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History, 19th Century: From Railroad to Car. Bullet and Machine gun. The Idea of Engine. Oil and Chemestry. Capitalism, Imperialism, Colonization.
Film is mass-produced technology medium, possible only in highly industrial society. New forms = new feelings.

Morality and atheism (Celebrities -- celebration of the moment). Deadlines. Life is a short story, limited and days/hours are numbered. (200 years ago average life expectancy is 37, Africa today).

Spirit over Flesh had to lead us to war against space. Speed is the weapon. Invisible speed (only acceleration, increasing speed, matters).

Control and Disciplines (Culture Mechanism, Foucault). Over ourselves -- first.

Victory over Nature (Second Nature) = Will to Power. Individual > Collective. Overman (empowered by technology) -- new primitive. After the end is the fall into pre-history.

High Modernity and Postmodernity. The Crisis or the End? Space Age, Light Years.

Information, Data or Knowledge? "No facts, only interpretations" (Neitzsche), no history, no fixed knowledge.

Maximum Speed = Light. New Values -- Time. Chronos (Father of Zeus). Time as Space (Territory and Orientation in Time) -- Hypertext (vertical portal) and time zones. TV programming (prime time), quality time, non-equal time, personal time, work and leasure time (time qualifications). "Lost Time" (Proust and Existentialism). Non-stop living as work. Productivity in living. Monetary equivalent of everything (money matrix, financial algorithm). Ecomonics of Time-production.

American Age, Youth Culture -- thanks to photography. Reflections of body (Deleuze's "Body without Organs"). Baudrillard's simulacra. Illusion in place of the Real. "Being and Time" -- being is constructed from the void. (Universe is the big empty space).

Recording and Memory (Bergson). Everything must be preserved (pollution is the result of this attitude, plastic).

Dramatic Time: between Past and Future. History = New Sense of It!

Process: Deleuze (from Film-Image to Film-time). Time as Material. We have to control it to the point when we can stop time (Faust). All we need to do is to move with the speed of light (Einstein).

Relativity and non-linear thought. Multi-dimensional world.

Electricity and Electronic Century. The Digital, Cyber, Virtual...

Montage -- Contextuality over Text. Cut -- method of breaking. Image v. Word. Emotional Thought and Propaganda/Advertising. "Agressive Data" -- targeted marketing. Anti-Dictionary.

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