Inertia

Microcosms store astronomical amounts of data. Dormant and unfinished documents. Copies of earlier drafts,. Objects, warehouses of surplus software. Hardware, simulated warehouse of baked goods, fried goods, raw goods. Tiny town storage units. People out numbered by objects, restraining the impulse to give them away. Dormant products, rowed, categorized, stuffed and sitting. For all the noise and movement the world is a still place.

The body wakes and moves out the kinks of rest through the habit of waking and moving and the kinks. Coffee to rouse from dormancy as the inertia of consumption takes over. These objects or bodies move out of having moved. The guns fire out of having fired. The factories make out of having made. The consumer works having worked.

The catastrophic stakes of slowing down increase as the system of consumption increases its strangle hold on the individual. Ever more specialized objects with more and more specific functions. Increased consuming potential in proportion to increased goods and their conditioned obsolescence. Narrowing limits on public behavior. Increased focus on personal ownership. Division, atomization. Increased institutionalization of every aspect of life mediated by more complicated objects. Technological problems are solved with more advanced technology. Systems of management become more invisible, transparent, as power hides beneath a surface play of images. Hiding mass manipulation and criminal injustice in the third world. Torture, abuse, environmental destruction.

Inertia takes over with the rousing of an object or a body from its dormancy. In a simulated and unreal world that scatters and disorients from a conception of time, that blinds one from a context in the simulation of perpetual now and the perpetual availability of goods, images, pleasure. A simulated world that atomized individuals into private corners and into anonymous collectives, and then continues to reproduce these conditions. Dislocation takes an appearance of fact. Consumers learn to value the conditions of pleasant slavery. This a world of pleasant echoes that deny the presence of the originating sounds. Inertia reigns supreme as the new condition of faceless, ubiquitous power, and whose subjects reproduce as the real, and not as the memory of movement.