Awesome work. Between this, the Cybersyn documentary, and your talks about cybernetics on the Pill Pod, you've opened me up to some absolutely gripping material to look into.
You should beware of consuming philosophy and culture just because it interests you. As a follower of Debord I can give two reasons for this: 1. Philosophy conceives of "man" in the abstract. It does not see you but a representation of you. This is the root of its failure - its inability to talk directly to anybody but itself. It's a failure of typography in general. But you are not abstract. You are a man with a time and place. You must never lose sight of this. 2. Culture preserves the unusable ideology of the past while also allowing for the dissemination of false representations of life. The latter is what Debord named 'the spectacle'. Culture destroys common language as it talks, usually, in the language of no one from nowhere. We have become used to this on the internet. People becoming one with the Internet represents the culmination of the neo-liberalist economic ideal going back centuries. Human beings have been accumulated into a mass spectacle where they merely consume. Remember: when culture detaches from the real, that is when it becomes dangerous.You must try to focus on when and where you are.
@@MGSVxBreakpoint Why should I believe you? How do I know that you’ve read Debord? How do I know that your even real? I’ve heard of bots. I better check the likes under your post. But wait- how can I know if those likes are real? I better not post this. I heard that an algorithm is siloing the information I’m exposed to, subtly shaping my desires. And besides, my keystrokes are probably being logged anyway. Wait, I’m not using a keyboard... And what if they don’t like my response? What if they don’t get it? Will that make my beliefs less valid? I guess that if a lot of them like it, it means my thoughts are valid… But that’s wrong. I’m not my likes, am I? But who ARE they? WHO AM I WRITING THIS TO? ANSWER ME! WHY AM I WRITING THIS? WHY CANT I SEE THEM? WHAT’S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SCREEN? WHY CAN’T I SEE THROUGH IT? WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ME?? I WANT OUT. I WANT OUT. I WANT THE TRUTH! I WANT OUT! WHAT IS THE TRUTH? *IS IT ON THE SCREEN? IS THE SCREEN THE TRUTH????*
@@MGSVxBreakpoint at some point i have to agree with you, although there's a certain point that I've not capture into my frame thoughts so far. Consider the Cybersyn documentary for example. Is it informative? Not quite, but as an introductory purposes, Pills made a great work for us to be able to look into that material. Why? I've been thinking after listening his Cybersyn docs podcast, there's an agreement about the irony of military intervention there, even though the economical success of Chile at Aliende's time is merely thin to be brought as a foundation of long-term cybernetics + socialism ideology triumph. The idea behind is quite decent (Virilio and Baudrillard mostly, and for that I've just look his first 20 pages of Information Bomb because it's too much grim), but as you've said we should not take it as granted or added too much salt into the material references like Virilio for example (as i did before). Solid material to reconsider but don't forget add a few of salt for the healthy purposes
Dropping this to be engagement for the UA-cam real-time. Let this green dot show that the content was well-received. It precisely and efficiently fits the specific interest-groups that comprise me. All is well on UA-cam's war screens, the internet yields much satisfaction and educational value.
Absolutely fantastic. Topics which are some of my favorite, presented in the most engaging way possible. Your video editing has really come along. Keep it up, bro.
It has gotten a lot better, which I hope doesn't sound like a brag, it's just that it used to be comically bad. The downside is that it takes a lot longer to do something well than to do something half-assed so the frequency goes down as quality goes up. I'm glad it's not just me who's willing to take that tradeoff, thank you
Have any of his videos actually changed your or anybody's lives? Culture reproduced in the abstract could never accomplish such a task. You and I are just walking around the museums of philosophy, nothing more than consumers in an age of the Baroque. We consume the past at the expense of our own presents.
sobering and absolutely terrifying. well produced as always. your thoughts on this massive information system recently have been very thought-provoking and topical given global currents surrounding the web nowadays.
I *have* to comment on this video as I am uniquely qualified to offer a bit of insight here. First off, I am a student of Baudrillard. Like for real. I adore his work and I've read most of it. It seems as though people don't yet realize the importance of his contributions to discourse on the effects of modernity on the human psyche and the decision-making process. That being said, I fought in a war that was nearly identical to the Gulf War that Did Not Take Place. Digital battlescape. Information dominance. Real-time threat warning. The whole nine yards. It's not that "they never even saw them." Rather, it was that "some of them only saw them after they had killed them ." You *cannot imagine* the horror of being confronted with smeared, blasted apart bodies that only hours before had been audio feeds of human voices and parametrics and on your computer screen. The damage that this sort of unveiling, this dread confrontation with the piercing Real does to your psyche is absolutely life-altering. It's one of those things that is so devastating to one's interior world that when you're experiencing it, you end up thinking to yourself that you were not designed to handle experiences like that. It is so far outside the realm of psychic defenses that evolution has naturally selected for us that it ends up damaging you on a profound, absolutely fundamental level. Furthermore, I served alongside a fellow airman who served in the Gulf War That Did Not Take Place. Same deal. Full digital battlescape. He was without a doubt the single most awful, unpleasant and monstrous human being I have ever met in my life with the exception of exactly one other person and that individual had no-shit brain damage. The extent to which the unresolved trauma of having Ender's Gamed his way into being a killer had completely infiltrated his personality was absolutely tragic. Absolute monster of a human being. Worst person I have ever met in my life. I'm glad that I will likely never see him again. Human beings are not psychically designed for digital warfare. We just aren't. What is missing from The Gulf War Did Not Take Place are the absolutely horrific effects that digital warfare has on the human beings who actually did destroy other human beings via computer screen and only ended up humanizing them after the fact; sometimes intentionally, sometimes incidentally. Service members who push-button kill-chained enemy combatants die by suicide on a daily basis. Sensor operators and certain members of the signals intelligence community, I'm looking at you. Fortunately, there is help. If you or anyone you know struggles with the moral fallout that digital warfare generates, go to TRRHelp.org Thank you. I like this channel. I don't love it, but you provide high-quality content.
Sounds almost like you forgot the military is about killing people before you joined.... I feel for you, this sounds horrific.. I would spend the rest of my days making sure as few young people as possible find themselves in similar situations, although that's probably a lost cause. The propaganda is far too powerful for us to really resist. You have at least made me feel that much better about never wanting to sign up for such things. I'm sure there are bits of good that came from it, but the negatives are out of control. I'm just now becoming a Heli pilot, but was never willing to go down the military path, so it's a far different experience and intention than what I imagine happens for military pilots.... Either way, being up in the sky is at least rewarding in its own way. Just sad to know most of the technology is used to murder innocent people..... I hope studying philosophy can bring you some more joy than these other endeavors!
Hyper-reality means what is 'more real than real'. It denotes something that seems more real because it corresponds more to your concept of reality than what is actually real. If you get all your facts from the TV, for instance, you may be apt to not accept what you see in reality because your map of reality has become warped by information. How that relates to the Gulf War is that soldiers who fought there began to see the TV narrative as the truth of the war... even though they participated in it. Their real experiences and memories were retroactively warped by the hyper-real.
This is interesting, as my recent readings have been about this same phenomenon from another perspective. So here are some thoughts; I hope they reach you. The disciplinary and control regimes, as they operate, attempt to gain absolute knowledge, and thus control. But like the sorcerers apprentice, they also summon forces that exceed their grasp. The same productive systems used to manufacture enemies folds back upon itself as a paranoiac production has resulted in various segments of the info consuming public seeing different narrative streams that appear almost through autopoisis; Qanon was certainly not a desired outcome of the military apparatus. But beyond that, the machines seem to increasingly challenge the enlightenment "man" birthed from the desire for detail as every stable identity or binary implodes upon itself. Bib: Sadie Plant - Ones and Zeros Reza Negarestani - The Labor of the Inhuman Vincent Garton -Leviathan Rots
I love how you included CNN and Wolf Blitzer's grotesque situation room at the end. I've read and engaged with Baudrillard but I've not had any experience with Virilio before, so thanks for the reading list addition!
Last night I came home, and PBS (emphasis on the BS) was doing a memorial piece about Colin Powell, practically drooling over his accomplishments..... Can you guess how much time they spent on him lying to congress and the Iraq war? One whole sentence where he said it was his least proud moment of his career, or something to that effect..... This video is 1000 times better, more interesting, more informative, more entertaining, and simply more truthful than what millions of dollars of funding can come up with in legacy media! Keep it up man! ✌
As usual, so good. I will say for no reason in particular, Marx himself of course eventually noted this dangerous potential for technology to completely capture and mediate our material conditions away from the historical materialist inevitability of being _"...at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind"_ as was initially declared in the manifesto, and instead toward an insulated virtual ontology that cements that potential for the _"common ruin of the contending classes"_ toward the service of perpetuating the callous belligerent machine of capital accumulation solely for its own sake and at quite literally all other costs. _“Once adopted into the production process of capital, the means of labour passes through different metamorphoses, whose culmination is the… automatic system of machinery… set in motion by an automaton, a moving power that moves itself; this automaton consisting of numerous mechanical and intellectual organs, so that the workers themselves are cast merely as its conscious linkages.”_ - “The Fragment on Machines” in The Grundrisse
I dont know who he was/is, but if my footage source was correct then his wife and kids were killed in the Amiriyah Shelter Bombing, where 400 civilians turned to mush when an F-117 dropped a laser guided bomb into an the air shaft of the bomb shelter they were hiding in. The families sued Bush and Cheney for war crimes, but they were dismissed.
Oh this explains a lot about the sort of conversations I was born in the middle of. Thank you! Like the closest I had been informed about this was that one of my middle school substitute teachers was like the gulf war's media coverage was like watching an action movie every night & OMG the winning. But I didn't realize how severely that was. Like this experience obviously influenced the USA "We're #1" mentality after the fall of USSR in the 1990s. Thank you again for this videoessay!
I know this video won't be about Baudrillard, but the title reminded me of something I read about him. Apparently, during the run-up to the Gulf War, a French newspaper contacted him and offered him a job covering the war. He accepted, but gave them a bewildering condition: he would cover the Gulf War but not in Iraq. He would cover it from the TV in his Paris hotel room. Baudrillard believed that the real war would take place within the spectacle; the false reality inside our screens. As we now know, the man was 100% completely correct. The Gulf War never happened.
Nice! I saw the title and assumed it was gonna be a rehash if Rick Rodericks lecture series on the post modern. Much better than I assumed. I would lover piece on Roberto Esposito’s “Immunitas” “Communitas” and or “Bios”
Amazing video as always! I recommend looking at Heidegger’s “Questions regarding modern technology” and Albert Borgmann’s “Focal things and practices” as a potential topic for a future video!
This content is COURAGEOUS and terrifying. Thank for your efforts making these videos. I hope the almighty god, Algorithm, turn its generous side on you.
Wtf is going on? I wanted to enable notifications for this content since I missed and only now saw your new releases since the Cybersyn documentary, but it doesn't allow me to enable them, claiming your channel is "content for children" which does not allow for notifications. Amazing work, btw, both production value and actual content communicated to us is amazing in your videos.
Somehow from this vids I've got an idea about digging on what big tech corporations did for us as their consumer and at the same time they want to keep our trust but not not happy if we ask our right (to repair for example, go check mkbhd's vids on right to repair). Surveillance (if we want to criticize from non-conspiratorial thoughts) is a big deal to rethinking on how far they (big corp tech) can get and what we (as almost impotent consumers at least) can struggle for
The rendering of all beings legible by technical logistics is itself the bomb, not for merely its accidents in the aims of ulterior motives and military logistics, but the re-prioritization itself will syphon all resources towards these ends. If everything is governed by the control apparatus, there are no accidents. Internal combustion engines themselves have harmful byproducts. Imagining this planetary sensing apparatus as having additionally harmful byproducts is itself no accident. They are necessary for its function.
On the other hand, Cybernetics and information didn't exactly yield the kind of results the Pentagon wanted in Afghanistan recently (assuming US Intelligence was acting in good faith). This always comes down to Laplace's fallacy- that the outcome is computable given all the information. It appears to be, until it isn't.
I'm not sure if I agree with speed as the ultimate advantage or tool of warfare, while it is certainly important it has never won a war on it's own the way the simple might of production has decided almost every war. In most of my study in this area I have tended to land on stuff like economics, doctrine, iniative, discipline, bravery, communication, and intelligence as being decisive factors instead that most generals and doctrine cite. And the way I see it is mostly those last two factors that have lead to the modern battlefield, as warfare became mechanized the human strengths became less important and winning battles became extremely costly and might against might couldn't do the trick against machines. The only way to counter this was the decentralization of the army in order to enable ever smaller units to operate on their own and be able to out maneuver and out think machines, this was enabled by communication technologies like the radio and increasingly intelligence which let you not get outmaneuvered yourself. You can see modern warfare growing directly out of what the Allies did during WWII with the importance placed on intelligence by them during a war giving an often decisive edge and the focus on highly reactive forms of organization (like RAF command) that could quickly pass around information to enable the most economical use of force. The CIA literally grew out of the laughable American Special Services during the war and the US had clearly learned it's lesson, the decisive advantages communication and intelligence showed themselves to have in the war would become the blueprint for all modern armies. The warfare we see now is therefore not a result of speed but a result of industrialized warfare placing a central focus on something that used to be barely a thing, most countries didn't even have an intelligence network until the late 19th century. In warfare just being able to support an army used to be a struggle on it's own so intelligence was rarely ever thought about but with industrial production everyone can create armies of millions so now this is where the advantage lies. I don't really disagree with any of the rest of the video but I do feel like this point is not really congruent with the history of war. We arrive at the same conclusion so that is fine but I think it is actually very important for us leftists to seriously study war including the theory of people who we fundamentally disagree with and to take this seriously because in my humble opinion war is the root of all of this.
15:30 all that would be needed today is a few zingers and rhetoric; graphics, disclosure of action plans and Barney-level walkthroughs no longer necessary.
Virilio is an interesting dude, I finished his quick little “politics of the very worst” the other day, and grabbed Steve redhead’s “virilio reader.” The next deep dive after all these Deleuze and Guattari texts, and their subsequent interviews and compilation texts, and then guattari’s papers on anti-odeipus
Phone posted before I could finish but...that rabbit hole is taking too much mental energy, yet virilio is very clear and concise, and also very interesting to read. Highly recommend the guy; especially the notion that the ship invented the ship wreck, etc...the accident as concept is fascinating.
Yo this is crazy. I'm a reporter and got an opportunity to see soldiers training on AR facilities -- fucking nuts what they can do now. They were literally plopped down in a generation of real maps of Poland at the second they were training. There were humvee set ups and also fools with gaming controllers, at least two dozen in this long room. Felt so surreal, and this was two years ago.
Damn, this hits hard, especially now with the Ukraine-Russia war we're seeing now. What we're seeing on social media, from live drone bombings to the aftermath of missile salvos, its crazy what we're gazing upon daily. At the end of the day, its just more content for the public.
extremely interesting topic although could a war that has physical repercussions and results to physical death therefore outside the cyberspace be truly considered as cyberwar?
thats the whole point human casualties have nothing to do with the war thats why schools dont teach the atrocity america has commited its not apart of the gulf war.
Your video editing skills are great. However, I had to stop after five minutes, since I did not get it at all. Usually I am a big fan of your videos, but this one was all over the place and I could not follow the reasoning.
Getting better and better... cheers bro.
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Awesome work. Between this, the Cybersyn documentary, and your talks about cybernetics on the Pill Pod, you've opened me up to some absolutely gripping material to look into.
You should beware of consuming philosophy and culture just because it interests you. As a follower of Debord I can give two reasons for this:
1. Philosophy conceives of "man" in the abstract. It does not see you but a representation of you. This is the root of its failure - its inability to talk directly to anybody but itself. It's a failure of typography in general. But you are not abstract. You are a man with a time and place. You must never lose sight of this.
2. Culture preserves the unusable ideology of the past while also allowing for the dissemination of false representations of life. The latter is what Debord named 'the spectacle'. Culture destroys common language as it talks, usually, in the language of no one from nowhere. We have become used to this on the internet. People becoming one with the Internet represents the culmination of the neo-liberalist economic ideal going back centuries. Human beings have been accumulated into a mass spectacle where they merely consume.
Remember: when culture detaches from the real, that is when it becomes dangerous.You must try to focus on when and where you are.
@@MGSVxBreakpoint Why should I believe you? How do I know that you’ve read Debord? How do I know that your even real? I’ve heard of bots. I better check the likes under your post. But wait- how can I know if those likes are real? I better not post this. I heard that an algorithm is siloing the information I’m exposed to, subtly shaping my desires. And besides, my keystrokes are probably being logged anyway. Wait, I’m not using a keyboard... And what if they don’t like my response? What if they don’t get it? Will that make my beliefs less valid? I guess that if a lot of them like it, it means my thoughts are valid… But that’s wrong. I’m not my likes, am I? But who ARE they? WHO AM I WRITING THIS TO? ANSWER ME! WHY AM I WRITING THIS? WHY CANT I SEE THEM? WHAT’S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SCREEN? WHY CAN’T I SEE THROUGH IT? WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ME?? I WANT OUT. I WANT OUT. I WANT THE TRUTH! I WANT OUT! WHAT IS THE TRUTH? *IS IT ON THE SCREEN? IS THE SCREEN THE TRUTH????*
@@MGSVxBreakpoint at some point i have to agree with you, although there's a certain point that I've not capture into my frame thoughts so far. Consider the Cybersyn documentary for example. Is it informative? Not quite, but as an introductory purposes, Pills made a great work for us to be able to look into that material. Why? I've been thinking after listening his Cybersyn docs podcast, there's an agreement about the irony of military intervention there, even though the economical success of Chile at Aliende's time is merely thin to be brought as a foundation of long-term cybernetics + socialism ideology triumph. The idea behind is quite decent (Virilio and Baudrillard mostly, and for that I've just look his first 20 pages of Information Bomb because it's too much grim), but as you've said we should not take it as granted or added too much salt into the material references like Virilio for example (as i did before). Solid material to reconsider but don't forget add a few of salt for the healthy purposes
@@dethkon Find Jesus
@@MGSVxBreakpoint I’d rather speak to the CEO than management, if you can get with that.
After the recent conflicts this video is more relevant than ever
Dropping this to be engagement for the UA-cam real-time. Let this green dot show that the content was well-received. It precisely and efficiently fits the specific interest-groups that comprise me. All is well on UA-cam's war screens, the internet yields much satisfaction and educational value.
As others have said, your videos just keep getting better. This one made me feel sick with dread.
Absolutely fantastic. Topics which are some of my favorite, presented in the most engaging way possible. Your video editing has really come along. Keep it up, bro.
It has gotten a lot better, which I hope doesn't sound like a brag, it's just that it used to be comically bad. The downside is that it takes a lot longer to do something well than to do something half-assed so the frequency goes down as quality goes up. I'm glad it's not just me who's willing to take that tradeoff, thank you
Pills hits me like no other. Thank you. Gonna share this with anyone I care about.
Have any of his videos actually changed your or anybody's lives? Culture reproduced in the abstract could never accomplish such a task. You and I are just walking around the museums of philosophy, nothing more than consumers in an age of the Baroque. We consume the past at the expense of our own presents.
@@MGSVxBreakpoint No material revolt occurred without discourses shaping it.
@@gannonapoliticalteen9694 It‘s the relevance of internet discourse that increasingly concerns me
This came out at the same time I finished teaching a class on cybersemiotics. Good video-essay as always.
sobering and absolutely terrifying. well produced as always. your thoughts on this massive information system recently have been very thought-provoking and topical given global currents surrounding the web nowadays.
"Never before had war been waged with the screen itself." - Eyewar
I *have* to comment on this video as I am uniquely qualified to offer a bit of insight here.
First off, I am a student of Baudrillard. Like for real. I adore his work and I've read most of it. It seems as though people don't yet realize the importance of his contributions to discourse on the effects of modernity on the human psyche and the decision-making process.
That being said, I fought in a war that was nearly identical to the Gulf War that Did Not Take Place. Digital battlescape. Information dominance. Real-time threat warning. The whole nine yards.
It's not that "they never even saw them." Rather, it was that "some of them only saw them after they had killed them ."
You *cannot imagine* the horror of being confronted with smeared, blasted apart bodies that only hours before had been audio feeds of human voices and parametrics and on your computer screen. The damage that this sort of unveiling, this dread confrontation with the piercing Real does to your psyche is absolutely life-altering. It's one of those things that is so devastating to one's interior world that when you're experiencing it, you end up thinking to yourself that you were not designed to handle experiences like that. It is so far outside the realm of psychic defenses that evolution has naturally selected for us that it ends up damaging you on a profound, absolutely fundamental level.
Furthermore, I served alongside a fellow airman who served in the Gulf War That Did Not Take Place. Same deal. Full digital battlescape. He was without a doubt the single most awful, unpleasant and monstrous human being I have ever met in my life with the exception of exactly one other person and that individual had no-shit brain damage. The extent to which the unresolved trauma of having Ender's Gamed his way into being a killer had completely infiltrated his personality was absolutely tragic. Absolute monster of a human being. Worst person I have ever met in my life. I'm glad that I will likely never see him again.
Human beings are not psychically designed for digital warfare. We just aren't. What is missing from The Gulf War Did Not Take Place are the absolutely horrific effects that digital warfare has on the human beings who actually did destroy other human beings via computer screen and only ended up humanizing them after the fact; sometimes intentionally, sometimes incidentally. Service members who push-button kill-chained enemy combatants die by suicide on a daily basis. Sensor operators and certain members of the signals intelligence community, I'm looking at you.
Fortunately, there is help. If you or anyone you know struggles with the moral fallout that digital warfare generates, go to TRRHelp.org Thank you. I like this channel. I don't love it, but you provide high-quality content.
Sounds almost like you forgot the military is about killing people before you joined....
I feel for you, this sounds horrific..
I would spend the rest of my days making sure as few young people as possible find themselves in similar situations, although that's probably a lost cause.
The propaganda is far too powerful for us to really resist.
You have at least made me feel that much better about never wanting to sign up for such things.
I'm sure there are bits of good that came from it, but the negatives are out of control.
I'm just now becoming a Heli pilot, but was never willing to go down the military path, so it's a far different experience and intention than what I imagine happens for military pilots....
Either way, being up in the sky is at least rewarding in its own way.
Just sad to know most of the technology is used to murder innocent people.....
I hope studying philosophy can bring you some more joy than these other endeavors!
Thank you for your service sir. If I may what are your thoughts on todays military in the US?
You have now convinced me to pick up Paul Virilio. Awesome video, your video editing has been wild lately. Stellar script writing, too.
Open Sky is where I would start
@@splatterjim8202 Thanks!
just wanted to thank you for your work
the idea of hyperreality is scary but fascinating, can't wait to see this video and one day read Baudrillard's book
Hyper-reality means what is 'more real than real'. It denotes something that seems more real because it corresponds more to your concept of reality than what is actually real. If you get all your facts from the TV, for instance, you may be apt to not accept what you see in reality because your map of reality has become warped by information.
How that relates to the Gulf War is that soldiers who fought there began to see the TV narrative as the truth of the war... even though they participated in it. Their real experiences and memories were retroactively warped by the hyper-real.
I can't believe this channel doesn't have more subscribers. The quality is so high consistently.
This is really, really good. Your videos keep getting better and better, where will this end?
see 2:39
My final thought, "holy shit".
great video, your work quality has skyrocketed, congratulations
you are reaching the next level
You are officially the first UA-camr I've ever supported via the monthly membership thing.
Damn. This is my first introduction to this kind of content.
Thank you, Plastic Pill!
I may not be smart but when I come here I always feel excited to learn something new!
This is interesting, as my recent readings have been about this same phenomenon from another perspective. So here are some thoughts; I hope they reach you.
The disciplinary and control regimes, as they operate, attempt to gain absolute knowledge, and thus control. But like the sorcerers apprentice, they also summon forces that exceed their grasp. The same productive systems used to manufacture enemies folds back upon itself as a paranoiac production has resulted in various segments of the info consuming public seeing different narrative streams that appear almost through autopoisis; Qanon was certainly not a desired outcome of the military apparatus. But beyond that, the machines seem to increasingly challenge the enlightenment "man" birthed from the desire for detail as every stable identity or binary implodes upon itself.
Bib:
Sadie Plant - Ones and Zeros
Reza Negarestani - The Labor of the Inhuman
Vincent Garton -Leviathan Rots
Rarely I want to share videos right away, all of Pills videos demand for me to share them. Great work as always.
istg your content keeps getting better and better
Perfect speech speed, x2 is so smoothly quick but not overwhelming, its a consistent speed throughout
I love how you included CNN and Wolf Blitzer's grotesque situation room at the end.
I've read and engaged with Baudrillard but I've not had any experience with Virilio before, so thanks for the reading list addition!
This is good information harvested from the information swamp
Last night I came home, and PBS (emphasis on the BS) was doing a memorial piece about Colin Powell, practically drooling over his accomplishments.....
Can you guess how much time they spent on him lying to congress and the Iraq war?
One whole sentence where he said it was his least proud moment of his career, or something to that effect.....
This video is 1000 times better, more interesting, more informative, more entertaining, and simply more truthful than what millions of dollars of funding can come up with in legacy media!
Keep it up man! ✌
Terrifying and thought-provoking. Thank you pills, you’re one of a kind and I really enjoy your great, relevant content.
This stuff is amazing and the graphics are insanely good
Also: The way you plugged the Patreon Content in the end is also very well done
I love how the adverts just become part of your content. It totally disempowers the advertiser.
Shhhhhh......🤫
So excited for all your projects but especially this one
I am addicted to Plastic Pills!!!
Great video! Wish I could have watched it in real time tho
As usual, so good.
I will say for no reason in particular, Marx himself of course eventually noted this dangerous potential for technology to completely capture and mediate our material conditions away from the historical materialist inevitability of being _"...at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind"_ as was initially declared in the manifesto, and instead toward an insulated virtual ontology that cements that potential for the _"common ruin of the contending classes"_ toward the service of perpetuating the callous belligerent machine of capital accumulation solely for its own sake and at quite literally all other costs.
_“Once adopted into the production process of capital, the means of labour passes through different metamorphoses, whose culmination is the… automatic system of machinery… set in motion by an automaton, a moving power that moves itself; this automaton consisting of numerous mechanical and intellectual organs, so that the workers themselves are cast merely as its conscious linkages.”_ - “The Fragment on Machines” in The Grundrisse
Is there any record of who the man captured by camera speaking of losing his wife and children is?
I dont know who he was/is, but if my footage source was correct then his wife and kids were killed in the Amiriyah Shelter Bombing, where 400 civilians turned to mush when an F-117 dropped a laser guided bomb into an the air shaft of the bomb shelter they were hiding in. The families sued Bush and Cheney for war crimes, but they were dismissed.
Pax Romana had gladiatorial matches.
Pax Americana has drone strikes.
Amazing job Pills!
Great video, does anybody know the name of the background track starting at 14:32?
It's called "final boss" by Myuu.
Yes yes yes! Haha thanks for another awesome doc. GUYS we need to keep an eye on pills he is definitely on a list after these two videos 🤣
haha the captions on the news programs are so good
this is a phenomenal video. great work!
Love the edit 💛 and the video ofc but very cool edit
Well, that was terrifying
Great work! You keep delivering quality content to this channel. As always, thanks!
Oh this explains a lot about the sort of conversations I was born in the middle of. Thank you!
Like the closest I had been informed about this was that one of my middle school substitute teachers was like the gulf war's media coverage was like watching an action movie every night & OMG the winning. But I didn't realize how severely that was.
Like this experience obviously influenced the USA "We're #1" mentality after the fall of USSR in the 1990s. Thank you again for this videoessay!
I know this video won't be about Baudrillard, but the title reminded me of something I read about him. Apparently, during the run-up to the Gulf War, a French newspaper contacted him and offered him a job covering the war. He accepted, but gave them a bewildering condition: he would cover the Gulf War but not in Iraq. He would cover it from the TV in his Paris hotel room. Baudrillard believed that the real war would take place within the spectacle; the false reality inside our screens.
As we now know, the man was 100% completely correct. The Gulf War never happened.
I mean, he specifically referenced the essay collection that resulted from that coverage, and even named the video after it...
Go back to binge watching Jordan Peterson self-help videos.
@@derekanderson706 lmao fr bro doesent know baudrillards magnum opus
bro thats the whole point lmao
another great piece. thank you
As someone who teaches that stuff at Uni: Great work!
Amazing content Pills, thanks for this and imma go read a lot on this stuff
Thank you for using such definitive language with my computer...i hope it learns something
This is some great quality stuff
Nice! I saw the title and assumed it was gonna be a rehash if Rick Rodericks lecture series on the post modern. Much better than I assumed. I would lover piece on Roberto Esposito’s “Immunitas” “Communitas” and or “Bios”
We need to protect this man at all costs
best video of this channel
You are only gettin better at this.
this video is really well made! glad to see the channel getting better and better
Philosophers RISE UP
Amazing video as always! I recommend looking at Heidegger’s “Questions regarding modern technology” and Albert Borgmann’s “Focal things and practices” as a potential topic for a future video!
This content is COURAGEOUS and terrifying. Thank for your efforts making these videos. I hope the almighty god, Algorithm, turn its generous side on you.
Wtf is going on? I wanted to enable notifications for this content since I missed and only now saw your new releases since the Cybersyn documentary, but it doesn't allow me to enable them, claiming your channel is "content for children" which does not allow for notifications.
Amazing work, btw, both production value and actual content communicated to us is amazing in your videos.
excellent content as always
Ideally, I'd like this channel's content to make COMPLETE SENSE while viewed under the influence of pills.
Somehow from this vids I've got an idea about digging on what big tech corporations did for us as their consumer and at the same time they want to keep our trust but not not happy if we ask our right (to repair for example, go check mkbhd's vids on right to repair). Surveillance (if we want to criticize from non-conspiratorial thoughts) is a big deal to rethinking on how far they (big corp tech) can get and what we (as almost impotent consumers at least) can struggle for
Thank u pillz, and hi again!
in love with your work, keep it up mate!
You're getting better at this, thank you for being dynamic and ever-evolving.
The human individual is crumbling away beneath its dividual informatic double, in the same way the territory crumbled away beneath Boudrillard's map.
The rendering of all beings legible by technical logistics is itself the bomb, not for merely its accidents in the aims of ulterior motives and military logistics, but the re-prioritization itself will syphon all resources towards these ends.
If everything is governed by the control apparatus, there are no accidents. Internal combustion engines themselves have harmful byproducts. Imagining this planetary sensing apparatus as having additionally harmful byproducts is itself no accident. They are necessary for its function.
On the other hand, Cybernetics and information didn't exactly yield the kind of results the Pentagon wanted in Afghanistan recently (assuming US Intelligence was acting in good faith). This always comes down to Laplace's fallacy- that the outcome is computable given all the information. It appears to be, until it isn't.
I'm not sure if I agree with speed as the ultimate advantage or tool of warfare, while it is certainly important it has never won a war on it's own the way the simple might of production has decided almost every war. In most of my study in this area I have tended to land on stuff like economics, doctrine, iniative, discipline, bravery, communication, and intelligence as being decisive factors instead that most generals and doctrine cite. And the way I see it is mostly those last two factors that have lead to the modern battlefield, as warfare became mechanized the human strengths became less important and winning battles became extremely costly and might against might couldn't do the trick against machines. The only way to counter this was the decentralization of the army in order to enable ever smaller units to operate on their own and be able to out maneuver and out think machines, this was enabled by communication technologies like the radio and increasingly intelligence which let you not get outmaneuvered yourself. You can see modern warfare growing directly out of what the Allies did during WWII with the importance placed on intelligence by them during a war giving an often decisive edge and the focus on highly reactive forms of organization (like RAF command) that could quickly pass around information to enable the most economical use of force. The CIA literally grew out of the laughable American Special Services during the war and the US had clearly learned it's lesson, the decisive advantages communication and intelligence showed themselves to have in the war would become the blueprint for all modern armies. The warfare we see now is therefore not a result of speed but a result of industrialized warfare placing a central focus on something that used to be barely a thing, most countries didn't even have an intelligence network until the late 19th century. In warfare just being able to support an army used to be a struggle on it's own so intelligence was rarely ever thought about but with industrial production everyone can create armies of millions so now this is where the advantage lies.
I don't really disagree with any of the rest of the video but I do feel like this point is not really congruent with the history of war. We arrive at the same conclusion so that is fine but I think it is actually very important for us leftists to seriously study war including the theory of people who we fundamentally disagree with and to take this seriously because in my humble opinion war is the root of all of this.
15:30 all that would be needed today is a few zingers and rhetoric; graphics, disclosure of action plans and Barney-level walkthroughs no longer necessary.
What is that song at the end with Wolf Blitzer?
Brilliant video! Vivid, concise call mom open ended and appropriately disturbing.
Virilio is an interesting dude, I finished his quick little “politics of the very worst” the other day, and grabbed Steve redhead’s “virilio reader.” The next deep dive after all these Deleuze and Guattari texts, and their subsequent interviews and compilation texts, and then guattari’s papers on anti-odeipus
Phone posted before I could finish but...that rabbit hole is taking too much mental energy, yet virilio is very clear and concise, and also very interesting to read. Highly recommend the guy; especially the notion that the ship invented the ship wreck, etc...the accident as concept is fascinating.
Wow sobering! Very well done
Good stuff broo
Perfect!
Glorious Art!
This video is awesome
Yo this is crazy. I'm a reporter and got an opportunity to see soldiers training on AR facilities -- fucking nuts what they can do now. They were literally plopped down in a generation of real maps of Poland at the second they were training. There were humvee set ups and also fools with gaming controllers, at least two dozen in this long room. Felt so surreal, and this was two years ago.
Not to mention the AR tank teams.
"Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainers"
@@enmac500 Nintendo soldiers they were called in the Gulf. Those people forget sometimes they ever WENT to war.
relevant video
It the left side of the plastic pill was a little more orange, it would look like a 70mg Vyvanse
My number one takeaway is that I am really annoyed by Wolf Blitzer.
Ciao PlasticPills, fan form Italy here. Since I'm a newbie which books do you think are fundamental in the spectrum of cybernetics and politics?
Damn, this hits hard, especially now with the Ukraine-Russia war we're seeing now. What we're seeing on social media, from live drone bombings to the aftermath of missile salvos, its crazy what we're gazing upon daily. At the end of the day, its just more content for the public.
Awesome!
Amazing!
got dang my guy
My boy Virilio!
The funny thing is even though we (military) can see everything through drones and satellites, we are still there. We will always be there.
Watching this while Ukraine/Russia happening really hits different
that is its own video topic
Roads were developed for military logistics too. Thanks Rome.
Concepts and theory are functional inventions capable of accidents too
Well, that was the biggest black pill in a while. Red triangles unite!
extremely interesting topic although could a war that has physical repercussions and results to physical death therefore outside the cyberspace be truly considered as cyberwar?
thats the whole point human casualties have nothing to do with the war thats why schools dont teach the atrocity america has commited its not apart of the gulf war.
Please make more videos like this, not podcasts.
Your video editing skills are great. However, I had to stop after five minutes, since I did not get it at all. Usually I am a big fan of your videos, but this one was all over the place and I could not follow the reasoning.
Reality seems to resemble Metal Gear Solid more and more