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How does one strike against hegemonial data control? Let’s take a cue from Tiqqun…

Interference is the prime vector of revolt.  Transplanted into the cybernetic world, the metaphor also makes reference to the resistance to the tyranny of transparency which control imposes.  Haze disrupts all the typical coordinates of perception.  It makes it indiscernible what is visible and what is invisible, what is information and what is an event.  This is why it represents one of the conditions for the possibility of events taking place. Fog makes revolt possible. In a novel called “Love is Blind,” Boris Vian imagined what the effects of a real fog in existing relations.  The inhabitants of a metropolis wake up one morning filled by a “tidal wave of opacity” that progressively modifies all their behaviors.  The needs imposed by appearances quickly become useless and the city is taken over by collective experimentation.  Love becomes free, facilitated by a permanent nudity of all bodies.  Orgies spread everywhere.  Skin, hands, flesh; all regain their prerogative, since “the domain of the possible is extended when one is no longer afraid that the light might be turned on.”  Incapable of prolonging a fog that they did not contribute to the formation of, they are relieved when “the radio says that experts have noted that the phenomenon will be returning regularly.”  In light of this everyone decides to put out their own eyes so that life can go on happily.

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