LA CIUDAD EN MOVIMIENTO

miércoles, abril 02, 2003:

C-THEORY says



The Nihilism of War
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~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~


Green screens
& mismatched tongues
tickertape slogans of disinformation
8000 bombs with no bleeding bodies
History will not die at the Tigris and Euphrates

Mesopotamia and the origin of writing
America and the triumph of virtuality
The circle of mythology is complete
A graveyard of American empire
in the desert sands
Time and Space
Earth and Sky
Memory and Disappearance
History will not die at the Tigris and Euphrates


Now we are all citizens of Baghdad

Not so much a fatal "clash of civilizations," but now something much more fateful: a global clash between the hegemonic spirit of the war-machine of American empire and the spirit of peace of a resisting humanity. Like a replay of Picasso's ~Guernica~ where a courageous human, and then artistic, refusal was brought to bear on the sight of fascist warplanes experimenting on a civilian population, the skin of humanity has taken to the streets in protest, all the more admirable for its political impossibility, against the illegal invasion of Iraq. From the Middle East to the cities of North America, from Indonesia to Latin and Central America, from Europe to San
Francisco, a resurgent humanity pushes itself onto the screen of history, speaking always in the name of international law, protesting in the name of global human rights.

Today for those opposed to the war, we are all citizens of Baghdad: all in solidarity with the suffering civilians of Iraq, all opposed to war crimes, all experimental subjects of American power, all waiting to be harvested by the war machine, all threatened with the use of "shock and awe," all positioned by the media as either
"embedded" cheerleaders of the logic of war or disappeared as ethically surplus to the requirements of power.

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rafa // miércoles, abril 02, 2003