Out of Place Artifacts

We live in active acres of signs, bridging connections, forging pathways, voyaging far. Is this not the metaphortean pursuit? Following linguist R. Jakobson, there's metonymy and metaphor, the two opposing poles of discourse. On one extreme--the literal and contiguous. The other end decidedly figurative...an abstract mode of thought. "Metaphor does not conform to neat rules and does not follow rational paths," writes Raymond Gozzi, Jr in The Power of Metaphor in the Age of Electronic Media, it breaks away from literal linkage.

Phantoms of the (Metaphoric) Pole. Hard facts dematerialized into phantoms, into particles, free-floating pieces, slippery slopes. Bridged in semionautical explorations. Do the poles exist? Or are there instead previously imperceptible portals and passageways? Oceanic metaphors enveloped the early wireless world, but what lies beneath... in the depths? Strange creatures evolved to operate in otherworldly conditions. Some Hollow Earth Insiders speculate that a geological crack on the floor of Scotland's Loch Ness is a node within an elaborate network of tunnels. An exit strategy for an over-exposed pleisosaur.

There is much to be learned from subterranean activities, media archeology and neogeographic queries. The glitch, if not stylistic agendas, ushers in obsolescent status for an object oriented towards specific function. The glitch reveals the outer limits of media and technology "the world is hollow, for I have touched the sky". Beyond the glitch, access to points unknown? Is this not the metaphortean pursuit? Bring it up to Earth: Glitch as animation: out-of-place artifacts off-sprung from an implied crypto-zoetrope (another philosophical toy). Glitch as post-gremlin. An animal interstitially ambling outside of a machine's presumed range.

Speculative trajectory: timecraft-spacecraft-glitchcraft-lovecraft.