M-A Brunelle, Romain, Miles, Audrey-----------------------

Paul Virilio. “Environmental Control”


First, after the reading of Virilio, we all aggree that the way Virilio think remind us the text of Oosterling. And some of the ideas of Oosterling emmerge in the Virilio text. First he is very critical on new technologies and like Oosterling he denounces our dependence to them. He also bring that, our notions of speed follow the evolution of the technologies. One of the key idea of the text is how technologies affect the way we deal with objects into a distance perspective. We do nothing anymore. Like we don’t use our legs anymore, we are always encapsulating into traveling machines. We do not cook. We buy all ready meal that you just have to heat up, to save time or because we are lazy. We do not construct our stuff anymore like our grand father did. Like knitting, or harvesting foods. We don’t do anything, so we don’t live anymore. So in General, like Oosterling, Virilio denounce the fact that we are alienated by technologies and at the end it kills our true essence.


Trihn. Mihn-Ha, “World as a Foreign Land”


We found that, the critical look she has on cinema was the most interesting issue of the text. I don’t know why. Maybe, that’s because we are all surround by movie and television so it reach more our interests. She declares that, cinema is far from reality. She claims that a good true documentary should not be aesthetic. Because the more you play with the image, in order to improve its quality, the more you hide the reality. And she also denounces the rules in cinema. Who write them and who decide what is good and what is not. Movies are a very great propaganda device. That’s why we should all have a critic look on them.