matthew goulish : lecture in the shape of a bridge collapsing |
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3.visibility A million filing cabinets blew apart, and sheets of paper filled the streets, all the sheets covered with words, all the words useless. We thought it was a movie, Independence Day, a sequel - the real as an appendage of the fantastic. B: a small mammal with big ears A: Visibility, the fabric of something we understand as reality, emerges through insistence: we watch, and we watch again, and we watch again again. Commerce had been the inevitable, the extrusion of the fantastic upward, but the future is gaining on fantasy, and this is the trerritory where the overtaking occurs, as demonstrated by the following four examples. B: Example #1) Through America's toughest times, the Kit-Kat Klock has brightened our days for 70 years, through the Great Depression, World War II, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, Desert Storm, and several recessions - this battery-operated timepiece in the shape of a black - and - white cat with its tail as a pendulum, has been the source of enjoyment for familiesaround the world for almost 60 years, with its Rolling Eyes, Wagging Tail and Infectious Smile - we thought you might be interested in a historical profile of the Kit-Kat Klock in light of recent events. Example #2) McDonald's delivers 14 trucks, each 45 feet long, full of Quarter Pounders and Chicken McNuggets, to the ruins, free of charge, and issues a press release: "McDonald's is doing what we always do - we are helping our neighbors." Example #3) Within one month The Pentagon spends millions of dollars purchasing publications rights to all the most accurate civilian satellite photographs of the effects of US bombing in Afghanistan, an exercise in "shutter control" which will render the suffering of the enemy invisible. C: Example #4) In the immediate aftermath, television networks cancel a number of programs deemed inappropriate - among these is one about an animated construction worker with talking machines: the BBC's Bob the Builder, a cheerful Children's show with songs. |
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