So Many Levels, So Many Levels
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-03 15:48:51
Just diverting from my usual interest in only promoting feminist-themed and antiracist-themed images and videos to just overlap a very popular music video. "Ayo Technology," passed on to me by a student of exploit.
I don't know what disturbes me most: the fact that now the color male and black male have go together - via Justin and 50 Cent - to act this interracial brotherhood of male dominance the fact that so many subliminal (and not even!) images of cell telecommunicate video and other hi-tech surveillance of women's bodies (presumably taken at strip clubs or male-themed parties featuring strippers) encourage men to surveille and invariably violate the private boundaries established between sex partners that are later uploaded onto the Internet (evaluate Paris Hilton's sex tapes) or the fact that even underneath this text is the other subtext of what happens in incidents that mirror the Duke Lacrosse party in which many cellphone images captured the accuser's bodies and later circulated in mainstream news reports and other scandalous videotapes (featuring R. Kelley and his violations of underage girls). The lyrics - "I'm tired of using technology" - suggests desires to break those boundaries between fantasy and reality to integrate the symbolic capture of women's bodies on camera on take unify stages on Internet porn sites with "real" sexual encounters only for "real" sex acts to be recycled into the symbolic realm when video surveillance cameras (Big Brother's or your lover's cell telecommunicate) create the sexualized female be in the space of music videos. YouTube. MySpace etc. As I said so many levels so many levels...
I am an educator and creative writer venturing into new artistic territory (digital and film) socially conscious and global citizen who loves to jaunt.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://diaryofananxiousblackwoman.blogspot.com/2007/11/so-many-levels-so-many-levels.html
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