philosophy: proving the negative.
asking NO.
don't give me that. using neagtives and deniers as
ameans of attainment. -- sometimes it works but
generally klike-- if you were lucky like the football
was gonna fall in your lap anyway. i fully expect people
to look at this and say it means nothingbecause somany
people seek to attain by applying denials.
Just say No. refuse and resist...and so on and so forth.
as progressive movements take take apounding and fail --
as billions worldwide said NO NO NO to war and the war
happened anyway -- it becomes apparanet that "that's
why" --because people are attempting to use the language
and rhetoric of negativity to gain positive goals. i am
totally correct about this.
somuch so that i know it is the 'erueka' of the future
of progressive activism and initiative. people who are
proud of their tactics and their failures (??) will go
on screaming No until they are hoarse -- and being part
of nowhere direct actions and protests -- blaming those
they point to as culprits -- when they could have just
been verbally positive.
it';s not like wanting peace is notpositive -- it is.
but when the initiative - i am a protestor now going on
twenty years and trust me, the pizza, united, will NEVER
be reheated -
as long as peole scream NO to this and NO to that them
the same marchers and protestors will NOT get whatthey
want. the rhetoric of denial and negation caqnnot
produce positive results.
it;s that simple. it's negative(war) plus negative(stop
doing that) which mathematically creates negative
9wasted screaming, the fight goes on.)
naturally the reponse to this by people will be (no
way!)
--- Kent Farmer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have recently seen the extremely fascinating,
> albeit obscure, film, "USA The Movie". I discovered
> it after reading the Fall 2004 issue of Rhizomes.net,
> an online peer-reviewed academic journal
> that is one of my favorites because of their eclectic
> offerings. There, I read "Between Nomadology,
> the War Machine and the State: A Deleuzian Analysis of
> the Film USA The Movie". I became quite
> intrigued by both the essay and the clips from the
> film that accompany it. I highly recommend
> both the essay and the DVD. Here are some excerpts
> from the essay:
>
> "Immediately across a narrow street from Ground Zero
> is a 1920’s building with eleven stories,
> 114 Liberty Street. Undergoing a second renovation
> since 9/11, each of the nine full-length
> windows on the eleventh floor had been commandeered to
> deliver a large and clearly visible
> statement. From the left-window-to-the-right, the
> message was as follows: The first three
> windows declared “NO MORE WARS, NO MORE WARS.” In the
> three central windows were peace
> signs. The remaining three windows flanked the sixties
> symbol with the admonition to tell “NO
> MORE LIES, NO MORE LIES.” It was a bold condemnation
> of the moral bankruptcy and violence of
> Bush’s Iraqi war and occupation, and a strident plea
> that the Iraqi campaign should not serve as a
> progenitor for a 21st Century extension of 20th
> Century geo-politics, the politics of endless,
> infinite war.
>
> That is the basic, overt message of the underground,
> independent film, “USA the Movie.” But,
> within the film, the message is analogous to the
> opening and closing notes of a symphony, or the
> frequent repetition of a motif. It provides a basic
> coherence. But, as Barthes might say, the film is
> not a “readerly text.” In fact, it is largely a
> Deleuzian film, with direct and indirect references to
> the
> war machine, capitalism, ideology, religion, the state
> and nomadism. Like Milleu Plateaux, the
> narrative frame eschews temporality and discursive
> linearity in favor of time, place and identity
> bending. Filmed between 9/11 and the beginning of the
> Iraqi invasion, it’s a unique film, rhizomic
> in its structure, nomadic in its movement. As a
> document that is part contemporary history, part
> biography, part morality play, and part allegory, “USA
> the Movie” is arguably a significant
> exploration of “the American” as Deleuzian nomad, and
> the relationship between American
> nomadism, capitalism and the global war machine..."
>
> "...The director and Geist of the project, W.T.
> Zeyera.. created a complex structure of
> representation and meaning from of an intricate mix of
> dualities. In the process and product of
> USA the Movie, he fused reality with allegory,
> intention with contingency, personal troubles with
> collective tragedies, and art with history. Even in
> its limited circulation, the film has formed a
> rhizome with the world, generating a mapping well
> worth circulating, sharing, discussing,
> detaching, and redeploying. "
>
> link: http://www.rhizomes.net/issue9/issue9.htm
>
> The film seems to be available mainly through
> Amazon.com although it does have it's own website
> which can be accessed through www.manticeye.com
>
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