Fw: Morris/Hiroshima/PoMo

[Otto Sell]

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Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: Allan James Thomas <a.j.thomas at latrobe.edu.au>
To: <deleuze-guattari at lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 6:47 AM
Subject: Morris/Hiroshima/PoMo

>
> > Meaghan Morris once wrote something along the lines that the mushroom
> > cloud over Hiroshima in 1945 annonced Postmodernism.
>
>  I've often thought that the Holocaust offers itself to be understood as
the
> high point/end point of modernity (a kind of fordist mass production of
> death). Deleuze seems to be pointing at something like this in his
alignment
> of fascism and the movement-image in Cinema 2. Many thanks in advance.
>
> merry sweltering xmas from melbourne
>
> ajt
> _________________________
> Allan James Thomas
> Lecturer in Cinema & Digital Media
> RMIT University
> Melbourne, Australia
> _________________________
>
>