From: Christopher Gray <rasputin-AT-teleport.com>
Date: 01 Oct 2005 17:52:02 UTC   (12:52:02 PM in author's locale)
To: Situationist <situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org>,  surrealistinvestigations-AT-yahoogroups.com

notbored-AT-optonline.net">notbored-AT-optonline.net wrote:

I suggest looking at "The San Francisco" project unleashed by the 
post-S.I. group Point Blank in the early 1970s for the 
form/content of 
such an undertaking. They attacked welfare/unemployment centers, 
shopping centers (consumption), mass transit, employment 
(production) 
arenas/areas. 
 

How's this? — 

1) stage surrealist interventions in fron tof publically installed surveillance cameras (esp. operated by the police, Dept of Transportation, etc)

2) do so in tandem with the international anti-surveillance movement, which currently contemplates an international day of actions against video surveillance. Possible dates: sometime in December? January 2006?

 

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Albeit that surveillance is as much the social container becoming real - while I produce, consume and am produced and consumed - I'd prefer an "audience" across the total terrain of  the reified that is now ruled by the capital social relationship: points of production for deification, propertization, and commodification and points for their spectacular consumption. The goal would be to cross-vector all these exposes for greater, more complete, and hopefully uncontrollable & morphogenetic effect. The walk-wait sign, the surveillance camera, etc. are passively accepted like lines, choicelessness, and the banal.  Acceptance of scarcity, reduction of expectation, and tolerance of intrusion are all too slowed down to be noticeable - like that Star Trek wherein one crew member appears a s a buzzing too-fast-for-visibility event and the others seem non-moving to that member. Just like evolution - subjugation can hide behind elongated time while others take place so quickly no one notices there as well.  Exposing both ends of the spectrum as well as "the commonplace" is a good strategy. If only camera acting could transport  de-digitizing virii through the camera lens - or, inspire those databasing faces on the other side to morph their reality out of existence. 

christopher