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## i. Into the Machine
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A common misconception of Debord's idea of the spectacle is that images are evil. Absolute statements like that really only belong in marxist ideology and dont really
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do much for me or what I plan on saying. Images are tools and since their signifigance probably won't disappear it seems prudent for us flag waving radicals to use them. The
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do much for me or what I plan on saying. Images are tools and since their signifigance probably won't disappear, it seems prudent for us flag waving radicals to use them. The
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same power of image that can push a person to buy a truckload of shit they dont really want or need, could also be used to make them behead a politician. This delicate dance of iconography
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is, in this anarchist's humble opinion, best reflected in the Cyberpunk movement. Ignoring the fact that a horde of fuarking people that are cringing at my use of the word
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is, in this anarchist's humble opinion, best reflected in the Cyberpunk movement. Ignoring the fact that a horde of fuarking people are probably cringing at my use of the word
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"movement", Cyberpunk has what many consider to a pretty damn good true-to-life take on the present and near future. Its motto: High Tech Low life, can be seen in the massive
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catalog of media its inspired. When this motto is expanded, one can see that Cyberpunk orbits around juxtaposition of seemingly god-like technology and its effect on
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the people who are controlled and atomized by it. Stop me if that sounded familiar. That idea was cemented in the Cyberpunk canon by Gibson's Neuromancer and brought to
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