Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Paranormal Mechanism 2.0

I'm a big fan of technological accidents and malfunctions with audio-visual media because it's at these junctures: a vinyl scratch, a digital glitch, electronic noise overcoming the signal --that the hidden potential of the machine at hand is revealed--- these glimpses, ruptures breaks from official taxonomic structures open up possibility spaces for new kinds of crypto-techno-zoological goings on. In 1921, when a "large upright animal" terrorized a Himalayan expedition, a reporter went digging for clues. In a botched translation of the locals' description the journalist came up with the term "Abominable Snowman." It's believed by many that the well-publicized Abominable Snowman nurtured the Bigfoot's rise in the Pacific Northwest. Born out of an error, a mis-communique and then linked to a growing social web of folkloric debris--personal accounts, anecdotes, fictions and facts. Photographs, filmstrips and shlock tv. As a technologically encrypted animal the Bigfoot surely shuttles betwixt and between the social networks of Web 2.0, a folksonomic constellation of multiple users, and their multiple tagged images, movies, nebulously factual and/or fictional figments and other miscellany in a sprawling, collaboratively sustained vernacularchitecture of information. All assembled from instantaneously available resources to address available theories.

Cryptozoologists Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman describe the workings of a "paranormal mechanism" in their book 'Creatures of the Outer Edge' that they hold responsible for generating appartitions, Bigfoot and UFOs, etc that are then processed through the human brain...what is the bigger blurry picture that is rapidly being conspired by the global brain? and what sort of mechnisms are behind it?

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