anti agression strategies

i just found this and i think it is a funny strategy to make fun of somebody, who ruins your work, the player didn't ignore the nokia sound, but reacted on it and in the end made a barock impro on it- showing 'i am better then you' :) and what is also funny that it can be almost a nokia advertisement :) as nokia sound is so popular and it is kind of wired to have nokia and bach hybrid :) and it became a media event , was on BBC - i think precisely because of it's good working strategy

anti agression strategies

theme

Affected States

from Usher video

from Ryan Trecartin's I-Be Area

fragmented, alienated as if ticks. thinking of the people who came back from WW1 and were traumatized and displayed all kinds of strange body movements tho they were not physically damaged to cause such body movements. 

In other words, the repression of the times as they manifest in affectations (concious or not). how affectation works with seduction, power, attention. Affectations of self-presentation in grid of sociability of post-fordist, contemporary capitalist state. 

spirals and circles....

check out zizek here (see link at bottom of this post).. he speaks v interestingly of Stalin --in line with what you have spoken of a few times... also speaks quite interestingly about how Stalin thought the perfect mix of revolutionary people's were russians and americans... (!)

also how the model for chinese new capitalism was Singapore. Very policed. Very repressed society. Controlled at every turn.

And then today I came across this interview with a guy who develops all kinds of party drugs in the UK. He is like a big chemist developer of radical drugs.  This is not just hippie stuff, but a whole new level.

Anyhow.. he mentions how difficult it is to manufacture these things in east asia and mentions that in Singapore if you are caught manufacturing such things the following can and does happen:


"In Singapore, ketamine dealers face 15 strokes of a brine-soaked rattan cane to the bare buttocks… probably in addition to execution." 


So in Singapore they don't fully abstract punishment, unlike other modern capitalist states. 

• and it occured to me the relationships here.. or rather perhaps just associations.. display of violence and/or passive aggression by the state (how that has changed... but perhaps is changing again)
• Stalin and the mystery of understanding what happened in the USSR (the tragedy of the failure of soviet communism)
• Singapore type capitalism being the model for Chinese authoritarian capitalism
• its a weird circle... but its there... 

click here is the zizek video 

and click here is the interview (doesn't have much to do with our project otherwise, but i just thought i would include the link)

Notes 1-21

passive repression

harder to discern where the problems are

worse then this movie by gibson of christ

at the end 

then finally the brain shuts off

role of the anchor (hanger) and the victim

after a while the audience empathizes the victim

a 100 years later public tortures 

were forbidden (officially barbarism - should be more human)

but is beginning of hiding the barbarity

prove the punishment and proceed the punishment

how they imprison 

thing is not visible to audience

violence becomes abstract

abstractization -- another example, how the measures goes

if we describe the spectacles of the torture

then would hide them under the cloth

would not see the violence but hear the pain

again abstracting… 

cannot place 

cannot give a name

cannot 

guillotine and other machines

no longer human relation with the hanger and the victim

machine is supposed to be more human 

whole procedure of the spectacle 

extension of the moment of the death

this extension is shortened for one second 

don't have time to realize what has happened

from the theatrical point

in order to develop emotion need time

but in terms of philosophical thought need only logic and the second

your perception of death is different

when in second then don't realize 

with the insitutionalization of aggression 

we don't realize the aggression

its abstracted

why still support Stalin cause they don't believe that it was him who gave the orders

seperation of the ones who did it and the ideology

shameful justice

system gets seperated 

people who support stalin still believe it was his enivornment and not him 

anyone who was a danger to this system 

neo-liberalism: aggression is not visible

it is seperated

displaced and fragmented

more and more difficult to grasp it. 

to find the ones who we can punish, etc. 

it is part of this democratic system that if you support the property only 

the ones who are in power 

will always be in profit

its just hidden 

so complex in the structure

new human being

we want to create a new creative entrepeneur (if not you are a loser)

sustains the illusion that its 'ok' and nothing we can do 

then goes to existentialist pathos

u lose your stomach -- when you think

opposed 

ballet - we should develop to the angels

we get rid of the emotions

but doesn't mean that the emotions aren't manipulated in teh world

becomes a positivism

being inside the perception

inside of something

and not taking something to 'present' something

dance is always pushing you to expose yourself (rainer)

disconnect emotion and body and then connect in different way

expressionism does not work cause there is no cut , no space for reflection

aggression didn't dissappear just changed its form

FE just saw the circles --- was always the aggression, always the aggression

no in all these circles there is a development

develop tools of analalytical watching

have an opportunity

get aware of my own repressions

spalding grey -- talks about his own fuked up family, makes himself very transparanet and vulnerable

not expressionist one, is really a duration.. in order to reach the emotion

do manipulate the emotions

u as an artist do possess the power to manipulate emotion

then the question is what kind of emotion do you want to lead to

bourgoise left is portrayed by fassbinder as not really worth your time (but on the landscape)

later works are really dramas, really uncovers their tragedy

in order for us to have time to experience their 

instead of rationalizing, hes uncovering, he lets us suffer

but within reflection

stays critical of certain characteriistics and ideology

how people remain 'unsocial' (let's say) and how fuked up it is

diary of a collaboration

this discussion

but interrupted by bringing out a new vacumn cleaner

and then another

is brought out which supplants the first one

can we discuss this because i think we are on a role here

then why don't you come here

i wish you would come here

don't have the money to do that

but you just inherited monies

Notes From 1-11

[1/11/12 12:22:59 PM]

avoiding being straight forward. using politeness, trying to be polite, "rational", in-control. then, playing, continuing, being-sensitive. and demanding support and energy and lieing (of the control-front)...actually, cannot give support -- as she is not asking support.  becomes manifestation of her own superiority. avoiding confrontation with herself and with the other

everything is nice. everything is fine.

passive-aggression is to make the other react violently

passive-aggression is provocation

german show you that you are not right. so in netherlands, its about is it "rational" to be so upset that you act not-normal in public space.

because you cannot act 'not-normal' in public space. the public space must be kept uniform, and empty of any upset.

we are all maintaining the good public space

assumption of general atmosphere

and this includes tolerance, fairness, hard work, good humour, reasonableness, efficiency

very committed to the system

hannah arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem

the illusion of bourgoise society (illusion of adam smith fantasy. of free market. that is it functioning with that).  the old "ruling class", elite, etc. comes in... such that the fantasy... is not 'real'... the structure of the system...

the illusion is provides a space of 'free-play' of Reason, of science. that more or less works. and relates to the maintaing the good public space. aggression invades the public space.  invades the positivity. questions then the system. how can you be aggressive, or unhappy when everything is functioning so good. you become a danger..

killer in norway. this system should not produce these kind of people.

how something noble/good gets performed in real life

not wanting to be seen. not really there. with specific points that are going to. be afraid tone. sadness tone. saying Take It Easy in different ways to (others). Occupying points in space. getting to them (without being noticed). Taking in things. to you. but not being noticed. v strong: tender ones or when things falling apart saying Take It Easy. work on fascist quality.

absolutism. not relative.

take it easy

you will manage

today not

that the repition is not really happening. that would be the illusion.


now we start from zero. in a certain way there is nothing else to destroy (no tradition.. no refering to the past.. then when this happens. you are in this emptiness)... ideology only within creation of enemy. and once gets close to actually achieving the vanquishing or destruction of the enemy the ideology becomes more hysterical (because confronting the illusion of it.. the paradox of it...).. (i.e. to destroy the jews in fact then means that they are no longer there. so therefore you no longer have the enemy in fact... and hence the ideology has to become more intense about this, just as they are getting close to realizing the 'real' goal... so as to hide the illusion.. and to keep it going!).

we can all agree on that. to create a common enemy. we then all unite. around the Nation. we can then cooperate. and achieve.



[1/11/12 3:20:50 PM] Call ended