From 075a3dadf8c5423beb9d0475ec260411d2fce2e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sdbs Terra Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 22:39:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Automatic update, changed: las.quotes.md --- pages/las.quotes.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/pages/las.quotes.md b/pages/las.quotes.md index 7b1cba3..9e2cd3a 100644 --- a/pages/las.quotes.md +++ b/pages/las.quotes.md @@ -224,6 +224,19 @@ Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep a > Cut word lines Cut music lines Smash the control images Smash the control machine Burn the books Kill the priests Kill! Kill! Kill! > - William S. Burroughs - The Soft Machine (1961) +### Electronic Revolution +>The written word is of course a symbol for something and in the case of hieroglyphic language writing like Egyptian it may be a symbol for itself that is a picture of what it represents. This is not true of +an alphabet language like English. The word leg has no pictorial resemblance to a +leg. It refers to the SPOKEN word leg. so we may forget that a written word IS AN +IMAGE and that written words are images in sequence that is to say MOVING +4 +PICTURES. So any hieroglyphic sequence gives us an immediate working defini- +tion for spoken words. Spoken words are verbal units that refer to this pictorial +sequence. And what then is the written word? My basis theory is that the written +word was literally a virus that made spoken word possible. The word has not been +recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the +host.. + ## Dziga Vertov #film Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction.