Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego /// V / W or Virilio's War.

V/W
It could be, for example, Life*, or the Visible, facing its replications, representations, doubles, and reflections (W): the repetitive cancer that smothers and annuls it, changing it into some thinned-out material, spread over monitors, plasma screens, viewing machines (ah, the perceptron!) and binary codes. A world in amnesia, yet in constant self-transmission and expansion, fighting off all (present) manifestations of life. A world of blindness, too, for we no longer see things; this is done for us by "viewing machines"– the product of our looking without seeing; (the perceptron is precisely the regulatory ideal of our futuren – perhaps already present – ways of seeing). A blindness which has become the latest form of industrialization: the industrialization of non-sight. Serial vision: W. The effect of the numerous technological protheses of sight, which have come to the aid of our tired – or strained – eyes. These are our times. Times of a world at war, as always. The War of the World, like the same old film, but set now. Now that we have stripped the world to a thin filmstrip, to a plate on which images flicker past, or – worse still – to a mere surface for the ejection of light particles and ciphered numbers... Era of generalised simulation, or integral dissimulation, in view of the discredit of territorial space and the artifice of a regime of false temporality. Thus V/W could also signify the confrontation of the old Truth* (and its familiar true / false dichotomy) with the complex, sybilline and blurred terrain of the potential, the virtual, the different possibles and doubles (W) which have become our times' correlative of so-called objectivity.