Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005)

20h30, 04 February 2008

A scanner darkly (2006)

20h30, 28 January 2008

Secret sunshine (2007)

20h30, 21 January 2008

Community and society

"Community" should be understood to be the communal living of people on the basis of a common religion, or a shared idea. Consequently, community is based on mutual agreement. Society, however, is primarily about mutual oppositions and their articulation. Divided societies crave the restoration of their old close-knit communities. Something similar applies to culture and civilization. "Culture" is on the level of "community" and "civilization" on that of "society".


Antisocial scenarios by Eric Bolle.
http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/node/text/.xslt/nodenr-69991

after all love is the answer

"People today seem unable to understand love as a political concept, but a concept of love is just what we need to grasp the constituent power of the multitude. The modern concept of love is almost exclusively limited to the bourgeois couple and the claustrophobic confines of the nuclear family. Love has become a strictly private affair. We need a more generous and more unrestrained concept of love."

in Hardt, Michael and Negri, Antonio. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Pag. 351. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 2005

Ex Drummer 2007

20h30, 7 January 2008

network topologies and control

In the introduction of his book, Galloway makes an analogy between historical periods, machines and network topologies. Galloway distinguish three computer network topologies:

"A centralized network consists of a single central power point (a host), from which are attached radial nodes. The central point is connected to all of the satellite nodes, which are themselves connected only to the central host. A decentralized network, on the other hand, has multiple central hosts, each with its own set of satellite nodes. A satellite node may have connectivity with one or more hosts, but not with other nodes. Communication generally travels unidirectionally within both centralized and decentralized networks: from the central trunks to radial leaves."
In distributed networks "Each point [...] is neither a central hub nor a satellite node - there are neither trunks nor leaves. "The network contains nothing but "intelligent end-point systems that are self-determinitic, allowing each end-point system to communicate with any host it chooses.""

Citing Deleuze, the author compares these topologies to types of machines and forms of control used by sovereign, disciplinary and control societies. "The old sovereign societies worked with simple machines, levers, pulleys, clock; but recent disciplinary societies were equipped with thermodynamic machines...; control societies function with a third generation of machines, with information technology and computers."

Galloway, Alexander R. Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization. Pag. 11, The MIT Press, 2004

Oasis (2002)

20h30, 7 January 2008