Reading: Spam Of The Earth by Hito Steyerl - Withdrawal from Representation

Reconstructions of the image, never pure - the images we see around us are only reconstructions of what we 'should' be, not for what we are. Unlike for black people in particular the constructions of our image is seen as inferior, the unacceptable, the unfamiliar, and the sub-normal. What's promoted to the world and Universe included is the spam of chronic imperfection for black people, its nowhere near positive in comparison to black people, what promoted is not necessarily what we should be, but A CONDITIONED BELIEF OF WHAT WE ARE -eternally bad, unfavorable, inferior people. ******That we actually reach this standard, we attain it, it's not the unattainable for us, we keep meeting the negative ideology due to our wounds - so we can end up living in chronic pain and never resolve it. As we easily BECOME it as we believe that about ourselves. So we stay stuck as we BELIEVE, this is what we are, false self, and never know we could've been purely, even if we try to meet it or find it. - Our chronic damage, due to constant, ingrained negative ideologies taught to promote this is what we are that it's infinite. Not what we should be - like positive. It's all negative

Also, the things that aren't documented are dangerous too, as it'll look like it never existed - linking to John Berger on photography
Impure documentation, if the truth is never documented its like it never happened eg. perfectible, however with black people its the imperfect, inherently flawed

'The more people are represented, the less is left of them in reality'. -- There is a misconception, cameras represent, however it's only false. They represent what we aren't, an enhanced false sense of self. It's almost like 'Black spam'- black people are represented as what we think we are or believe to be but not for who we are

—because ideology tries to impose a
forced mimicry on people, thus making them invest in their own
oppression and correction in trying to reach unattainable standards
of efficiency, attractiveness, and fitness.

---- We're not living as the real self. Instead, we invest in the oppression of correction, to correct ourselves into what society believes is the 'perfect'. Therefore, we're not living internally, we're living externally, constantly seeking external validation to gain relief from our inner wounds within - which is the wound of feeling humanity is never good enough, through society imposing we're not good enough (in which only serves capitalism). In effect, we're not living AS SELF

Through investing and being addicted to these ideologies to survive and gain temporary relief we become the drug dealer for society, supplying them with their drugs (aka money for instance). As they only TAKE from us, as a result of making us feel we are excluded and subvert to reality. When in actual fact how humanity is represented is not reality, it's far from real and completely unattainable, Therefore, we're only stuck in the cycle of 'never being enough' and constantly try to gain relief from the wound we have been indoctrinated with. By us staying STUCK, they benefit and gain. In effect Capitalism is maintained, by the system making you feel there is something wrong with you - they win. When the system and ideologies are wrong, NOT YOU.

-----'Rather than a document of domination, image spam
is the people’s monument of resistance to being represented like this. They are leaving the given frame of representation. '

----Image spam directly is a representation of humanity resists and are not in reality. So by the false, inaccurate image being left behind it leaves a mark of what we are not in real life, as unnconcioulsy we are resisting the representation that's left behind, due to our real physical form represents

----'In an age of unrepresentable people and an
overpopulation of images, this relation is irrevocably altered.
Image spam is an interesting symptom of the current situation
because it is a representation that remains, for the most part,
invisible.'

----There is an overpopulation of the unrepresentable, it becomes the invisible, the unseen --(like with Artist Lai-Sheng, looking at the different ways in which things become the invisible, and creates an illusion). Only a standard of how humanity should be is portrayed, none of it is reflective of real life.

'...Image spam circulates endlessly without ever being seen by a human
eye. It is made by machines, sent by bots, and caught by spam filters,
which are slowly becoming as potent as anti-immigration walls,
barriers, and fences. The plastic people shown in it thus remain, to a
large extent, unseen.

'...since a magical process will ensure that all you are ever going to see in the
positive is a bunch of populist substitutes and impostors, enhanced
crash-test dummies trying to claim legitimacy. The image of the
people as a nation, or culture, is precisely that: a compressed
stereotype for ideological gain.'

In those false images being left behind in the Universe, it pleads legitimacy, realism, as it's a conditioned standard of humanity, to remind us of what we are deficient in/lacking in when its only an ideology or construct it does not make it right. This is similar to black people as what's amplified is an indoctrinated negative ideology and belief system of black people - that's what represented constantly. However, it's not like society knows that what's put out there is illegitimate and they are in on the trick, and humanity knows it's intentionally being deceived, being shown the unattainable/false reality, like with the rest of image spam. Our climate/society GENUINELY believes and black people themselves from within that we are eternally inferior, the unacceptable, the sub-normal --- this is the key to Our chronic damage due to the fixed state of impurity black people are in/irreversible brokenness, these are our wounds/emotional pain which we can heal but the damage left behind is chronic. Therefore, the spam left behind for black people does not actually resist or withdraws from representation, it becomes the legitimate, as society genuinely believes this is the true self and identity of black people such as superiors/white culture in particular, other ethnicities and even black people in return. Society determined then and still determines TODAY in nuanced ways that the sight of black people, blackness, black itself is defined as deficient, lacking in all departments - which for example helps maintain financial gain for superiors and gatekeepers (capitalism) The sight of black people, 'black' itself is SEEN as deficient/impure which surpasses just an ideology, idea, assumption or perception of black people/blackness. It's a BELIEF of black people, it's seen as the truth/fact. - fixed state of impurity.

Image Spam is the true avatar of the
people. A negative image with absolutely no pretense to originality?
An image of what the people are not as their only possible
representation?

DCP Specialism - 2nd Project: 'The Place We're In/You're In'

DCP Specialism - 2nd Project: 'The Place We're In/You're In'

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