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First I will apologize for the vagueness of my notes, but not having read the book there were a lot of concepts that were a bit vague and abstract. I will mostly write down the thoughts and questions that rose from the information I was able to gather. | First I will apologize for the vagueness of my notes, but not having read the book there were a lot of concepts that were a bit vague and abstract. I will mostly write down the thoughts and questions that rose from the information I was able to gather. | ||
According to Matthew Fuller, the opposed relationship between natural and formalised language provides the opportunity for evil to arise. Media ambiguity and indeterminacy provide the perfect conditions to power maintenance. --> | According to Matthew Fuller, the opposed relationship between natural and formalised language provides the opportunity for evil to arise. Media ambiguity and indeterminacy provide the perfect conditions to power maintenance. Grey media are these ubiquitous objects that are so now deeply intertwined with our daily life that we don't question anymore what part they play in mantaining and granting power. Their vagueness and ambiguity can be compared to that of sophistry, by not questioning why, but rather how to ("How to win an argument?" - Schopenhauer), making up for one big strategy instead of a desinterested and constant search for the truth. | ||
Objects are never created in isolation. Being a part of a certain system - in this case, capitalism - and being their means of production controlled by the dominant class, one can guess they help sustain the economic infrastructure by embodying the dominant ideologies, not in an animistic sense - as someone pointed out - but in so much as they are systemically informed and therefore contain in themselves the cunning and ambiguous strategies Fuller associates with grey media.--> | |||