War as a happening thing

t byfield tbyfield at panix.com
Sun Jan 23 11:22:52 PST 2000



> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 06:55:49 +1100
> From: "rc-am" <rcollins at netlink.com.au>

[quoting brian 'flat-affect' massumi]


> "It is nothing new for the military to justify itself with the claim

<...>
> theatre of war by the link-up of high-tech imagery and weapons
> circuitry..."

was there *anything* interesting or useful in this? or, for that matter, even remotely deleuzian about it? it mostly sounded like the lock, stock and barrel schlock that emanates from third-rate wankademics who, for various reasons, have yet to notice the 80s are over--and, with them, gone is the time for mannered bullshit like 'The punctual, hierarchical, command-based exercise of power enabled by horizontal mass-media flows of necromantic not-doing.'

cheers, t



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