few years ago I explain one of the ghosts from my childhood I was accompanying television. I remember those Saturday afternoons, glued to the television, along with my siblings, anxiously awaiting a new release of Coyote and Runner . Since then I had some questions: How can you be so stupid to ruin everything so quickly? How could fate will prime both the poor Coyote? Aside from my fascination with all those devices and inventions that served nothing, and besides my deep revulsion at this twisted ostrich, and a child, I remember clearly, I thought I had hidden trick. That somewhere in history was the key to understanding all those contradictions. Today I know that the story they told was a subtle discourse on the Christian desire on social conformity versus what we can not or will not let us get. But on the other hand, I also know that Coyote was a great metaphor for contemporary technology, on the concept of speed and on the governance of that idea.
The Coyote struggled against speed against a world that was quicker than himself, against an unattainable object of desire, not because he could be caught, but because it went too fast. For that reason, the Coyote would spend the day equipped with all kinds of gadgets, is a superject , in the terminology of Deleuze; needed these machines, these prostheses to put the fork in the world (Roadrunner, a objetil ) to establish an equal relationship. Their machines were almost always speed devices, displacement technologies. The Coyote was a kind of cyborg, a being conscious of that and stop looking at things had to be scribbled at the same speed that stuff. And quite often get it. While, yes, worried about the damn run like ostrich, never remember eating it at the right time.
The story of Coyote and the Road Runner was certainly not new, but perhaps has been the first to reach millions of people simultaneously in a single instant, through television. Actually, it was Galileo who laid the cornerstone of this debate: a hole in which to look very far afield. With the invention of the telescope, the Italian astronomer and others who followed him established that the distances were so huge that it was necessary for a complete rethinking of the idea of \u200b\u200bspeed. More than that, with the telescope it became clear that to establish empirically the slightest notion of speed was necessary to "machine" devices that were able to deduce the distance, to conquer space. Science, from Baroque is a pure exercise to master speed, from the tiniest and infinitesimal physical and chemical processes that occur in nanomilésimas second to the most progressive transformations cosmic, from our constant changes of mood to the infinite variables that make a historical process somewhat fickle. Everything becomes a probability, the Jesuit law relativism. Everything happens to consist of possibilities and variations. Master is variable so as to be more prepared at the time of his ghostly appearance. That is, we are equipped with certain technologies, such as telescope, microscope, to analyze our processes beyond simple sensory perception we or film cameras to capture fleeting reality, we buy televisions, radios or computers to make sense at a speed of communication and management information that runs kilobytes per second, and invent the train, car or plane to turn away something tactile, in light of those nineteenth-century technologies like the telegraph, which predicted a highest speed in the world's information.
With the telescope, man could detect planets light years away from the earth could see them but I could not play, as he went to Coyote. All science came to be founded on the idea of \u200b\u200bprediction, empirical analysis could show things that are intangible, they were far away but we could see clearly in the glass of the machine in front of our eyes. It is extremely difficult to photograph an atom, when lit, it is ejected. What we see is a trace of the atom, through which we infer its existence. The escape velocity is the objective measure. Observe the stars supposed to calculate the time it takes light to reach the earth, in order to define from the actual date of the planets at the time of observation. Science, in fact, happened to be science fiction or, rather, science-prediction science search to understand what you see in the crystal. A science due to the need to predict, as if it were a military will: anticipation to facts that exist, whose existence is likely and corroborated. Computers, without going any further, are what they are because they originated in contexts such as the military, in which the prediction is fundamental: the ballistic calculation or strategy scenarios that require huge computer with lots of variables. The rules of this science-prediction we find everywhere today: in the stock market investment strategies, decisions to be taken by a player in front of the console of a video game, virtual reality where we can simulate a building has not yet been built, or magazine reviews which point out scientific errors in the series Star Trek (how do you know the scientific errors in the design of a spacecraft in the year 4000?).
This has much substance, if they stop a moment to think about it. If science began a race to establish what can happen, then it is really tempting to create a reality based on what is to come. You see that this is very religious, and certainly not by accident. The teleological science we have made, ie there is a function of something future, in a way very similar to the religious model. Science, by showing that there are things possible, demonstrable in the sight glass or screen, but not yet assimilated by the roots break the classical models of reality and fiction, to engage all in a state of probability and simulation, tests of closeness to what you see at the end of the telescope. Those odds certainly end up affecting our own present, as in the fabric of reality to legislate with an eye on that day will come. Legislation is invariably established institutionally and legitimizes the scientific mechanisms for its own predictability and registration.
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