Virilio & Minh-Ha
Group 7 (Andrea, Alex, Dominic)
Environment Control
We believe that some of the key ideas in Virilio's text are our present-day perception of time, how our concepts of speed have affected the evolution of technology, and how this is all connected to our relationship with our surroundings. The effect is that humankind is becoming a part of its surroundings, and we are losing the core of what it means to be human by losing touch with what is reality and relying too much on technology. Everyday technologies are reducing daunting tasks to a series of small, simple motions, which shows how these two happenings are intertwined causing the blur in reality.(e.g. the click of a button turns on a television... you believe the reality is that you turned on the television when in fact the reality is that you only pushed a button).
When the Moon Waxes Red
One of the main focuses of this text was the mechanical eye, or rather the camera. Minh-Ha explores the notions of reality and subjectivity when recorded through the lens of a camera. She goes on to describe how most commercial movies are artificial and not a true representation of reality because it is a completely planned production, with each shot carefully taken into account and produced in an aesthetic final product. Whereas, in a documentary, it is, or should be, more subjective in that one is recording and reproducing reality onto film, choosing to include all elements of the reality, perfect and imperfect alike.
Environment Control
We believe that some of the key ideas in Virilio's text are our present-day perception of time, how our concepts of speed have affected the evolution of technology, and how this is all connected to our relationship with our surroundings. The effect is that humankind is becoming a part of its surroundings, and we are losing the core of what it means to be human by losing touch with what is reality and relying too much on technology. Everyday technologies are reducing daunting tasks to a series of small, simple motions, which shows how these two happenings are intertwined causing the blur in reality.(e.g. the click of a button turns on a television... you believe the reality is that you turned on the television when in fact the reality is that you only pushed a button).
When the Moon Waxes Red
One of the main focuses of this text was the mechanical eye, or rather the camera. Minh-Ha explores the notions of reality and subjectivity when recorded through the lens of a camera. She goes on to describe how most commercial movies are artificial and not a true representation of reality because it is a completely planned production, with each shot carefully taken into account and produced in an aesthetic final product. Whereas, in a documentary, it is, or should be, more subjective in that one is recording and reproducing reality onto film, choosing to include all elements of the reality, perfect and imperfect alike.
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