Visual Diary excerpt: May - September 2003 (Exploring Mass Culture as Conduit for Mass Psychosis) - pt 2 Danse Macabre

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Part 1 here


Keith Olbermann Tweet's out a video of mass psychoses induced insanity which he intends to reflect thru the camera lens as a mirror back to the Joe Rogaine viewers he so despises. https://docdro.id/MqdB88l


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The reason I am alive is to find the very reason I am alive. At the moments, I have notions as to what those reasons might be.
I am an experimenter, I live to think beyond the confines of reality and imagine something else; I am an investigator, slinking through the shadows armed with a dagger of poisoned knowledge beneath my coat, trying to find the exact subject-victim which I'll unsheath onto and slash them (in the correct and most appropriate manner of course).
That is what I try to excel at.

IRREVERENT NAMES FOR A SOUND THAT DEMANDS SUBMISSION AND THE REVERENCE

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Late-Stage Capitalism - is an economic system that obliterates national and psychological borders, undermines social bonds & fragments the individual psyche, all in the name of turning active citizens into passive consumers.
It has produce a world dominated by the twin conditions of Pastiche and Schizophrenia.
Late-Stage Cap marks the final colonization of the last enclaves of resistance to commodification; the third world, the unconscious and the aesthetic.
Unlike Modernism, Post-Modernism doesn't attempt to refuse its status as a commodity Au contraire: it celebrates it. Po-Mo marks the final and complete incorporation of culture into the commodity system.

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THESIS II: Ideology Has a Material Existence

  1. "Ideas" or "representations" which seem to make up ideology do not have an ideal (spiritual) existence but a material existence.
  2. The Ideal and Spiritual existence of 'ideas' arises exclusively in an ideology of the 'idea' and of ideology.
    *An ideology always exists in an apparatus, and its practice, or its practices. This existence is material.
  • Ideology = an imaginary relation to real relatoins.

An individual believes in God, or Duty, in Justice etc. This belief derives from the ideas of the individual concerned, i.e. from him as a subject with a consciousness which contains the ideas of his belief. In this way, as in by way of the means of the absolutely ideological 'conceptual' device set up ( a subject endowed with a consciousness in which he freely forms or freely recognizes ideas in which he believes), the material attitude of the subject naturally follows."

An Individual behaves in a way, adopts an attitude, participates in certain regular practices which are those of the ideological apparatus on which 'depend' the ideas which he has in all consciousness freely chosen as a subject. If he believes in God, he goes to Church to attend Mass; kneels, prays, confesses, does penance and naturally repents. If he believes in Duty he will have the corresponding attitudes, inscribed in ritual practices 'according to the correct principles.' If he believes in Justice, he will submit to the Law." pg 158-159

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Don't forget to danse the macabre away

all night long

from dusk 'til dawn

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[https://docdro.id/MqdB88l](Visual Diary - May - Sep 2003 p3)

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[https://docdro.id/tkFGGeW](Visual Diary - May - Sep 2003 p3 odd pgs)

[https://docdro.id/c314hpn](Visual Diary - May - Sep 2003 pg 28-31)

[https://pdfhost.io/v/7aS53fxfl_Visual_Diary_May_Sep_2003_pg_3637](Visual Diary - May - Sep 2003 pg 36-37)

[https://pdfhost.io/v/CqcPPZdqz_Visual_Diary_May_Sep_2003_pg_6669](Visual Diary - May - Sep 2003 pg 66-69)

Visual Diary - May - Sep 2003 pg 76-77

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https://pdfhost.io/v/mYQAqy~9p_Visual_Diary_May_Sep_2003_pt2

https://pdfhost.io/v/ugafM7gKY_Visual_Diary_May_Sep_2003_pg_104105

THE COMPLACENT HUMAN

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