DJ Mehdi - Leave It Alone
pressed in 2006
First, the Silver Surfer passes over a japanese sea and freezes the water into solid ice.
Second, the Silver Surfer shoots through the Sahara desert and changes the temperature into one capable of freezing the Sphinx and producing snowflakes.
Third, The Silver Surfer traverses the Los Angeles air space and shorts the city's electricity supply.
Yet, the Silver Surfer remains unchanged.
But, if you listen closely, you might hear him humming this as he passes - "party people i'm ready to rock and if you wanna be down you gotta give me whatcha got go on fellas in the place don wanna steal your chrome you got to give it up or leave, leave it alone."
Fragmentation, arbitrary partitions destined to assure the reign of the one who passes, the power of the one who moves, the system of movement of reality and matter and not, as one thinks, of recording, geometry proves to have been the hidden face of this 'movement-power' crafted by the Occident since antiquity. So, if to produce is first of all to move, to measure is to displace, not simply to survey - to displace in order to execute measure - but rather: to displace the territory in its (geometric, cartographic) representation. Its geophysical reality is deported in a geodesic configuration that possesses only one entirely relative anthropocentric value.
To set dimensions is thus to dephase, to dephase with respect to the observer, this geometry, this 'voyeur-surveyor' who produces the measure at the same time as he causes its displacement. In fact, night and day no longer organize life, in this 'false (dromoscopic) day' where sunrise is equivalent to sunset, speed gives rise to life and death, indifferently. As Leo Szilard suggested bitterly on the subject of planetary nuclear annihilation, 'The earth is perhaps not the most important planet in the solar system...'
- Paul Virilio (cut)
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