Justyna Zduńczyk, Wrocław, Poland.

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn’t have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending.

J.B.

‘Truth’ is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. ‘Truth’ is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A ‘regime’ of truth.

M.F.

Like Stories of Old: Though we have some freedom in our spatial dimensions, we are bound by just one temporal dimension, leaving us utterly at the mercy of time. It is therefore understandable that we have a natural desire to break free.

Media included:
About Time; Ad Astra; Arrival; Avengers: Endgame; Back to the Future; Batman Begins; Dark; Devs; Edge of Tomorrow; First Man; Groundhog Day; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Her; Hot Tub Time Machine; Inception; Interstellar; Into the Wild; It’s a Wonderful Life; Knight of Cups; La Jetée; Looper; Man of Steel; Moonlight; Mr. Nobody; Outer Wilds; Palm Springs; Primer; Source Code; Shame; Sunshine; Tenet; Terminator 1 & 2 & Dark Fate; Terra Nova; The Butterfly Effect; The Dark Knight Rises; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; The Social Network; The Tree of Life; Twelve Monkeys; X-Men First Class & Days of Future Past; Zerkalo.

It is no longer enough to automate information flows about us; the goal now is to automate us.

S.Z.

Sibewest + Phelian + Burial + aLone.

Personal information is increasingly used to enforce standards of behavior. Information processing is developing, therefore, into an essential element of long-term strategies of manipulation intended to mold and adjust individual conduct.

S.Z.

lynchobite + KOSIKK + elele + Space Alpe.

The first great break-through—or, rather, breakdown—of society’s nudity/lewdity guilt-by-association was the now-famous Marilyn Monroe calendar.

Marilyn’s respectability when she died was based principally upon her economic status, which is, in the final analysis, the only type our society really respects.

L.B.