- Guy Debord Thesis 167, Society of the Spectacle
These phones (and/or screens) that were using to access this specific forum thatβs themed about critiquing identity politics from a Marxist perspective are so convenient.
Convenient for alienation, not connection.
Convenient to perpetuate the continuously adapting status quo.
Convenient screens which are conveniently connected laterally to one another (and guided from the top-down) by the internet.
The internet has transformed throughout the last twenty five years from a great liberator for creative expression to a perfect tool for diffuse totalitarian controlβexecuted with a lateral fashion while propagated from the top down.
Diffuse and totalitarianβisnβt that paradoxical?
No, the two are integrated and dependent of one another.
Punks, nerds, geeks, cheerleaders, ASB yuppies, jocks and the village idiot.
If you thought the separation of cliques within your high school was one day going to be a βthing of the past.β
Well youβll eventually realize after high school that there is Separation:
within your workplace, within your trade school, within your college, within your community, within the Thanksgiving dining table, within yourself.
Petty and trivial drama everywhere!
Petty and trivial small talk everywhere.
Youβll find your own within those social groups as you gravitate to people with likeminded mindsets and beliefs.
The internet does this for youβstratifies you onto a digitalized corner where your attention would be most focused.
We will help you find your corner.
The most commoditized, most profitable, most separated corner.
We are United throughout our own separationβviewing each otherβs Spectacle using the lens of the individual context of our own.
We are United without the context that makes us human.
Below is a message publicly posted to the MAPS-L list by the American Geographical Society Library.
Looks like some cool photos that they would love help identifying.
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Can you help us identify where these photos are from? https://www.flickr.com/photos/agslibrary/sets/72157643747255184/ There are 45 photos all together. Here are some specific photos with identifiable features: A castle or fort: https://www.flickr.com/photos/agslibrary/13725612093/in/set-72157643747255184 City on coast: https://www.flickr.com/photos/agslibrary/13725974764/in/set-72157643747255184 Rock outcrop on beach: https://www.flickr.com/photos/agslibrary/13725610173/in/set-72157643747255184 Huts: https://www.flickr.com/photos/agslibrary/13725610793/in/set-72157643747255184 Boat: https://www.flickr.com/photos/agslibrary/13725973504/in/set-72157643747255184 These are round pictures - scanned from the negatives. Kodak produced these (we believe) in the late 1880's and they weren't long lived so we're assuming the photos are from that period. Any help you can give is greatly appreciated as we attempt to identify location and eventually photographer (which of our collections this came from).
No comment is too obvious - any help you can give is great! Thanks!
I'm Colombian, I've lived all of my life here, I'm going to college here, I was born here and I know my country with a little bit more detail than the average person. Yesterday I had the disgrace of watching Amy Schumer's: Snatched. Snatched takes place in Ecuador but mostly in Colombia, and while watching it I was distracted from the atrocious writing, acting and directing, by some details that the movie used as a guide to move the plot forward. Geography.
Amy Schumer and her mother need to go to (my hometown) BogotΓ‘ after crossing the north-east border of Ecuador towards the south of Colombia. And well meaningless stuff happens and they get there, but the point is here. Amy and her Mother crossed through the Amazon rainforest after fleeing Ecuador and they were traversing it, WALKING, attempting to arrive to BogotΓ‘ which the movie treated like it was passing some mountain.
Fun fact: BogotΓ‘ is like 800 km from the south border with Ecuador and it is literally impossible to get there by foot or well in the case of this movie, by a fucking nest attached to a rope. It is ungodly far away. And when they get there, BogotΓ‘ looks like if an stereotypical inmigrant neighborhood in America became an small, humid, hot city, which couldn't be more distorted from reality.
BogotΓ‘ has nearly 9 million inhabitants, and is very very cold (well not that cold but Colombia in general is warm so yeah BogotΓ‘ breaks that line). The point is, I've seen this A LOT, in a lot of different movies not only by the usual: the entirety of latin america is yellow and jungle-ish but also like when in XMen they show a mountain range in a place on Argentina that literally is at sea level.
I wanted to know if anyone from any other part of the world has seen this, and in which movie. I will really like to know if this stereotypical vision applies to other region. :)
