Transcendent Power and the Mirrored Rhombus Prism
Andrew Norman Wilson
4 minute mini-DV video
2008
Architecture’s enhancement of the figure-ground dialectic through an idealized isolated form, privatized health care as transcendent power, automated calling systems as the delegation of social rules to a device. These are the institutional conditions of abstraction and control that I became aware of in a dispute with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. Video shot at the healthcare provider’s North Carolina headquarters before being asked to leave the premises.
“There is a mirror, amid the commodity form is also this mirror, but since all of a sudden it no longer plays its role, since it does not reflect back the expected image, those who are looking for themselves can no longer find themselves in it. Men no longer recognise in it the social character of their own labour. It is as if they were becoming ghosts in their turn.”
-Jacques Derrida, Spectres of Marx.
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