American Woman
"I don't need your war machines / I don't need your ghetto scenes / Coloured lights can hypnotize / Sparkle someone else's eyes / Now woman, get away from me / American woman, mama let me be." — The Guess Who
"I don't need your war machines / I don't need your ghetto scenes / Coloured lights can hypnotize / Sparkle someone else's eyes / Now woman, get away from me / American woman, mama let me be." — The Guess Who
The reference is from George Lucas' epic 1971 movie, THX 1138, in which a state-controlled intensification of communication processes manages every facet of daily life in a futuristic society, regulating the flux of all human subjects in work, leisure and love.
Though the Department exists in homage to Lucas’ vision, our consideration of biological flow seeks to reinvigorate the agency of the (in)human subject in its negotiations with economic and political structures both material and immaterial.
www.departmentofbiologicalflow.net
September 8th, 2009
[...] will always precede some form of material lag time (nerve conductivity, electromagnetic interface, state censorship) that precludes the possibility for the subject of the gesture to ever be fully [...]