:. Group One :. Paul Virilio & Trihn T. Mihn-Ha :. Mohannad, Jason, Etienne, Brent, Jonathan, Bastien
:. Group One :. Paul Virilio & Trihn T. Mihn-Ha :. Mohannad, Jason, Etienne, Brent, Jonathan, Bastien
:.Environment Control , Paul Virilio :.
“It is less light than speed which helps us to see, to measure and therefore to conceive the reality of appearances.” Speed is the key concept of our hectic lives, we crave for it, the more we consume it, the more we want it. This may explain our fascination by information versus knowledge. Knowledge take too much time to acquire and we are bombarded by information, the fact that information is faster to understand than knowledge make it therefore more popular. If knowledge would take less time to acquire then information it would be preferred. This last statement will somehow sound obvious in our fast pace society, but what makes us choose fast information rather then slow knowledge ? Why always going for the fast option ?
Our movements, with the help of technology, can defy time and space. We can talk to the other side of the planet with only a few seconds of delay, we don’t even have to leave our home to buy clothing, food, or accessories from around the world. Why ever leave your home, if you can do now whatever you could do before, but now without leaving your property.
There is a key concept that I fail to grasp which make people very open to any technology that make old things go faster. Maybe a desire of control, if information is send and received faster, the power control will benefit this acceleration of communication.
:.When The Moon Waves Red , Trihn T. Mihn-Ha:.
I believe she criticizes about the perceived notion of the documentary, how there attempt to duplicate reality is vain and “un-imag-inative”. By trying to present life with the less apparatus as possible is presenting a grey, dull and objective world, while it is quite the contrary.
In a way, a documentary try to erase it’s medium just like movies are doing and pretending to represent reality. While cinema uses lighting, montage, actors, etc., the documentary uses non of these apparatus, but it non the less still has to power to pull the viewer into it’s web just like movies by the use of naturalism.
:.Environment Control , Paul Virilio :.
“It is less light than speed which helps us to see, to measure and therefore to conceive the reality of appearances.” Speed is the key concept of our hectic lives, we crave for it, the more we consume it, the more we want it. This may explain our fascination by information versus knowledge. Knowledge take too much time to acquire and we are bombarded by information, the fact that information is faster to understand than knowledge make it therefore more popular. If knowledge would take less time to acquire then information it would be preferred. This last statement will somehow sound obvious in our fast pace society, but what makes us choose fast information rather then slow knowledge ? Why always going for the fast option ?
Our movements, with the help of technology, can defy time and space. We can talk to the other side of the planet with only a few seconds of delay, we don’t even have to leave our home to buy clothing, food, or accessories from around the world. Why ever leave your home, if you can do now whatever you could do before, but now without leaving your property.
There is a key concept that I fail to grasp which make people very open to any technology that make old things go faster. Maybe a desire of control, if information is send and received faster, the power control will benefit this acceleration of communication.
:.When The Moon Waves Red , Trihn T. Mihn-Ha:.
I believe she criticizes about the perceived notion of the documentary, how there attempt to duplicate reality is vain and “un-imag-inative”. By trying to present life with the less apparatus as possible is presenting a grey, dull and objective world, while it is quite the contrary.
In a way, a documentary try to erase it’s medium just like movies are doing and pretending to represent reality. While cinema uses lighting, montage, actors, etc., the documentary uses non of these apparatus, but it non the less still has to power to pull the viewer into it’s web just like movies by the use of naturalism.
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