Chapter three: Stay Alert

Here I introduce the first part of the third chapter, on next weeks I will be busy enough to deal with this strange text. However, I expect you to enjoy and assist to my veritable challenging.

—Chapter three;

Stay Alert

“The English live with the turmoil of two incompatible passions:

a strange appetite for adventure

and a strange appetite for legality”

Jorge Luis Borges [Chesterton and the Labyrinths of the Detective Story]

In the last chapter I tried to make a well-structured text but I failed miserably, the text was shattered mixing concepts and feelings. It derived from my lack of idiomatic knowledge, my leaning to the chaos and by living myself on this conflict, until now, too dreadful to dwell on. I walk chuffed through the quicksand of the human condition as a struggle for freedom but no for equality or harmony. It’s not possible to be unaware of the historical experience of human being neither hold harmless the own lifespan. This tough reminder of the struggle for coexistence between Others by addressing the dimension of present time configured my second shattered chapter. 

I also tried to continue one fact from the first chapter, intelligence alike accumulations of information, and bodies. As it happens in modern business enterprises –flexibility, market uncertainty- we have lots of generations entitled to love by an artificial intelligence and data analytics, Tinder, love easily compartmentalized into a folder, followers. Information cheated by an Instagram filter, and vouched by instant messengers. An illusion of multiple relationships, long-distance relations, old and new generations toying with emotions but most of all toying with their own sense.   

According to the domination’s speech modality, the Power mould our language turning it a phoney factory of truths. In Spain, there was one very important thing which I learned from; how to proceed from a long dictatorship into a -respectful and tolerant- state of democracy through the murky waters of a cogni-totalitarian regime. “What is controlled is tolerated, and what is feared is respected, a tolerant society is a society that tends to be dominated and must be repressed. And as such, the electoral fraud game is seen the only option/opinion.” In Spain I had been taught how easy it is to shift the very forms of organization and struggle of the revolt in one step; invoking the emotional intelligence to prevent a critical and constructive knowledge. I understand language as a text tool. But Power modifies its surface and designs an Orwellian “newspeak”.  This surface is what separates us as subjects from the archive that it signifies. We can’t underestimate the value of language and how it strongly refers to us like a solidified datascape.  Primarily, during the permanent state of alert of the last 40 years, which has two objectives; legitimize the clustering of wealth and to boycott effective measures to prevent the upcoming ecological catastrophe. The 1970s can be seen in retrospect a transition -from space age to new age- caused by the culture shock of seeing the images of Earth taken from the Moon. This sense of cosmic insignificance is not uncommon neither the culture shock. Gods were developed from this entry point. In recent decades a bemused humanity mutualized his apparent insignificance by blinking screens through and through. So a new standpoint transcends our parochial, and anthropocentric perspective; a new factory of truth. The dissolution of language parallels the shattering of the self into the new age. Age of information? Not at all, rather texts-to-be-seen than texts-to-be-read. Anyway, our biggest historical failure has been to not have followed the wording of our dreams, neither build it according to our own measure, our gauge of the distribution of the sensible.

For after all it is of little value to have built a room of one’s own if we are drown to kill the narrator.

To finish this recap of speed texts and the ordinary regimes of (re)production of truths I ought to say that feminism; the feminist movement is the most important incorporation against Capitalism. It designates to us that the roles of domination are social and cultural constructions that are scholarly, internalized, reproduced and transmitted from generation to generation. However, the ruling feminism only provokes political, linguistic and cultural changes that strengthen capitalism in its restructuring, not attacking what is inherent in it, such as private property and inheritance, or the State and its laws. Patriarchy persuades itself the notion of ​​being rotten and weakened due to the key victories of feminist movements in recent decades. In reality, domestic violence, sexist discrimination, and feminicide continue to increase.

 

THE dynamizing alarm

 

For first time in the earthling history, capitalism, is teetering as well neoliberalism does. Although the inherent capacity of States to put a human face on allows to lengthen its representation, that pretty human face is the nation as cultural identity and its valuation into Capital eventually. Instead of the reach of the peoples’ heritage; historic, cultural (no-profitable). At first the social matter has been co-opted by the Nation favouring a narrow-minded individualism, placing social functions in a well-structured honeycomb and accommodating the human algorithms in motion. This change has happened in just a century. In a glance we should be awareness that only a century ago writing a letter was a crucial question of remaining close to people. “The ease possibility of letter-writing must—seen theoretically— have brought into the world a disintegration of souls to the world” wrote Franz Kafka in his last letter to Milena, because it is a contextual conversation with ghosts; and not only with the ghost of the receiver, but also with the own ghosts. In the current state of alert, the ITC (information and communication technologies) often offer things that have already been chewed. The first glimpses dynamiting interpreters to make an effort at personal observations. Today the collective vertigo is unavoidable by this speed fisting media communication.

A man who published lavish praises to new-technology in his 1950’s 1960’s was Marshall Mcluham, among his mentors were Edgar Allan Poe and G.K Chesterton whom in turn did before. “The older training of observation has become quite irrelevant in this new time, because it is based on psychological responses and concepts conditioned by the former technology—mechanization.” [The medium is the massage] At first glance what I learnt from some old-fashioned techno-globalist clichés about an interconnected world for today’s civilized man perhaps is a sort of consolation, a flair for justice poetic. I guess how easily wise men thinks about technology, or science, as a consequence or developed product of the human being. Pop-intellect-actualité always is able to depict a longstanding story of achievements and failures but blinkered to see the line marks of autocracy upon them. It reminds me the tale of Kafka, once again “Before the Law” … “It receives you when you come and it relinquishes you when you go”. Should I look the door like an extension of my eye? Should I look the mechanic-frame alike an extension of my eye? Should I guess the extension as a soak time? Anyway tools are extensions of us because its conviviality is the output and absolute scale condition of order, or failure. Finally, this warning of catastrophic instability is the Natural Law and designing Freedom.

 

How -tech- is adapted in an organization -to reinforce the rules of a societary play-game, strengthen the institutional bureaucracy, tighten up the criminal, social, and moral laws- could be read in this painting brought from the book “Structural Stability and Morphogenesis” by Rene Thom

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"We live in straight lines, yet every man is in fact a labyrinth". Wrote Kafka to his poet friend Janouch. If I stop to consider two sec I find one swiftly answer to all these last glimpses. Man interiorises the frustration by can’t control live. So he creates fictions which controls him, monotorizing himself. The whole system of representative governments is the perfect fraud resting on it. Man formed gods in his own image. He even tries to conceive a technology formed in his own image. The superficially form is actually inseparable from the way Man is constructed by the world. According conveniently to uphold the hegemony of those in Power man CAN mutate in beetle CAN mutate in labyrinth CAN mutate in mass CAN mutate into a puppet cat.

 

The word “alert” comes

from the italian [all’erta] mandatory,

(be+upright).

 

Why it is so important for Power to catch the radiance of our eyes is an evidence. The power of men’s beliefs and illusions mainly are greater than their facts. In fact, the innovation of scientists has always been concerned with the deed and maintenance of routines. Personalities like Bill Gates, Elon Musk or Ingvar Kamprad see themselves as romantic heirs from a humanitarian legacy. Although these rainmakers are only sorcerer’s apprentices, coachers, outstripped executives for the positivist petit-bourgeoisie; a mere bureaucrat placed in an institution.

I take “Institution” to mean an organism interacting in its environment, weaving program lines with the environment. In the meantime, techno-bureaucracy (indoors) nothings need to interact, it’s busy producing itself, and given its expansionist nature, Capitalism is drawn to institutions. The West World Settler Rules.

The colonization embedded in everyday living is proof that the century nineteenth would probably still be going on today. Priti Patel refused to grant asylum to an 11-year-old girl. The girl, who is thriving at school and only speaks English was brought to the UK in 2012 by her mother, herself a victim of female genital mutilation….* The likely Western superiority is based on self-destructive individual interests...

*voxpoliticalonline – 03-July-2020

The Alarm

From immemorial times the strategy of Power always has been to isolate the individuals, managing his privacy, to separate him from his most intimate relationships. In 1887 Albert Parsons –editor and printer of the labour paper The Alarm- was hanged with another three strugglers in an ‘national’ trial. These anarchist martyrs had been created the celebration of the international Labour Day. “Gentlemen of the jury,” said the prosecutor, “convict these men, make examples of them, hang them and you save our institutions, our society”. 

 

The distinctiveness of these institutions was plundering the old poor world and emerging up a new poor world in their own countries to control and use in behalf of a “developing world”. 

 

World

World

Words …echoed in the mind of K.

 

Acquainted with the bell tolls

Anthropology -western institution– come along as science at the time capitalism began in the settler stage and -consequently- it required a total knowledge of the "strange customs" of those peoples that Empires had to submit in the settlements. This bell tolls were set up a long time ago to be rekindled now reigniting the dominant frequency. The present widespread colonialism. The old slavery was end but lingered with a clearing cheque.

Nevertheless, if we jump in time we could examine the technical progress in the labour world, when the progression of wage incomes was faster than that of productivity– in the late 1960s- we can see how it triggered an extraordinary inflationary process. In addition to an imminent taming, the dependence on rationalization of labour and Taylorization, increasing the size of companies and the concentration of capital. Capital productivity in global terms. Business management was led by expensive hierarchical cadre managers. The first oil shock and the 1974-75 recession allowed employers to develop a series of transformations taking advice from consultants, specialists, sociologists, the new anthropologists for the new colonialism. Here I need to remark the false split between proceedings and structure. I need to remark the full swing between the micro and the macrostructure.

 For the last 40/50 years we have been witnessing the tournament of the "revolutionary reformism" that acquires a reassuring virtue, to those/these periods, we could call them -times of trouble-. New charismatic personalities are elected to control the population. Above all supported by the -unlimited- of the law, I meant; Law is always utopia (ou-topos_no-place) and an ideal of the cave. We allow the no-limited divine justice and grace on behalf of the merry saint settler.

 

Government Bureau

 George Tooker (1956)

 

If we go to the technologies used –by the middle-class– at the household production, we can see how the housewife replaced herself the role from supervisor of ‘workers’ to machine-operator. The machine tools were called ‘consumer durables’ and not ‘producer durables’. In the Western Culture the women who didn’t take care of household chores were accused bad women and became a nightmare in the patriarchal imaginary. If we see the reproductive system, are we men and not women who need orgasm to be able to give birth. The female orgasm is much stimulating than the male one. The fear of/to female sexuality leads men to regulate it, to avoid a social chaos. As it happens; 200 million women are mutilated throughout the planet, without the possibility of orgasms they will be faithful women to their husbands, viewed from an exclusively economical angle; it is composed also of political, social and judicial elements. The pretty ‘macho’ is harsh, cold, passionately strong but emotionally mutilated. Sexuality is a biological, natural technique, it actives our imagination and our tipsy dreams. Here one must remark these corporeal techniques, biological techniques, as methods into communication with the mystic. I suppose it’s the reason because human being lives a very long childhood and the main characteristic is ‘caring’. Here our brain take place for many years until it reaches the maturity necessary and acquire the necessary autonomy and self-awareness. This is a work hardly charted at face value.

Anyway in our country the 77% of the National Health Service are women workers. They are acquainted with death, birth, damage, with smell and bodily fluids. They have always been in charge of healing, assisting the childbirth and laying out dead bodies to be buried. However, they still bearing the myth of being princesses given to a single person –burden- dedicated to a job of fidelity, patience and loyalty. To be at hand, his vulnerable -virginal- loyalty will be rewarded eventually.

Under the inquisitorial regime of the new economics each social phenomenon is situated in it. And since –technique- sharped a new environment serving new economics the ‘ethic cares’ never mind. Between the barbaric old and the civilized regime ‘ethics cares’ appears on the surface as a withe-washing… 

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