Tuesday, 23 March 2010
The images that are produced in mass, thirty million copies a time, for example, in Vogue, that carry the stereotype forcibly into archetype, conspire as a mythology of the body, emaciated at a level of inorganic energy. If televisual fragments of bodies also disperse the sign of the transmuted body as an exploded and reanimated detritus of living bits, transmitted at speed to a mass, what cultural signification has the human corpus? It would be impossible to return to the body as a unity, as essence of 'human' being, or transformed as avatar. The reconstruction process at best would be difficult, as its machinic possibility is also to be coerced as commodity, or as terminal for a production of more images, circulated as reproduction. The body is a terminal for the machine, yet there is a sense that a desiring mechanism remains in the sex appeal of the inorganic.
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