality. The original sin of representational betrayal, cognitive mechanisms.
Angelic cognition, a lack of conscience.
In an era where capital has been lifted into thin air; “I shop therefore I am” is "I am therefore I shop"; is "I exist, therefore I shop" is I don’t exist therefore I shop, is “I exist to shop”.
Is I shop to exist.
Is I shop to exist.
Human evolution is complete under the eyes of representation. In his image and likeness, we are God; we must do as we please. As we will. From good. From evil.
An Eurocentrist epistemological world model of seeing & being.
Religion's attempt to make sense of pain & suffering;
simultaneously destroys translation between self & language.
simultaneously destroys translation between self & language.
Trapped in a labyrinth.
In a religio-juridical classificatory schema. Religion fills a void of unarticulated physical & symbolic pain.
The church, the way, the truth, & the life.
Salvation in the name of Christendom.
The cross is salvation, the cross is the weapon.
The cross is salvation, the cross is the weapon.
Christendom in the name of salvation.
A weapon in the hands of imperial power. Access to colonial language gate-keeps access to the table of when and how the world gets built, rebuilt, & turned over.
Now a world seen, described, imagined.
Fast-forward, automated.
Now a world seen, described, imagined.
Fast-forward, automated.
Now a world seen, described, imagined.
Automated.
Automated.
Ordained by God.
From the Book of Nature to Aristotelians "natural slaves". A descendant of Ham is cursed, then reinforced over & over, until mechanized by “discovery” a 1942 ecumenical perception & evolution. A new Westphalian model of “peace”. Never forget, the stereotyped image.
In the name of peace, nations must be invented, cultures erased. The hierarchies of value reassigned, bodies injured & hard to dispose.
Disappear in the name of peace.
Disappear in the name
of progress.
of progress.
Literacy for domination, for image making. Internalizing a colonizer's worldview. Literal control. Power of erasure, alienation, organization, creation.
The world is a spectacle, commodifying experiences & turning reality into images.
An act of possession appropriates the subject, the moment,
flattening semiotic codes.
flattening semiotic codes.
In the new world,
Capitalism automates commodification.
Capitalism automates commodification.
Colonial models of owed desire.
So, what’s left behind?
What’s the damage?
What’s the damage?
The end of self.
A new host is needed.
