stapler

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953498166049915499.post-50136626477829181682007-03-19T19:58:00.000-07:002008-06-12T19:48:45.975-07:00stapler<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GfMfoK-GcV4/Rf9OEdcPlrI/AAAAAAAAAAM/calpoYunx-M/s1600-h/stapler03.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GfMfoK-GcV4/Rf9OEdcPlrI/AAAAAAAAAAM/calpoYunx-M/s320/stapler03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043835946207778482" /></a> The stapler binds. It gathers. It silences. It is a primitive implement of the archive. Its power is use-value functional, unless corrupted by perversities relating to genital entrapment, pre-pubescent attempts at acts of sadism or masochism (generally performed in front of other pre-pubescent spectators), latent discoveries in office cubicles associating the accidental puncturing of one finger with the possibility of fucking the secretary upon the managers desk, (as fantasized through office pornography starting in the early seventies, often with a stapler in the periphery of the filmic frame), and artistic modes of expression. Traditionally the stapler gathers information. It does not organize it, it entrenches it firmly in its already established mode of organization. The will to preserve the organization of each set, is materialized through the staple itself, which participates in an intimate relationship with the mechanical support (the body) of the stapler, requiring a certain amount of labor on the part of agency that, again, derives its power from a trajectory initially rooted in the will to preserve the organization of knowledge. Following the advent of electric staplers, the labor required to manifest this will was substituted with the autonomy of an electronic stapler body. The stapler therefore became the implement by which the will of the subject is granted power independently of action. The coalescence of intentionality and movement. This same phenomenon can be observed (on a larger scale industrially) in the genealogy of pencil sharpeners, bottle openers, egg-beaters, and other electro-domestic products that are second-order extensions of more primitive products.AMIRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02500825281961813362noreply@blogger.com