“I sit here before my computer, Amiguita, my altar on top of the monitor with the Virgen de Coatlalopeuh candle and copal incense burning. My companion, a wooden serpent staff with feathers, is to my right while I ponder the ways metaphor and symbol concretize the spirit and etherealize the body. The Writing is my whole life, it is my obsession. This vampire which is my talent does not suffer other suitors. Daily I court it, offer my neck to its teeth. This is the sacrifice that the act of creation requires, a blood sacrifice. For only through the body, through the pulling of flesh, can the human soul be transformed. And for images, words, stories to have this transformative power, they must arise from the human body--flesh and bone--and from the Earth's body--stone, sky, liquid, soil. This work, these images, piercing tongue or ear lobes with cactus needle, are my offerings, are my Aztecan blood sacrifices.” ― Gloria E. AnzaldĂșa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Thursday, January 16, 2014

McGovernment

The Telesthesiac communicates not with the body but through digitized extensions of the biologic faculties; in other words, he/she...it, the subject communicates (if at all) and takes the world in, through the tele-the “far off,” as the Greeks call it, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The digiztisiac: an organic mechanistic operant conditioned in the "far off". 


Since the telesthesiac takes the world in from a distance, using commodities such as the (mobile) telephonic, the television, the modern telegram—e-mail, etc, some might even say that there exists the potential for telesthesia anaesthesia. A condition wherein the the subject becomes object, an occurrence wherein the highly manipulable subjectivity, filtered through the "tele," becomes suggestible, thus existing the possibility for the telesthesiac amnesiac.

The sensory input becomes easily manipulable by the McGovernment. Have it your way at the Burger Kingdom. Your world, your side of fries and minimum wage. Eating dollar menu meals; the telesthesiac amnesiac. Happy world. Happy tummy--teletummy, teledummy. Happy meal; happy-go-lucky--telefunny; curly or regular? I'll have me a New World Order numero Zero. a la chingada. Teleshopping taking my telecourses living a telescopic existence teleporting via teledevices. Roads are under McConstruction, detours direct towards the Telepathy re-programming Zone. One McTelenation under value meals and insurance policies. Teledrugs for the telenarcs. Telenonsense. Telecrazy. Telestupid. Telesorry. Teledumb. Teleracist. Telesexist. Telecontroversy. Telenothing. Tel enothing. 
No tele. Tonight. No thing tele. Tel no thing. 





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