Chaosophy - autonomous learning

For this reason, the problem raised is the transformation of
traditional relations of production and other relations-familial,
conjugal, educational, etc ... But if one relaxes the brakes too
abruptly, then it is the machines of desire that risk flying off the
handle, and breaking not only through the outdated frontiers but
even the new ones the system wants to establish. The relations of
production, formation, and reproduction oscillate between immobilist
temptations and archaic fixations. The capitalist "solution"
consists in pushing models that are at once adapted to its imperatives
of standardization-i.e., that dismantle traditional territorialitiesand
that reconstitute an artificial security; in other words, that
modernize the archaisms and inject artificial ones. In conditions
such as these, from the angle of production, the worker will be
deterritorialized; from the angle of relations of production, formation,
and reproduction, he will be reterritorialized.
Cinema, television, and the press have become fundamental
instruments of forming and imposing a dominant reality and
dominant significations. Beyond being means of communication,
of transmitting information, they are instruments of power. They
not only handle messages, but, above all, libidinal energy. The
themes of cinema-its models, its genres, its professional castes, its
mandarins, its stars-are, whether they want to be or not, at the
service of power. And not only insofar as they depend directly on
the financial power machine, but first and foremost, because they
participate in the elaboration and transmission of subjective models.
Presently, the media, for the most part, functions in the service of
repression. But they could become instruments of liberation of great
importance. Commercial cinema, for example, entertains a latent
racism in its Westerns; it can prevent the production of films about
events like those of May '68 in France; but the Super-8 and the
videotape recorder could be turned into means of writing that are
much more direct and much more effective than discourses, pam-
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