So
we head
for something invisible
that
will seem
to have been
inevitable
even though
(especially because?) it
won’t
materialize. I
believe it is
wrong
to deny
vitality to nonexistent
bodies.
Shadows of
fish sweep the
coral
dark, touch
tired snails, then
fall
asleep for
a long time.
There
are no
risks to individuals
participating
in this
survey or assemblage
beyond
those that
exist in daily
life.
A crate
is a simple
slatted
case. The
point is, the
fruit
does / does
not keep breathing.
The
point is,
“the unconscious of
planet
Earth is
haunted by a
primal
Hadean trauma.
At the birth
of
the solar
system, deviating from
the
protoplanetary disk
that is to
become
the central
body, a tiny,
uniform
spherical mass
emerges from the
solar
nebula. Within
500 million years,
a
sudden sinking
of matter into
a
dense metallic
core – the ‘Iron
Catastrophe’ –
precipitates the
formation of a
differentiated,
layered planetary
structure, its molten
inner
matter surrounded
by a thin
rocky
mantle and
cold crust. At
the
same time
as this brittle
surface
seals into
the depths the
repressed
secret of
Earth’s ‘burning immanence
with
the sun’,
the magnetosphere is
created,
shielding the
planet against the
coruscating
blasts of
solar wind that
periodically
erupt from
its massive and
irrepressible
relative; causing
the emission of
gases
that trigger
the chemical reactions
that
will produce
water; and gravitationally
securing
the hydrocycle
that will govern
Earth’s
climate. But
the face of
Earth
does not
remain still. The
shifting
visage of
the planet results
from
the combination
of external processes –
climatic
denudation and
deposition – and internal
processes –
the movement
of igneous or
magmatic
fluids. These
two groups of
processes
transform the
surface of Earth
and
shape the
destiny of everything
upon
it. Their
energy sources are,
respectively,
the sun,
and its repressed
runt
sibling, the
inner core of
the
Earth. Thus,
the thin crust
destined
to shield
the inhabitants of
Earth
from its
primal trauma, wears
on
its face
the continually-shifting
expression
of the
helio-plutonic bond.
Water
is the
secondary medium which
enables
the Earth
to remain solvent
and
‘work through’
its internalised solar
nightmare;
but water also
colludes with the
sun
in its
continual epidermal irritation
of
the planet.
If both solar
energy,
driving external
geological processes, and
plutonic
energy, driving
internal geological processes,
are
mediated and
complexified by the
presence
of water,
then every movement
of the
slowly cracking
mask of the
Earth’s
surface, including
the movements of
biological
life, human
industry and culture,
can
be understood
as expressions of
this
Hydroplutonic Conspiracy ...”
wondered why I
wake
50 times
a night … that’s
as
good an
explanation as any …
[Note: Sources: Kazuko Shiraishi, “Travel Again – The Time I Am Heading For Is May”, in My Floating Mother, City (trs. Yumiko Tsumura, Samuel Grolmes, Tomoyuki Endo, Forrest Gander, Allen Ginsberg); Geof Huth, from [Bracket Title] (book 3 of he is beckettt from the book sequence entitled be, comma, to), in Otoliths 17; Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things; Atilla József, “Red Lobster”, in Perched on Nothing’s Branch (tr. Peter Hargitai); Boaz Sunyoung Jin, “Reminder: Experts Librarians in the Philosophy, and language and literature subject area for Evaluating Digital Libraries in the subject domain”, email, rec’d 3 May 010; Francis Ponge, “The Crate”, in Unfinished Ode to Mud (tr. Beverley Bie Brahic); Reza Negarastani (?), “Introduction to Hydroplutonics”, in Urbanomic Survey, ExplorerTMUF11 Hydroplutonic Kernow, at Urbanomic Studio (prospectus for field trip 21 May 010). One could do worse than read RN's Cyclonopedia ...]