COUNT THE PRESENT DAYS UNTIL TODAY ARRIEVES (A INSIDER-DOPESTER IN A LAB COAT)
(One of these days, walking into a random shopping mall, I notice that my passage into the building is marked by a curtain of air, as stealthy as it is constant: planes, cars, offices entering and leaving along the way --- suddenly, I felt like I was entering one of those white laboratories that get gloomy when the lights go out, in the back of a 24-hour pizzeria that, despite being disguised by alleys of cluttered garbage, exudes a bitter smell of cleaning with disinfectant, where all kinds of traffic noise and curses in Spanish seem to come from speakers installed close to my ears: metallic objects, animals rustling in cages, identification badges and passwords for authorization and access, and lab coats brushing against the elbows --- another world within the world --- movement inside: social skills --- maintaining emotional focus: political skill --- the cooperative pattern of joint effort, corporation, objectified consciousness, not trying to change anything from within, that's all --- as if the conditions were meticulously filtered so that an endless, "limitless" experiment could take place --- the entire "political issue" can be summed up as being able to speak to a superior on the phone, be received, heard --- the "inside-dopester" has to "be on top" of everything in the Company, its closed circle, where the big guys think and make their moves --- Here, in the laboratory, there are "demands" that make things rise and fall --- we manipulate ourselves, manipulating performance and speeds: we control the microorganisms in the air, the lighting, the food, the risk of contamination, the time spent in front of the glass of the guinea pigs or the coffee machine and --- the limits of the spaces, the shimmer of the objects, the "responses" --- if necessary, go to extremes, produce convincing results, useful to the operations underway outside, always avoiding appearing uninformed or "dependent" when requested --- IDEOLOGY: knowledge of the "updated political scoreboard" at the tip of the tongue, designing the behavior, through which we, scientists, can protect ourselves from criticism of our underlying irrationality, from the objectification of our cognitive consciousness, the "veils" that our instrumental work helps to weave before the eyes of society as we move in the opposite direction of the SUBJECT OF KNOWLEDGE --- one of them (veils) comes from Wellmer, for whom "endowed with meaning becomes synonymous with scientific", when in fact all our scientism easily becomes false in the face of central states of affairs, as Adorno suggests in POSITIVISM IN GERMAN SOCIOLOGY: "The stylistic negligence of many scientists, which can be rationalized through the taboo regarding the expressive moment of language, denounces a REEDIFIED CONSCIOUSNESS. Once science is converted into an objectivity, which MUST NOT HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE SUBJECT, the expression of scientific language ends up BAGATELIZED" --- Wittgenstein (continues Adorno) also needed to realize that language is distinguished from all factual being, because it is "given" only through its intermediary, and yet can be thought only in the moment of the world, of which, according to his reflection, nothing can be known except through language. This is how Wittgenstein reached the threshold of a dialectical awareness of the 'problems of constitution', reducing ad absurdum the right of scientism to amputate dialectical thought, which totally affects the usual scientistic representation of the subject'' --- later, Wittgenstein would become a Tolstoinian mystic and commit suicide (strange laughter) ---
ResponderExcluir--- in it, however, we already see the logician perceiving the limits of logic --- the "illusions that are harmful to his capacity" and the knowledge of the social mediations that reside in science are the daily bread in the laboratory, where government officials in civilian clothes and camouflaged messengers of the government party circulate, handling orders and news reports edited in such a way as to encourage the dominant ideology, the widespread false consciousness, the politically and socially necessary appearance of... "profit"? --- we certainly think here from the perspective of what they call the industrial-military-scientific complex, of which politics is a mere hypostasis --- without a doubt, all these fragments of office or coffee room conversations where "the progressing consciousness is accompanied by the shadow of its own falsification", is where through false purifying exorcisms, we believe ourselves free to measure and consume "values" according to our most "conscientious" desires --- we become the avatarized consumers of "DOPE", the "TIP", the great American vehicle for moving through the world of corporate positions and super salaries ---
ResponderExcluir--- Here, still according to Adorno: "... the closer we get to the determinations of the object, the more we unconsciously convert ourselves into objects --- we objectify ourselves, for we extirpate from ourselves everything that does not lend itself to our supposed domination." --- The air conditioning maintains a constant temperature; there is a myriad of silent devices that detect, monitor, and smooth out oscillations according to various defined and modifiable averages --- our organs adapt to such modulations, tending to evaluate the oscillations based on these averages of what we are already accustomed to and what is becoming accustomed to in us --- we become accustomed to political abuses, although not without mapping their tropism --- here, Adorno also resorts to Wittgenstein to explain that the "imposition of paradox testifies that in general the 'absence of contrariety' cannot be the last word for consistent thought, even where it sanctions its norm." ---
--- a way of always being alert but according to the tricks of the "corporations" --- yes, the "bodies" become for us juxtaposed blades, there always being a surface to be conquered and modulated; Rates multiply, the range of control unfolds, average next to average, just as in a merger or vertical integration of companies: air conditioning, cholesterol-conditioned, lactobacilli-conditioned, pulse-respiratory dilation-investment-return-conditioned, serotonin-conditioned, nora-adrenaline-conditioned, time-to-wake-up-conditioned, time-to-die-conditioned, number-of-words-in-a-sentence-conditioned, self-satisfaction-conditioned, etc. --- according to David Riesman, in The Lonely Crowd: "Such an apparent paradox may serve as a reminder that I speak of alteration in terms of patterns of conformity and response to others, and not in terms of the ideological and behavioral content of the response. Usually, there will be compatibility between the mechanism of conformity and the values and realities to which we try to accommodate ourselves, but this is only a tendency ---
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ResponderExcluir--- Here, for example, there is another kind of laboratory experiment in which one tries to inhabit, something like an 'open productions' studio --- a sound track is released by the friction between impossible-to-identify foci of otherness, the oscillations are themselves 'evaluations', the one who experiences it is an interpreter of a music whose origins are unknown, nor when it began, fulfilling the motivations of an entire inquisitorial procedure --- these sound 'fugues' do not respect chronological walls, as far as we can see, much less the concrete walls between which we eventually confine them, and they provoke countless mismatches in the interrogation --- then, a syncope of the senses accompanies the appearance of 'bodies' in us: our bodies become possessed by unusual movements, as if pressed by amorphous charges of energy, thought dispenses with things indispensable to our way of life, the acts of our thoughts soon tear us away from empiricism, language risks itself in gestures at the limit of bearable, very much akin to the nihilism of meaning, disconcertingly skirting the edges of the less than everything that one is: here, among the ''CIA drugged telepaths'', the soul is a stomach and their regime is a serious joke ---
ResponderExcluir--- : here, the ''supposed'' information will be situated most of the time ''between crystal and smoke''; between the redundant order of events and chaos --- information is still apprehended from mathematical instruments and their array of electrodes, through statistics and probability, since there is no clear detective trail --- and even though the result often sounds miserably "aesthetic", in the same way as "we speak of elegance in mathematics": "aesthetic", invented (apud Adorno) --- and there has been much comment among scholars on the analogy between "noise", which corrodes, disorganizes and sieves messages, in the informational domain, and "entropy", which mixes, erases distinctions and nullifies tensions, in the energetic domain --- an inevitable translation to the psychic of how noise is not only a destroyer of messages, but also a creator of new (psychic?) information, the key to self-organization lying in the passage from the energetic level (its psychic variation included) to the informational ---
--- all these speculations (it's worth saying) accompany the economic transformation underway since World War II: 'communication networks' (as well as the secret services, which began parapsychological exploration at that time) direct the allocation of energies, the management of signs commands the production of material goods (including atomic and nuclear bombs) --- but let's be careful... what we call information theory is just a mathematical approach to the transmission and circulation of messages (which doesn't exactly involve their formulation and spontaneous contagion): it has given rise to many refinements and subtle, almost esoteric transpositions --- with the quantitative instruments and concepts it developed, but it has never been possible, not even remotely, to address SIGNIFICANCE, in the most common sense of the term --- as the anthropological space of circuits and deterritorialized accelerations expands, physics, for example, is more interested in processes than in laws, more in imbalances than in states ---
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ResponderExcluir--- the deterministic chaos and fractal objects studied by the natural sciences echo the enthusiasm, the erratic behaviors (or 'escapes', or 'lines of flight', as a certain French philosopher calls them), the random elements that henceforth occupy the foreground of the human world (where things are decided) --- frequencies, harmonics, vibrations, gradients, the roar of nuclear reactors, hypersonic missiles, encrypted alien messages, catastrophic explosions of fury from large crowds in the streets, announcements of the end of the world, cosmic background radiation and Hindu spiritual powers, the Big Bang and antennas capturing intelligent activity aimed at the ends of the universe --- Isn't it incredible ???????????)