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> 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
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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.