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Paul Virilio's War and Cinema

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Dual Life of the Propaganda Film

The new role of search lighting spotlighting illuminating all of these techniques that are used for capturing cinema. A different aspect of the fight where you know it's much less about two armies, kind of like meeting in a field right everything becomes subterranean and hidden obfuscated. So this proximity element hand to hand combat versus this voyeuristic thing you're less likely to sympathize with something far away. And if you can't bring yourself to swing that sword then perhaps that person doesn't deserve to die. That even goes back to that idea that I brought up about when we're I forget which discussion it was but talking about carrying out the execution right the executioner versus the person who swing passes

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