Traffic jams David R Cole

EVERYDAY LIFE _ DELEUZE AND GUATTARI _ 1000 PLATEAUS…WHAT IS THE PLATEAU OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE?‘THE PETRO-CITIZEN’

Analyzing

PETROPOLITICSPIPELINES (OF CAPITAL)ROADSWORK COMMITMENTSLEISURE TIMECAR ADVERTISING & TOP GEARFRUSTRATION-DELAY-POWERLESSNESS-FEAR OF LATENESSGLOBAL WARMINGCAR PRODUCTION/CONSUMPTION AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM

Rhizomatic connections:

HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=E2LXPBIR5ME

What is a traffic jam?

THE UNCONSCIOUSREPETITIONTIME – DURATION – VITALISMSPINOZISM – AFFECTMARXIAN PRODUCTIONTHE PLANE OF IMMANENCEESTABLISHING DIFFERENCES IN KIND (NON KANTIAN)

Elements of immanent materialism:

Andy Warhol – pink car

What is a car crash?

Death drive

Tone Saturation

How can one represent the reality of a car crash?

von2

Ben Quilty

Contortionism?Brightness Sharpness

A painting of a car crash is a rupture point that shows us the underlying reality of everyday life (affect)

Tom McGrath untitled car 4 2004

Warhol - Green burning car Time lapse car crash

Car crashes and traffic jams are synthesized through their representation in time/colour/form and abstract elements of car and flesh (ruptures/sutures) - Dena Schuckit Zagged 2010

Surrealism Dada situationist constructivism

Broken Mechanical Flower

the creative unconscious

Car sickness

libidinal ‘carism’

Ethology – or the study of the composition of behaviours – human and non human

Crashhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vZTYkmAcsvk

The moment of impact ><

The subject is invaded by the plateau of the petro-citizen…

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This invasion, according to immanent materialism, can only be followed, using figures such as the machinic phylum, whereby the inorganic and organic are synthesized and capable of producing new life…www.strandbeest.com/mGallery/transport/transport_DSC00002.jpg

Car crashes

everydayIntersections- dynamics-cars-

machines…

Traffic jams life

Lived and imagined realities

The end-point of global capitalism and politics (peak oil)

The first traffic jam (1913) in New York caused by Henri Bergson

Accelerated capitalism

Desire for sensation – speed - death

The viral imagination

Sex, car crashes and traffic jams

The longest traffic jams in the world

Are now in Beijing

The advent of the Chinese petro-citizen

Traffic jams and representations of crashing

North-Pacific gyre

Michael Douglas and road rage

epilogue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8b3963VRW4&feature=related