Ruminationnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
I am embarrassed to admit I didn’t understand some of the chapter. I can’t tell If that’s my fault or the authors. I reread some sections of the chapter and still didn’t understand the point. The Politics of Reproducibility is the main concept that confused me. I think the point they were making is that it is easier to make propaganda with a copy machine. I think that is the most obvious sentence I’ve ever read which might be why I feel as though I don’t understand it. Is that really the point that they took a page or few to make? The main lesson this book has taught me, which will be with more for the rest of my life, is that you aren’t a real or respected intellectual unless you talk in a way only few people can understand. “photography came about through particular nineteenth-century epistemic interests, around which a set of technologies and practices that came to be called ‘photography’ coalesced.” is a textbook example of obfuscation.
The part that said there are ways to use technology beyond its intended use reminded me of a time from high-school when my friends and I couldn’t find a bowl so we smoked out of a water bottle. The authors must have never heard of the word resourcefulness. They were describing a concept there is already a word for. I have been this high too. The drone example called Albert Einstein to my memory. His breakthroughs in scientific understanding were what enabled the conception of the most destructive weapon ever created and it’s not even close. That same knowledge is also what discovered the most efficient energy resource ever discovered.
This book brings out the worst reactions in me. I suspected this book was written by very old people when I read the way they described Che Guevara in a positive light. Che was a sadistic, racist, psychopath who found an excuse for his behavior. He enjoyed torturing animals and people.
