{"id":463,"date":"2016-01-14T09:27:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T09:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/?p=463"},"modified":"2018-01-10T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T09:50:55","slug":"they-live-or-an-image-ocr-for-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/they-live-or-an-image-ocr-for-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"They Live, or an image OCR for ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The plot of They Live is deceptively simple. Roddy Piper\u2019s character, a semi-homeless day laborer named Nada (Spanish for \u201cnothing\u201d) discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to identify the extraterrestrials who have infiltrated the Earth\u2019s populace.&#8221; (Read more about the story plot on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/08\/07\/america_is_a_neoliberal_horror_movie_why_they_live_is_the_perfect_film_for_our_depraved_times_partner\/\">salon.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/inZUDMGJsKo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a fashion very similar to computer vision procedures, the glasses first discard color information. They then convert or translate images into text. More precisely into orders. Watching the images makes you a slave who obeys without knowing it to these injunctions. Using the glasses, you are then able to <em>read<\/em> instead of <em>watching<\/em>. It is interesting to note that Carpenter does not choose to display the text as a subtitle or comment to these images, but to replace them. Using the glasses, the modes are switched. They cannot coexist. The glasses are not only a sort of OCR for ideology, they also detect faces. Or more precisely, reverse-detect them. When seeing an alien with the glasses, its face becomes a dead mask, the alien looses its faciality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The plot of They Live is deceptively simple. Roddy Piper\u2019s character, a semi-homeless day laborer named Nada (Spanish for \u201cnothing\u201d) discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to identify the extraterrestrials who have infiltrated the Earth\u2019s populace.&#8221; (Read more about the story plot on salon.com) In a fashion very similar to computer vision procedures, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[47,45,153,26,32,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}