the summary of "The Erotic Life Of Machines"

The article “ The Erotic Life of Machines”  written by Steven Shaviro talks about Chris Cunningham’s video for Bjork’s song “All Is full Of Love”. She said that “ we live in a time of massive technological, as well as social and political, change.” So we can see a lot of movie or novel  is relate to imaginative cyberfiction science fiction. All this movies or novels have often expresses an extreme ambivalence regarding the body.  She picks up an example - the Matrix, all of physical reality turns out to be mere virtual simulation, run by evil machines in order to confuse and exploit us. Through the Matrix, she wants to tells us this kind of film denounces virtual as a prison, but offers salvation in the form of an even greater immersion in virtuality. And then she begins to analyze the video “All Is full Of Love”. This song is about robots and is the best understanding in terms of  the reflex action which link to manipulation of sound and picture. The relationship between sound and image which they continually relay one another, respond to one another, and metamorphose into each other. The film sound is anchored by images. The video is mostly a study in different shades of white. Cunningham works with not only  gentle modulations of light, degrees of whiteness  and luminosity, but also the color version. The video can best be called a pluralistic monism, in sharp contrast to the radical dualism of the expressionist tradition. Bjork’s face is blank and impassive, a perfect mask in the video.  Shaviro said that faciality is not in itself subjectivity, it is the abstract dominate standard and brands the audience, and transforms the audience into a certain kind of willing, obedient subjects. Finally, she talks about the race and the voice in the video as well. She sum-up her article: the current computer – based needs to be answered and complexified by something that responds to the new digital medals. In this video, Bjork and Cunningham are inventing and develop new forms of sensibility, ones that are potentially appropriate to our cyborg future.