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-"a computer made in Malaysia as a new kind of orientalist image."

"Dream work turns out to be real work."

IMPORTANT NOTE: -It's not so mcu that Capitalism produces "the Image", but that it turns "the Image" into Catastrophe; and profits from this (as it profits from all catastrophes, something brilliantly exposed and explored by Naomi Klein).

-"each [image] exists here as an intensity in an endless series of [spectralized] flows."

-"Viewers do not encounter the techno-imaginary only on the screen, its logic is inside them."

-"One begins to feel that the technological is the repressed of the theory of the unconscious." [...] "the unlanguageable medium exerts its invisible pressure on the appearance of things."

-"while suggesting that 'theory' as the critical thought which follows on the heels of philosophy's demise was film theory all along."

_"Cinema was to a large extent the hyper-development of commodity fetishism," says Jonathan Beller, "...so was advertisement" say I

-"grasping mediation as the extraction of productive labor (value)" Jonathan Beller

Terry Semel from Warner Brothers to Yahoo