Dennis Redmond
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“No. 2’s infamous opening line is a double gambit: the Village does not really want information, of course, only obedience. (From their point of view, information is an exchange-value, not a use-value). In fact, it is No. 6 who truly wants information: information on who No. 1 is, where the Village really is, which side runs it, and how it might be possible to escape.”
― The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995
― The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995
“…the end of the Cold War has brought not prosperity for all but a pitiless economic struggle for pole-position on the food chain of information capitalism. The neoliberalism and neocolonialism of the 1990s are the direct heir of the Manchester liberalism and colonialism of the 1890s, the only difference being that whereas Victorian rentiers extracted their Imperial textile-rents from the labor of the Great Unwashed, their postmodern analogues on Wall Street speculate on the viewing-rents of the Great Unwatched.”
― The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995
― The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995
“Heiner Müller zeroed in on this contradiction by noting ascerbically that the main economic activity of the Eastern regimes was always the production of state enemies (in other words, the system produced vast numbers of literate, well-educated workers who could not fail to notice the yawning gap between the ideal of a people’s democracy and the despotism of the one-party state).”
― The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995
― The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995
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