A schizophrenic out for a walk...: 2011/09

Friday, September 30, 2011

야자유, 그리고 유니레버…

위키백과 읽다 보니 유니레버라는 회사의 재미있는 사실을 발견;
마가린 만들던 네덜란드 회사(Unie)와 비누 만들던 영국회사(Lever)가 합병해서 만든 회사인데…. 무엇보다도 눈길을 끄는건 그 역사의 이면에 놓여있는 숨겨진 중요한 요소 - 야자유(Palm Oil)이다.

글로벌 기업(자본)이라는게 어느날 갑자기 짜잔~하고 근사하게 만들어 진게 아니라, 그 역사의 이면과 배경에는 (식민지) 강제노동, 노동자/농민의 피와 땀, 눈물이 "자본"의 ‘씨앗’이었다는 것.

UNILEVER = “Naamlooze Vennootschap Margarine Unie" of the Netherlands and "Lever Brothers Limited" of the UK.

The amalgamation of the operations of British soapmaker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie made sound commercial sense, as palm oil was a major raw material for both margarines and soaps…

The initial harvesting of palm oil was from British West Africa, from where news reports seen back in England showed the workers abroad in favourable conditions. In 1911 the company received a concession for 750,000 hectares of forest in Belgian Congo, mostly south of Bandundu, where a system of forced labour operated. The subsidiary of Lever was named “Huileries du Congo Belge".

During the great depression in the thirties, the Huileries sharply decreased the fee for gathered oil nuts, while the government of Belgian Congo strongly increased taxation. This resulted in social unrest in 1931, which are known as the Revolution of the Pende, in which eventually more than 400 members of the Pende-tribe were killed…

[Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unilever ]

Thursday, September 29, 2011

결국은 상여를 타고서야 돌아갈 고향, 어머니의 품

아름답고 감미로운 향수와 그 옛날 고향으로 돌아가고자 소박한 소망의 노래...

끝 소절의 상여 소리를 들을때 마다 맘이 짠~하다.

Tom Jones이 부른 "Green Green Grass Of Home" 이란 노래도 정태춘의 "고향집가세"라는 노래와 같이 마지막에 애절한 반전이 있다.

어머니 품과 같이 따스하고 꿈결 같은 행복으로의 회귀는,,, 결국은 상여를 타고서야 돌아간다는...

정태춘 "고향집가세"

Joan Baez 가 부른 나름 색다른 느낌의 "Green Green Grass Of Home"

Friday, September 09, 2011

정말 쓰잘데기 없는 知的 관심사...

The nihilist vs. The political activist; Camus & Sartre or Nietzsche & Marx...

The nihilist, like a biblical prophet who has drunk so deeply of the banal darkness of everyday life that he can only mutter imprecations...

The political activist, who chooses immersion in history rather than silence, and for whom ambivalence over the question of the nature of good and evil, of love and murder, is suppressed in favor of political commitment.Two rebellions :: The rebel with a choice between metaphysical rebellion(revolt against God) and historical rebellion(political revolt).

...which exists in rebellion against absolutes; against religious absolutes(the death of God) and against historical absolutes(the death of ideology)

- [The Possessed Individual] by Arthur Kroker,1992

Technology & the French thoughts

Technology & the French thoughts ; technology as pure speed (Virilio), technology as simulation (Baudrillard), the rhetoric of technology (Barthes), technology as a desiring-machine (Deleuze & Guattari), technology as aesthetics (Lyotard) and technologies of subjectivity(Foucault)…

French discourse on technology begins with the violent exteriorization of the self, actually producing an eerie and disturbing account of cynical technology. Of technology, that is, in its fully aestheticized phase where speaking means the rhetoric machine, where living means simulation, where the self is a desiring-machine, and where feeling is a rhizomatic network…

- [The Possessed Individual] by Arthur Kroker, 1992

Thursday, September 08, 2011

[雜說] 노동의 神性함, "신성한 노동"이라는 주장,,

[雜說] 노동의 神性함, "신성한 노동"이라는 주장, 그 언설의 기저에는 (육체)노동에 대한 변론 보다는,
오히려 내면 깊숙히 성직자의 논리, 주인-노예관계에서의 주인의 논리가 더더욱 함축되어 있다.

[雜說] 노동의 神性함, "신성한 노동"이라는 주장, 그 언설의 기저에는 (육체)노동에 대한 변론 보다는, 오히려 내면 깊숙히 성직자의 논리, 주인-노예관계에서의 주인의 논리가 더더욱 함축되어 있다. http://ow.ly/6nLL5
— Om Namah Shivaya (@nomadic_crow) September 7, 2011