Transversal Concatenation

When thinking about this phrase during class this morning I was completely stumped. after thinking about what Caleb then went onto say about in the lecture I slowly began to understand what we were discussing.

There are very few things in this world that exists purely independent and within there own walls. When you break things down the sum of there parts can be traced back to all kinds of things. take a house for example. A house is the end product of many different parties exercising their skills and knowledge. You can break it down into suppliers, Builders, Plumbers, Electricians, Architects, Laborers Etc. and nobody really cares who built what and takes credit for the final product because its just a house and they all got paid. But what happens when the house falls down because of an electrical problem that started a fire that burnt through a wall that was supposed to be made of brick. the blame can be spread over two or three different fields and the boundaries regarding labour are disbursed to reduce fault.

What i am trying to say is everything that happens in life can be categorised, but those walls are only as retardant to other groups as long as someone doesn't mind if parties don't mix. NIKOS PAPASTERGIADIS paper where he talks about post 9/11 and Guantánamo Bay got me thinking about what are the links between politics, art and war and i immediately thought about the media.

Who is the media? obviously the media is the big named papers, and Television news programs but who are their journalists? if everybody who witnessed 9/11 filmed it on their phones do they become journalists? if a solider films something behind the front lines are they a journalist or a soldier with a camera? I think that people can find themselves in situations where there "title" can change momentarily and then change back without any real effort or even understanding of where they belong. in these examples it is the technology that is blurring the lines between these fields and in a sense the role reversal of some of these parties is subverting the media. the media seems to be all powerful when it comes to any story being told. the media is what it is until we become more apart of it than itself.

Luke Turner
October 11, 2010 2:33 PM