Vocalities: AK-47 as Cryptogram

Tuesday, 14 December 2010

AK-47 as Cryptogram

In application of further psycho-political meanderings, ala Avital Ronell's Support Our Tropes (1992), I was reminded of two clips involving the Washington D.C. based, underground show-biz provocateur, Ian Svenonius. In the clip above, Svenonius outlines the technology gap between the AK-47 assault rifle as mythopoeic symbol of revolution, and the brutalist psychogeographic disconnect which tactical smart-missiles provide.

Below is a segment of an interview with Genesis Breyer P.Orridge on Svenonius' talk show, Soft Focus. Although spanning variant topics, in this clip P.Orridge highlights the crypto-symbolic graphic translation of the AK-47, reifying its potency as mythopoeic talisman, as manifestation of the iconic Eye of Horus - God of the Sky, God of War.

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lina14 December 2010 at 17:29
I LOVE SO MUCH WEIRD WAR !!!!
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Reading List 2012-2013

1) Mladen Dolar, "The Metaphysics of the Voice" from A Voice and Nothing More

2) Lacan, "The resonances of the Time of the Subject in Psychoanalytic Technique", Part III of "The Function and Field of Speech and Language" in Ecrits

3) Jacques Derrida, "The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing" from Of Grammatology

4) Roland Barthes, "The Grain of the Voice"

5) Luce Irigaray, "The Dialogues" and "Plato's Hysteria" in Speculum: of the Other Woman

6) Kaja SIlverman, "Disembodying the Female Voice: Irigaray, Experimental Feminist Cinema, and Femininity" from The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema

7) Sherry Turkle, "The Flight From Conversation" (New York Times article) and Franco Berardi, "Info-Labor and 'Precarization" from Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation

8) Mikhail Yampolsky, "The Voice Devoured: Artaud and Borges on Dubbing"

9) Professor Barker, "Barker Speaks" and William Burroughs, "Cross the Wounded Galaxies"

10) Avital Ronell, "The Deaf" in The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia and Electric Speech

11) Michel Chion, "Raising the Voice" and "The Voice that Seeks a Body" from The Voice in Cinema

12) Freya Jarman-Ivens, "'I Feel A Song Coming On': Vocal Identification and Modern Subjectivity"

13) Susan McClary, "This is not a Story My People Tell: Musical Time and Space According to Laurie Anderson"

14) Ian Penman, "The Shattered Glass: Notes on Bryan Ferry" from Angela McRobbie ed, Zoot Suits and Secondhand Dresses: An Anthology of Fashion and Music

15) Kodwo Eshun, "Inner Spatializing the Song" and "Programming Rhythmatic Frequencies" from More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction

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