[-empyre-] empyre: engagement is all

[Gary Warner]

On 12/07/2013, at 5:54 AM, Johannes Birringer wrote:

> [Gary schreibt] >   'we have a problem houston.'
> 
> 
> Actually, we don't have a problem here in Houston at the minute, nor in outer space. 
> 
> When the Apollo 13 crew member reported back to base, he actually said 'Houston: We've had a problem.'
> The transmission became misquoted over time, misused and then abused, for restaurant commercials
> and other things ["Wii have a problem"), and so on. Not sure about the Go Pro heroes....

thanks johannes - I sit corrected…

another metonymic collapse - they pop like bubbles, don't they?

my interest in 'the accident' runs prior to, but now parallel with, whatever manifestations may erupt within the twitterverse - akin to you, I choose not to participate in either facebook or twitter, and tv is an occasional self-administered vice…

my self-publishing activites on the internet are as experimental as anything and everything else in my life as an artist-without-a-card...

theorising the accident, and it's exploitation within the framework of consumer capialism's media machines, is a broad and deep enterprise, at the healm of which I place my p virillio mind-puppet boldly inscribing where no words were before…

but I don't cataegorise as a catastrophist - these relayed anti-miraculous events and instances hold me in thrall, it's true - I want to have ways to think about them, but they're not a cosmological anchoring…

just now, attempting to establish the credentials of your intriguing reference to jon mackenzie and the artaud festival  (I admit to a phantom of doubt on its veracity), typing "The Revelations of Dr. Kx4l3ndj3r"  into vimeo returned 

"Behold, 292K videos matching your search. "  

where to start? - buglovely

so, with nanotime available to me this deadline driven day, my investigations of the good dr challenger are inevitably delayed… 

but finally : 

On 12/07/2013, at 5:54 AM, Johannes Birringer wrote:
PS. Gary, were you seeking a counterpoint yourself (on wilderness and listening to nature) when you mentioned Chris Watson's sound recording?

finally: because for the next few days, as most weekends, I'll be residing at my off-grid bush hut, doing bits and pieces of manual work, making field recordings, reading, wandering the heath and scrub and riparian forest, listening to avian biodiversity, marvelling at inverterbrate adaptations, cooking over a wood fire… I've been going there for a couple of decades now, about an hour away from sydney's cbd but without any urban services, and without any sort of connective coverage - no mobile, no satellite - it's in a narrow valley - to get a signal I need to climb 60 meters up a hillside… which I only do for family birthdays really...

but there's 5000 liters of rainwater, a few solar lights, books, tea, and a curtain glass wall... 

so, while materially there, I can't be immaterially here, as my week-long invitation to empyre nears expiry... 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoint is a delightful read - always so much to think about...


johannes - thanks for throwing

simon - thanks for asking

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On 12/07/2013, at 5:54 AM, Johannes Birringer <Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk> wrote:

> [Gary schreibt] >   'we have a problem houston.'
> 
> 
> Actually, we don't have a problem here in Houston at the minute, nor in outer space. 
> 
> When the Apollo 13 crew member reported back to base, he actually said 'Houston: We've had a problem.'
> The transmission became misquoted over time, misused and then abused, for restaurant commercials
> and other things ["Wii have a problem"), and so on. Not sure about the Go Pro heroes....

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