the vacuous repetition
of an incomprehensible text
only increases
its magical power
writes
Dubravka Ugresic
and what your cellphone,
tablet, notebook, laptop,
desktop, TV – every screen
in itself a vacuous repetition – what
every screen repeats
(out of what used to be a
vacuum tube)
in its vacuity,
what every media device, recording apparatus
repeats
and what every video, moving image, clip, film and movie
repeats
in every medium, codec and code
on every media platform
is the mad spectacle,
the crazy mess,
the incomprehensible
:
every repetition
only increases its
magical power
–
its power
to capture
and control
.
