Reading Expanded Cinema p41-p58

Some key words in this week's reading:
Paleocybernetic & Cybernetic, Revolution & Radical evolution, Entertainment & Art

Author doesn't simply stress the point that the change is our only constant but almost instills it into the whole article and every words, he also puts a series of rhetorical questions related our traditional concepts even our traditional thinking models to let us begin to envisage the modern relationship between human and human, past and present. Indeed,there are too much irrelevant message inundated into our society, so most human's consciousness is being a mess. He trusts that art (or expanded cinema in his book)is tool we need to alleviate this polarising mess and help to rebuild our consciousness scientifically. In a word, I learn his attitude which is instead of analysing multiple various queer questions, sometimes,we need to research our question itself at first.

Living in contemporary cybernetic age, few people ever stopped to feel our big environment,they usually concentrate only on their own relative stuff, confine their intellect into the common sense. Even though not everyone ought to be a deep theory explorer, I insist that people who try to think and do himself like author's ways could grasp our contemporary momentum greatly.







In the end, I'd like to record some sentences in this book which I think are really thought-provoking.

Knowledge is not simply accumulated facts but the reduction of unrelated and often apparently irrelevant facts into new conceptual wholes.
Life becomes art when there's no difference between what we are and what we do,art is a synergetic attempt at closing the gap between what is and what ought to be.
The modification of the right according to the ideas of the left,the new consciousness transcends both right and left,we must redefine everything.
Simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
To be free of the toil of old relationships we must first be free of the conditioning that instills it within us,just as water takes the shape of its container,so human nature is relative to its past and present conditioning.