{"id":2830,"date":"2019-02-18T07:56:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T15:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2019-02-18T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T15:56:40","slug":"the-viewer-and-the-viewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"The Viewer and The Viewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"h-cite response p-quotation-of \">\n<header>\n<span class=\"svg-icon svg-quote\" aria-label=\"Quote\" title=\"Quote\" style=\"display: inline-block; max-height: 1rem; margin-right: 0.5rem\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\"><path d=\"M512 80v128c0 137.018-63.772 236.324-193.827 271.172-15.225 4.08-30.173-7.437-30.173-23.199v-33.895c0-10.057 6.228-19.133 15.687-22.55C369.684 375.688 408 330.054 408 256h-72c-26.51 0-48-21.49-48-48V80c0-26.51 21.49-48 48-48h128c26.51 0 48 21.49 48 48zM176 32H48C21.49 32 0 53.49 0 80v128c0 26.51 21.49 48 48 48h72c0 74.054-38.316 119.688-104.313 143.528C6.228 402.945 0 412.021 0 422.078v33.895c0 15.762 14.948 27.279 30.173 23.199C160.228 444.324 224 345.018 224 208V80c0-26.51-21.49-48-48-48z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-name\"> <\/span><\/header>\n<blockquote class=\"e-summary\"><\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n<div class='e-content'>\n<blockquote><p>We are the image. We are the viewer and the viewed. There is no other distracting presence. And that image has all the Godly powers. It kills at will. Kills effortlessly. Kills beautifully. It dispenses morality. Judges endlessly. The electronic image is man as God and the ritual involved leads us not to a mysterious Holy Trinity but back to ourselves. In the absence of a clear understanding that we are now the only source, these images cannot help but return to the expression of magic and fear proper to idolatrous societies. This in turn facilitates the use of the electronic image as propaganda by whoever can control some part of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?redir_esc=y&amp;id=zIQQLMEcBaoC&amp;q=We+are+the+image.+We+are+the+viewer+and+the+viewed.#v=snippet&amp;q=%22We%20are%20the%20image.%20We%20are%20the%20viewer%20and%20the%20viewed.%22&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Ralston Saul, Voltaire\u2019s Bastards<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<section class=\"h-cite response p-quotation-of \">\n<header>\n<span class=\"svg-icon svg-quote\" aria-label=\"Quote\" title=\"Quote\" style=\"display: inline-block; max-height: 1rem; margin-right: 0.5rem\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\"><path d=\"M512 80v128c0 137.018-63.772 236.324-193.827 271.172-15.225 4.08-30.173-7.437-30.173-23.199v-33.895c0-10.057 6.228-19.133 15.687-22.55C369.684 375.688 408 330.054 408 256h-72c-26.51 0-48-21.49-48-48V80c0-26.51 21.49-48 48-48h128c26.51 0 48 21.49 48 48zM176 32H48C21.49 32 0 53.49 0 80v128c0 26.51 21.49 48 48 48h72c0 74.054-38.316 119.688-104.313 143.528C6.228 402.945 0 412.021 0 422.078v33.895c0 15.762 14.948 27.279 30.173 23.199C160.228 444.324 224 345.018 224 208V80c0-26.51-21.49-48-48-48z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-name\"> <\/span><\/header>\n<blockquote class=\"e-summary\"><\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n<p>We are the image. We are the viewer and the viewed. There is no other distracting presence. And that image has all the Godly powers. It kills at will. Kills effortlessly. Kills beautifully. It dispenses morality. Judges endlessly. The electronic image is man as God and the ritual involved leads us not to a mysterious&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-work","kind-quote","h-entry","hentry"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}