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umility that we can take our own freedom for granted this book is a must read for anyone who cares about the greater world beyond our neighborhood and the role that power be it the hard power of weaponry and kinetic energy or the soft power of relationships can play in shaping the world for better or for worse cross posted at wizards of oz and zenpundit written by deichmans february 21 2010 at 9 46 pm posted in fiction the information bomb with 23 comments verso 2006 compared to deleuze and guattari reading virilio is a breeze this is a short book of about 150 pages yet it packs as dense a punch as a thousand plateaus and uses similar concepts and terms virilio retains a pessimistic outlook regarding humanity s relationship to technology and views all scientific and technological development as being driven by military necessity hence the internet itself was developed by the defense department and originally named darpanet but is then unleashed upon the world as a means of connecting the world via information and ultimately giving the world finite boundaries that can be transversed instantaenously actual reality which is governed by physical spaces and distances is now supplemented by a virtual reality that produces and reproduces its own information that alters actual reality virilio s world is one in which all locals are truly global where only world time exists since all unfolding events are simultaneously broadcast across the world at every moment and just as we can instantaenously broadcost information to the world the world can just as easily look in and following the vast network of information exchange to focus on any event or place in the world thus we have an age of tele surveillance made possible by the grand scale transhorizon optics of universal global virtual reality p 13 15 the planet itself has now become cybernetic and endogenous meaning that all information broadcast on each reflexively feeds back onto itself and all points on earch creating new responses to new information created and disseminated in virtual reality everyone can which everyone else as global media focuses in and out of new objects a process that has its own strategic value ripe for manipulation take advertising given a global audience and a global market by the information bomb capitalism can now invent demand for any of its products among every single human population this is a new world ecology of information making possible new possibilities for self perpetuating war machines p 49 that reproduce themselves using global information channels since all information and locales are connected to each other competition with one s adversaries military or economic necessitates that each actor wages an all out war of information to disseminate itself to all other actors essentially to control information and how it is perceived thus globalization creates a single panoptical point of observation in which we are all directed to observe the same events and all observers can observe each of us p 60 61 virilio deplores the homogenizing effects of the information bomb yet at the same time fortells its own destruction by creating a self referencing virtual reality grafted onto actual reality the information bomb creates the possibility of an image crash where virtual ideas distort actual reality and do not conform to the perceptions of other actors in monetary terms virtual inflation no longer relates solely to the economy of manufactured products or the financial bubble but to the very understanding of our relation to the world p 113 virilio almost perfectly describes the american financial crisis in this section itself caused by making up things that didn t exist collective disbelief or at least belief in something else instead of historical periods longue durees time is reduced to light and speed a cosmological constant capable of conditioning human history p 119 conditioning is creating mechanical mental responses that automate human existence even democracy becomes automatic as life becomes cybernetic this history of the end of this millennium held in a levitated state is based almost solely on the incessant tele presence of events which do not really succeed each other since the relief of instantaneity is already winning out over the depth of historical successivity finally everything is reversed what arrives what suddenly comes to us is far more important than what leaves what goes off to the depths of our memories or the far reaches of the geographical horizon p 127 discursively creating a telepresence using global information technology can be understood as information warfare fought over creating real time exchanges on the dimensions of geophysical techno scientific and ideological global reality p 143 as if war was fought at light speed by the transmission of successive images that created new interests and objectives in the minds of other people and because the new ecology is linked to every other part of itself it can change rapidly and create dramatic shifts in group identities and interests historical processes that might have taken hundreds of years before the information bomb might be condensed or vulnerable to rapid and chaotic change because society is ideationally moving faster literally toward light speed thus virilio invents the term dromology to describe the logic of speed it might be interesting to see how dromology relates to contemporay wars particularly irregular conflicts like those raging across southwest asia update for another look at virilio check out adam s review which kicked off this blog yes reviewing the same book without realizing would constitute something of an epic fail on my part thanks for asking written by stephenpampinella january 9 2009 at 10 15 pm posted in uncategorized nuclear proliferation one more thing to read about and worry about with 2 comments tom barnett linked to this really good article entitled hidden travels of the atomic bomb the article had this awesome graphic the article is based in part on this new book i read the article my hand hovered over the mouse you know how this ends i bought the book when will i ever be able to read it who the heck knows i hope so cross posted at chicagoboyz written by lexingtongreen january 5 2009 at 11 40 pm posted in nonfiction a thousand plateaus with 2 comments gilles deleuze and felix guattari university of minnesota press minneapolis finally finished a thousand plateaus actually i skipped a 100 pages in the middle this is intense postmodern critical theory much more complicated than anything foucault has written in the intrdoduction the authors write that each chapter doesn t necessarily have to be read in order reinforcing the feeling that each goes in its own schizophrenic direction on the whole you can discern a method to the whole piece as it evolves from discussing psychology language and interpretation to more concretely political concepts like the state and the war machine before getting to the overtly political issues plateaus reads as if someone opened up all the possibilities of perception to one s mind emphasizing that all events and objects in the world can be viewed differently depending on one s spatial position and the assemblage of linguistic signs semiotic that assign meaning to observations in such a world without fixity and in constant flux what we should strive to be is a body without organs and always maintain the ability to renegotiate our internal structure organs to the reality we perceive the bwo is a connection of desires conjunction of flows continuum of intensities you have constructed own little machine ready when needed to be plugged into other collective machines p 161 in interactive situations to maintain this fluidity requires constantly being able to change one s face or faciality the shifting combinations of black holes on white screens orifices on the pristine face of christ form locations of resonance that connect the realities of interacting persons we observe each other s face to understand how other faces perceive us and their surroundings whether their expressions indicate anger satisfaction etc and like the bwo we should strive to have an ever changing face to the point that if human beings have a destiny it is rather to escape the face to dismantle the face and facializations to become imperceptible to become clandestine not by returning to animality nor even by returning to the head but by quite spritual and special becomings animal by strange true becomings that get past the wall and get out of the black hoels that make faciality traits themselves finally elude the organization of the face p 171 the overtly political elements are interwoven throughout the text but are fully expressed towards the end of the book in chapters discussing the war machine the state s apparatus of capture and smooth and striated space these sections make clear deleuze and guattari s affinity for the islamic scholar ibn khaldun whose muqaddimah charts a universal history of arab civilization the state itself is juxtaposed against a war machine it attempts to appropriate for its own policy in the form of military institutions however the war machine is always external to the state and outside its sovereignty and has to be continutiously controlled by the state lest it becomes self perpetuating and takes over the policies of the state only to reproduce itself and block the development of states by keeping societies segmented and divided p 355 these actual segmentations between social groups represent striated spaces that set the boundaries of smooth or nomad spaces one of the fundamental tasks of the state is to striate the space over which it reigns or to utilize smooth spaces as a means of communication in the service of striated space p 385 the state works against an insurgent war machine that is revived a new nomadic potential develops with each act of mobilization by nomads p 386 at the same time the state reimpart s a war machine that takes charge of the aim appropriates the states and assumes increasingly wider political functions p 421 therefore we can invert the clausewitzian relationship between war and politics and say that politics is the extension of war a global war machine created by capitalism that politically constitutes states with the knowledge and linguistic signifiers to smooth and striate space p 421 and give new territorial representations to otherwise deterritorialized locations in space this discussion of space is especially interesting in a military context given that idf brigadier general shimon naveh has incorporated the smooth striated space concept to describe a new tactical approach in attacking insurgent threats commonly known as walking through walls see this article and these couple posts naveh had misappropriated deleuze and guattari to think about space only in a physical sense by walking through walls to kill an enemy soldiers are smoothing out otherwise striated physical space however these tactics only serve to reproduce the social stratum that separates israelis from palestinians as well as the war machine that makes necessary the use of violence against subjects that are outside the state in other words a strategy of walking though walls has the social effect creating hostile perceptions of threat between the idf and its adversaries just as indiscriminately using airpower can erode political support for military action if the attempted smoothing of space is not accomplished by the state simultaneously appropriating and controlling the war machine it will ultimately weaken if not destroy the state if we take the smooth striated model and adapt to social space we can begin to see how insurgents and counterinsurgents compete to shape space and attempt to turn the war machine against their adversary insurgents deliberately use violence while embedded within civilian population baiting states to strike and cause collateral damage witness the current gaza war insurgents in this example try to use the war machine of the state to destroy its own political will to continue fighting at the same time collateral damage only recreates the communal identity of insurgents among the civilian population conversely if insurgents use violence against the civilian population as a means of establishing their political authority the state can mobilize its war machine in defense of the civilian population thus the state creates a shared identity a smooth space of common action and cooperation that excludes insurgents whose uncontrolled war machine destroys their claim to authority thus the state s or insurgent s ability to capture war machines relies upon the inability of adversaries to capture their own and instead are consumed by it on the whole a thousand plateaus speaks to the vastly complex and infinite range of possibilities taken by human societies in exploring the theme of relativity regarding social actors a body without organs recomposes its internal structure with what it encounters externally speaks to social scientific approaches that emphasize a philosophy of science similar to quantum mechanics as opposed to newtonian physics yet it concerns itself with ideational elements instead of purely material ones this is the same ontological stance that provides the foundation of john boyd s postmodern theory of strategy destruction and creation are themes of both boyd and deleuze guattari and a greater and more accurate application of critical theory to war can illustrate how social entities themselves in terms of both their boundaries and perhaps the structural functional composition of their internal parts are created and destroyed in war indeed this process itself often determines victory and defeat written by stephenpampinella january 5 2009 at 11 00 pm posted in uncategorized now available se s reading list with 4 comments i have written before on the nature of my personal reading program since i published that post i have received email and blog comments both at my personal blog and at chicago boyz from various people requesting a copy of my reading list read the rest of this entry written by smitteneagle january 3 2009 at 10 36 pm posted in fiction nonfiction uncategorized tagged with reading list excellent best of list from the middle stage with 2 comments one of my favorite blogs is the middle stage written by chandrahas choudhury chandrahas writes about literature as well as history fiction and nonfiction and very frequently alerts me to books i have never heard of but which i wish i had time to read in particular he writes about indian history a vast subject i want to know more about his list of best nonfiction for 2008 contains several which might interest the antilibrarium team and our readers i would particularly like to hear about what others think about his choices related to india cross posted on chicagoboyz written by lexingtongreen december 28 2008 at 9 34 pm posted in nonfiction 2...