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“The aesthetic tactics and various ‘minor’ methods such as circuit bending, hardware tinkering and so forth are important links to a wider activist stance towards technical media.”
― What is Media Archaeology?
― What is Media Archaeology?
“In this spirit, one key methodological guideline would be: if you want to understand contemporary media technological culture, look at its science and military contexts, instead of the content of what is consumed as entertainment media.”
― What is Media Archaeology?
― What is Media Archaeology?
“The critical task of schizoanalysis, then, is to destroy the power of representation in all its many forms, including the Oedipus complex, the ego, religious and ethnic fanaticisms, patriotism, the debt to capital, and so on; the aim is to expunge belief from the unconscious altogether, to undo molar recoding as much as possible.”
― Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis
― Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis
“In other words, media critique is not only about saying things, it is about design and materiality – doing critique in an alternative fashion, against the grain, so to speak (see Lovink 2003: 11). Through such material existence, the media-archaeological work puts the spectator/user/viewer into a new relation with the imaginary, and hence forces us to engage creatively with the presence of media – new and old, imagined and real.”
― What is Media Archaeology?
― What is Media Archaeology?
“What I am proposing here is an experiment in practical Spinozism. Try it for yourself and see if it works. No matter what happens, say to yourself, “This could not be otherwise,” and see what happens to your mood. See if you are less or more affected by causes opposed to your nature. See if your thoughts become more your own or are continually sidetracked by external thoughts that intrude on you. In short, see if this makes you more or less free.”
― True Freedom: Spinoza's Practical Philosophy
― True Freedom: Spinoza's Practical Philosophy
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