Thursday, June 23, 2011

Carceral Drone

"But it is not on the fringes of society and through successive exiles that criminality is born, but by means of ever more closely placed insertions, under even more insistent surveillance, by an accumulation of disciplinary coercion
...By operating at every level of the social body and by mingling ceaselessly the art of rectifying and the right to punish, the universality of the carceral lowers the level form which it becomes natural and acceptable to be punished."

M.F

Having just read 2 Foucault books back to back, i am feeling increasingly nauseated by social networking sites. It really preys into your social/peer fears and insecurities and you know it is abhorrent, yet you can't help logging in anbd seeing what's going on.
In a way it's easier to watch the world from a distance, but it is total Order of Things meets Discipline & Punish. Societal Masochism in a nut shell. Also, when installing a mail programme on my computer i had to process every email i have sent since i opened an account in 2002. that was WEIRD. I subconsciously wanted to do this as a way of processing the years since my dad died, seeing what i have done and how i have progressed. Upon doing this, I was VERY freaked out and have consequently had v crazy mood swings. Also now that therapy is going to finally finish, i have been having lots of thought of the void and the finite. More just hungover reflections (which is my way out of these downpoints) but still, it was somewhat therapeutic to act like a machine, processing your past, getting rid of baggage.

I've been thinking a lot recently about my relationship to machines, specifically my casio keyboard and my macbook. i play the same patterns each time, every day.
stereopathy. same internal conflict of john cage free thoughts vs drone repitition.
which is more liberatory? chance/drone prison or self sabotage from something being formed/ meditation.
Machine factory repitition- modern age.
Drone; what a funny term for music. Drone bees, oh you re such a drone. It doesn't really have positive connotations does it?

My blood circulation,
loop circulation,
circulation of capital
information circulation
nietzsche eternal return mental illness
cycles of abuse
being out of the loop

underground networks
is the ring bahn/circle line conceptually the best one?

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