[...]uman
="lsts lst1">•the ethical and radical realisation that the human only comes into existence by the work of (organic ='lgc'>+ ="trms">technological) nonhuman others
cyborg ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> as="trms">sociated with liberatory modes of identity
='strcls'>**="trms">technology deconstructs everyday human experience of ="trms">agency, free will, choice, self='strcls'>** ='at'>@="nms">apass
21st century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technology is the center of critical thought about culture and ="trms">nature (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why it became organically part of my ="nms">ajayeb research)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*to think about ="trms">technology in a manner which reflects its ubiquity, its deeper ="trms">symbolic and ="trms">aesthetic dimensions, the way in which it can radically chnage humanness and human-centered approaches
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(humanistic ="trms">epistemology ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) mode of the human='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. information processor
="lstsrd">2. cognitive subject
="lstsrd">3. cultural subject
posthuman mode='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. to widen the temporal range of research (deep future, deep ="trms">past)
="lstsrd">2. take the form of an ethical inquiry (where the human is no longer the center of the ="trms">world)
="lstsrd">3. to think about the ="trms">ontology of ="trms">technology
="lstsrd">4. the ="trms">relationship of the human and the nonhuman (sustainability)
20th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gene
21st century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> posthuman (postgenetic ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors)
robotic revolution ='lgc'>+ bio="trms">technology revolution > agricultural revolution ='lgc'>+ industrial revolution ='lgc'>+ information revolution
(="trms">consumer research started to develop an outlook that) things are just as complex and ="trms">social as people
="lsts lst1">•brand='lgc'>: entities that talk to and ="trms">interact with other brands, entities that form ="trms">relationships with humans
(lives that seem to exist in on the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges of simple humanist life='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*massive='strcls'>* life of ="trms">market
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">excessive='strcls'>* life of the brnad image
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*virtual='strcls'>* life of Face="trms">book
="lsts lst1">•
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="trms">consumer research focuses on the ="trms">ontological and ="trms">epistemological givens of only the ="trms">consumer
(Turkle theorizing) how ="trms">consumers change through their ="trms">relationship with the nonhuman
="lsts lst1">•="trms">children view certain objects in the ="trms">world around them as having degrees of aliveness
="lsts lst1">•="trms">children who have grown up with computers do not experience a dichotomy between biological and computatinoal processes
="lsts lst1">•playing with a toy like transformers, the toy shifs from being machines to being robots to being ="trms">animals ='lgc'>--learning='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fluid boundaries between mechanism and flesh
="lsts lst1">•(the ="trms">ontological stickiness of the) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]computer='lgc'>: a mind that is not yet a mind, inanimate yet ="trms">interactive, it does not think yet neither is it external to thought
(Menser ='lgc'>+ Aronowitz) television='lgc'>: a complex object constituted by and related to many fields (solid-state physics, politics, etc.)
="ppl">="ppl">Latour...
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (such way of theorizing ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> precondition of) an era where radically mew ="trms">technologies produce entities as indefinable complex global (as the Human Genome project) biofuel supply-chains or climate change models ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> also cryptocurrencies, blockchain='lgc'>]
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">consumer rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers are creating new concepts and ="trms">figurations in order to expand the borders of waht constitutes life ='lgc'>[='thdf'>for example “living-product” ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor='lgc'>]
(the problem of the) ='lgc'>[="trms">ontological division of='lgc'>] ="trms">consumer ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">world of objects ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (ideological move ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) privileges human ='lgc'>: it is understood by the human, because the human (the only source of analytical attention) is the only thing doing the ="trms">consuming, having the experience, making the meaning
="trms">figuration='lgc'>: new ways of taking account of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practices that create ='strcls'>*knots='strcls'>* of ="trms">material-="trms">semiotic actors ='lgc'>{='lgc'><='lgc'>-- art does that='qstn'>? art's sometimes unreal ="trms">figurations ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>**="trms">interpretative ="trms">consumer research makes the most rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic ="trms">figurations of this century='strcls'>**='lgc'>}='at'>@="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Chloe2
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the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors of our time='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•becoming (='lgc'>=/= being) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a shift towards a ='strcls'>*process ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•
(Parsons ='lgc'>+ Maclaren)
items of disposal (do not fail to exists, but rather they) are ='strcls'>*moved along='strcls'>* to other spaces or politics and become other things
="lsts lst1">•becoming a precious antique
="lsts lst1">•becoming a water blockage
="lsts lst1">•becoming a source of marine death
="lsts lst1">•becoming a ="trms">materially precious thing (in another part of the ="trms">world)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**how things actually move, how they ="trms">transition between many states='strcls'>**
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*object='lgc'> = ="trms">data about the object ='lgc'>=/= tangible thing='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- (="trms">transition) from thinking of object as the primary reality ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> perceicing the object as ="trms">data in computatinoal environments
='lgc'>==='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (change of the ="trms">nature of object ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) radical shift in theorizing ="trms">consumer behavior
posthumanism
="lsts lst1">•a key term in contemporary western postindustrial era
="lsts lst1">•a term htat has been used ti describe a highly ="trms">technologized future existence
='lgc'>--variationally='lgc'>='lgc'>--> other ="trms">stories (="trms">fables) about ="trms">technology exists ='lgc'>=/=
="lstsrd">1. the claim of (often monolithic) novelty of the ="trms">historical moment in the west
="lstsrd">2. that ="trms">technology is a sterile ="trms">instrument
="lstsrd">3. that ="trms">technology aids the human in his ascent to ever greater degrees of humanity
(="trms">greek tradition ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>*to think deeply about ="trms">technology, we have to think about its ="trms">ontology='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•="trms">techno-="trms">sociology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Latour
="lsts lst1">•="trms">ecological feminism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway
="lsts lst1">•post-="ppl">Marxism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Tiziana Terranova
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•philosophy of tech ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>: the most d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous thing we can do is to think of ="trms">technology as something neutral ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we often make two ='strcls'>***intuitive ideological jumps of reason='strcls'>*** when we think of ="trms">technology='lgc'>:
1. “="trms">technology='lgc'> = means to an end”
2. “="trms">technology is created by humans”
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='thdf'>example of ="trms">anthropological truth (about ="trms">technology) ='lgc'>~ it is a truth as it appears to human beings ='and'>& it is an ='strcls'>*="trms">instrumental truth='lgc'>: truth aimed at getting things done or making things work='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">technology='lgc'>: the mode by which realities are brought into existence in the ="trms">world (hervorbringen) ='lgc'>{unconcealing ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a concealment of another reality='lgc'>}= (process of) ='strcls'>*="trms">poiesis='lgc'> = bring out ='lgc'>+ conceal='strcls'>*
="prgrph prgrph2">-the ="trms">greek word ='strcls'>*="trms">techne='lgc'> = ="trms">technology ='lgc'>+ art='strcls'>* derived from the term ="trms">episteme (the ways in which one can know reality) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>****="trms">technology='lgc'>: a type of ="trms">epistemology, a way of knowing='strcls'>****
='lgc'>}='lgc'>==="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*="trms">technology needs to be understood beyond its ="trms">instrumenta="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list humanist ="trms">history='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*seeing ="trms">technology ="trms">historically as an ancient ="trms">phenomenon='strcls'>*
="trms">technology thought of as something that comes from the west ='and'>& does something to other people in other placers ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a framework (even well-intentioned) that denies both ="trms">agency ='and'>& contemporaneity to the ‘other’
(-McQuire)
(we are told that)
="lsts lst1">•the era we exist in is the “information age”
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">world is “="trms">networked”
="lsts lst1">•marheting is “service-dominant”
='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what realities do the terms “information” “="trms">network” “service-dominant” create, unconceal, conceal='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">questions of='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-what is the ="trms">consumer='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-the ="trms">nature of ="trms">consumer consciousness, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, desire
='strcls'>*far from being a neutral uncomplicated ="trms">relationship, ="trms">consumers develop strategic behaviors for ='strcls'>*coping with ="trms">technology='strcls'>* that is paradoxial ='lgc'>+ fantastical ='lgc'>+ ideological ='lgc'>+ multidimensional
(-Konzinets)
="lsts lst1">•DIY ="trms">technologies='lgc'>: forms of competence redefined ='lgc'>+ redistributed between hardware ='and'>& human
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technology ='and'>& identity ="trms">interpolate each other
global debates of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•fear of genetic determination
="lsts lst1">•="trms">nature of consciousness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> similarities and ="trms">differences between computation and human being
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intimately concerned with the status of humanness
1990s theories of gift-giving, possession, labour, self-concept ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*cyber ="trms">consumer='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> circulation of desire and commodities in environments that are so highly mediated and ="trms">technological that it begins to generate behavior and ="trms">situations that are quite foreign to existing thinking about that ="trms">markets are and what ="trms">consumers want
='strcls'>**="trms">technology='lgc'>: an active force that both ="trms">consumes ='and'>& creates ="trms">consumers='strcls'>**
(problem of) sustainability
="lstsrd">1. to sustain='lgc'>: rest, retreat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> humannes is a major threat to all nonhuman planetary existence ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='thdf'>the idea that radical threats to nonhumanness must be warded off by radical decreases in human population, ="trms">consumption, normtive standards of living
='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this notion of sustainability exists radically at the limits of human capability (more than ="trms">ecological crisis or human inequality, more than the threat of terrorism or nuclear proliferation)
="lstsrd">2. to sustain='lgc'>: to extend, strengthen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea that if we are not here then nothing on the planet has worth; if humans ado not exists, then the earth does not exists ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> our efforts of ="trms">ecological sustainability are intrinsically human-centered ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--(implicit attitude)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> prolonging humanness='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">ecological problem='lgc'> = crisis='lgc'>: an intense, short-lived episode in human ="trms">history ='lgc'>+ it will be solved by high-="trms">technology solutions
="trms">technology has co-evolved with being throughout billions of years ='lgc'>--Hayles='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (myriad profound subtle ways) to make ="trms">nature
='lgc'>--paradox='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*it is “human ="trms">nature” to use ="trms">technology ='lgc'>+ ="trms">technology changes “human ="trms">nature”='strcls'>*
='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***while not everything is ="trms">technical, everything is ="trms">technological='strcls'>***
='strcls'>*posthuman stance (strategically oriented towards deep future, pays attention to the lives of nonhuman others) gets ="trms">ontological with ="trms">technology='strcls'>*
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McQuire
defining the ="trms">technological ='lgc'>--activate='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the border between ="trms">nature ='and'>& culture='lgc'> = (the heart of) what it means to be human
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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="trms">system attic
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(in ='mywrk'>my work with ="nms">apass digital designs, i have been trying to negotiate with ='thdf'>the notion of)
='strcls'>*="trms">technological gaze='strcls'>*
what new modes of subjectivity are filtered through ="trms">technological gaze='qstn'>?
(='qstn'>?how) high-tech images are cultural artifacts
="trms">technological gaze's ="trms">method to put its meaning together='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. impossible subject-="trms">positioning
="lstsrd">2. ="trms">codification of flesh
="lstsrd">3. visualization of ="trms">scientific ="trms">narrative
="lstsrd">4. ="trms">aestheticization of information
(Maturana ='lgc'>+ Varela) everything said is said by an observer ='lgc'>=/= philosopher
="trms">marketing ="trms">communication theory
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]gaze='lgc'>: (a ="trms">technical term for) the ways we visually ="trms">consume images of people and places ='lgc'>+ the ways images are constructed to entertain ='and'>& encourage certain ways of seeing
="lsts lst1">•(using psychoanalysis) ="ppl">Mulvey's gaze='lgc'>: the way in which the camera acts as the eyes and ears of the ="trms">spectator, ="trms">presenting ways of framing the ="trms">world (power-laden ='lgc'>+ not neutral ="trms">position) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> certain understanding of the ="trms">world is assumed
="lsts lst1">•Shroeder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gaze signifies a psychological ="trms">relationship of power ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the gazer is superior to the object of the gaze ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="trms">zoo='lgc'>]
how “human” ways of experiencing the ="trms">world are gradually being ="trms">integrated with non-human, ="trms">technological ways of perceiving and understanding reality='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Baudrillard ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> virtual gaze
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Virilio ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> automation of perception (war weaponry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea that in west we have ="trms">technologies so advanced we achieve absolute vision)
="lsts lst1">•Balsamo ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cosmetic surgery (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= new visualization ="trms">technologies) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new forms of dominance ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Kardashians TV shows='lgc'>], ='strcls'>*replacing the male gaze with a normative dis="trms">embodied ="trms">technical gaze
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technocratic gaze
="lsts lst1">•Strafford ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (starting in enlightenment) ='strcls'>*automated spectralization='strcls'>* (in visual ="trms">presentation of the ="trms">world) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the intention and purpose of the gaze became medicalized and ="trms">technologized ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to cartography='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (from ="trms">techno="trms">science to feminism) theorists have noticed a ='strcls'>*splicing='strcls'>* of direct and tactile human perception of reality with another reality, one that is mediated and ="trms">technical ='lgc'>==produce='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a new reality that negotiates the individual's knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the universe in diverse and complex ways (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- not catastrophic ='lgc'>=/= Hörl)
(time of) intellectual and artist upheaval ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new and surprising modes of ="trms">imagining the human
1950s concept of cybernetics constituted a fundamental change in thinking about control, ="trms">communication, information, life itself (='lgc'>+ new ="trms">language of feedback, auto="trms">poiesis, cellular automata, neural net)
1990s
computers ='lgc'>+ information ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cybernetic theory='lgc'>: (stressed that) information patterns are more important in understanding organisms than ="trms">materiality
='strcls'>*cybernetic view of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> information ="trms">coded in pattern ='and'>& randomness ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">material absence ='and'>& ="trms">presence='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•(both) human and ="trms">technological='lgc'> = informational entities
="lsts lst1">•human='lgc'> = cyborg='lgc'>: (human conceived as) cybernetic organism
='lgc'>[='qstn'>?how='lgc'>] discourses (="trms">narratives ='lgc'>+ ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors ='lgc'>+ ="trms">symbols) of ="trms">science and ="trms">technology ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> use in advertisement to create meaning
='strcls'>**="trms">technological ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>--seize='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social ="trms">imagination='strcls'>**
always reinforcing the ='strcls'>*awesome power of ="trms">technology to capture reality='strcls'>* (objectively ='lgc'>+ without any ="trms">agenda)
="lsts lst1">•movie Fantastic Voyage 1966 ='lgc'><='lgc'>--Dijck='lgc'>-- fascination with envisioning the body from a ="trms">different perspective
="lsts lst1">•status of foetus (float in black and white) ='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>-- meanings whose legitimacy comes from ="trms">technological ="trms">systems of perception
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[computer-generated images ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>?='lgc'>] camera-generated images ='lgc'><='lgc'>--Cartw="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right='lgc'>-- (paradox of) camera's role in capturing the real ='lgc'>+ camera's capacity to evoke emotion and ="trms">present a sense of the unattainable ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= (to appear to be at once) both ='strcls'>*magical='strcls'>* ='and'>& ='strcls'>*truthful='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==introduce='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new subjectivities into ="trms">marketplace
mediation of visual ="trms">phenomena through the eye of ="trms">technology ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> new sets of truths (about the body, environment, etc.) ='lgc'>--often='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ='strcls'>**dis="trms">embodied ="trms">technological gaze looks at the body='strcls'>**
advertisement becomes more highly finished, ="trms">excessively produced, artificialized ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">technological gaze is found in the discourse of advertising ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">scientized ='and'>& ="trms">technologized images celebrate a particular view of ='strcls'>***life as information='strcls'>***
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="trms">nature='lgc'> = figures ='lgc'>+ ="trms">stories ='lgc'>+ images (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= topos, commonplace)
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paying attention to ="trms">nature like a ="trms">child ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">trope='lgc'>: a verse ="trms">interpolated into a liturgical text عبادات to embellish or amplify its meaning
="trms">language ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material-="trms">semiotic flesh
liturgical possibilities of ="trms">nature
="lsts lst1">•="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian liturgical year
="lsts lst1">•Zaratusztrian nowruz
="lsts lst1">•star wars ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practice of turning ="trms">tropes into ="trms">worlds ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> war of imagess='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•war of words
="lsts lst1">•
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(agonistic fields='lgc'>:)
military combat
sexual domination
security maintenance
="trms">market strategy
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="brkr">
(="trms">techniques of the observer - september 9, 2012)
="lsts lst1">•What is the ="trms">relation between the de="trms">materialized digital imagery of the ="trms">present and the so-called age of mechanical reproduction='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•ongoing abstraction of vision - Problems of vision
="lsts lst1">•transformation in the makeup of vision
="lsts lst1">•="trms">history of art ='lgc'><-> ="trms">history of perception='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•onlooker (Zuschauer)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">historically important functions of the human eye ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> medical, military, and police hierarchies
="lsts lst1">•Most of the ="trms">historically important functions of the human eye are being supplanted by practices in which visual images no longer have any reference to the ="trms">position of an observer in a “real,” optically perceived ="trms">world.
="lsts lst1">•where abstract visual and ="trms">linguistic elements coincide
="lsts lst1">•avoid mystifying it by recourse to ="trms">technological explanations (this was my mistake!)
="lsts lst1">•an observer is more importantly one who sees within a prescribed set of possibilities, one who is embedded in a ="trms">system of conventions and limitations.
="lsts lst1">•="trms">measurable in terms of objects and signs
="lsts lst1">•newly constituted human ="trms">sciences in regulating and modifying the behavior of individuals.
="lsts lst1">•it was through these disciplines that the subject in a sense became visible
="lsts lst1">•passage from the ="trms">geometrical optics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to physiological optics
="lsts lst1">•to expose the idio="trms">syncrasies of the “normal” eye
="lsts lst1">•Retinal afterimages, peripheral vision, binocular vision, and thresholds of attention
="lsts lst1">•outcome of a complex remaking of the individual as observer into something calculable-and regularizable and of human vision into something ="trms">measurable and thus, exchangeable.
="lsts lst1">•standardization of visual imagery
="lsts lst1">•in the amphitheatre / on the ="trms">stage / in the Panoptic machine
="lsts lst1">•dis="trms">sociation of touch from sight ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “separation of the senses” and industrial remapping of the body in the nineteenth century
="lsts lst1">•unloosening of the eye from the ="trms">network of referentiality incarnated in tactility ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> fitted for the tasks of “="trms">spectacular” ="trms">consumption
="lsts lst1">•Perception for ="ppl">Benjamin was acutely temporal and kinetic;
="lsts lst1">•a mobile ="trms">consumer of a ceaseless succession of illusory commodity-like Images.
="lsts lst1">•Machines are ="trms">social before being ="trms">technical
="lsts lst1">•desiring machines
="lsts lst1">•The paintings of J-B. Chardin are lodged within these same ="trms">questions of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and perception His still lifes, especially, are a last great ="trms">presentation of the classical object in all its plenitude, before it is sundered irrevocably into exchangeable and[...]