“In a state of constant distraction, the consciousness
of the collective acts like a shock bsorber, registering
sense impressions without really experiencing them:
Shocks are”intercepted, parried by conscoiusness, ‘ in
order to prevent a traumatic effect. [Montage] provides
the audience with a new capacity to study this modern
existence reflectively, from ‘the position of a expert.’”
(Buck-Morss 1995:268)

“… collage writing may reveal the artificial character of social
identities and the cultural constructs we take to be most real
(Pfohl 1992:97-101). As Jackie Orr suggests, ‘performing sociology’
[as collage …] is ‘also and most immediately about critical, creative
responses to struggles over what gets to count as, and who gets to
make, public knowledge and collective memory’ (2006:27).”
(Pfohl 2006)

“BUSH WARFARE 2006 is militant cut’n paste soundklash,
the bastard child of the war against piracy and the war
against terror. In 80 minutes the mix samples more
than 320 sources, most of them protests against the
new age of war and its most prominent leader.”
(liberation chabalala versus the war on terror)

liberation chabala’s 79 minute and 32 second BUSH WARFARE 2006 mix has kept me company for days. The audio-collage of Presidential misfires and hip-hop heavy artillery fulfills the “healing potential” of montage/collage, namely to construct “synthetic realities” in which “fragmented images” - or, in this case, fragmented language & sound - is brought together “according to a new law” (Buck-Morss 1995:268). The track’s 79 minutes and 32 seconds establish the laws of skepticism, protest, and radical consciousness and synthesize from them a reality for our President’s unreal justifications of and promises for this war.

“You’re free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it’ll take time to restore chaos and order …”

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