I Hang the World Around Me
4 Text Panels & SF-Exploitation on the Net
Four text panels telling in a short SF narrative of the departure from Earth and the failure of terra-forming on the new planet. In an undefined departure and descent, and with remnants of meaning and textual references we move away from a World as we know it. We breathe in contradictions. The overall context as organ of thought, syntax beyond language, perception as transformed and pulsed rhythm, understanding as a disconnected connection: In a technologized and rationalized world, catastrophes are looming, while people are entangled in pseudo-fights and confronted with EVERYTHING in daily life and also on foreign planets. It becomes more and more difficult to make sense at all. What to do?
Prelude
A picture fragment that circles around itself in a residual orbit of self-knowledge.
Serious Deep Shit
I Hang the World Around Me
1
At first glance, a commodity seems to be a self-evident, trivial thing. Its analysis reveals that it is a very intricate thing, full of metaphysical subtleties and theological quirks. As far as its utility value is concerned, there is nothing mysterious about it […]. It is clear to the senses that man by his activity changes the forms of natural materials in a way useful to him. The form of wood, for example, is changed when it is made into a table. Nevertheless, the table remains wood, an ordinary sensual thing. But as soon as it appears as a commodity, it is transformed into a sensual supersensual thing. Not only does it stand with its feet on the ground, but it turns itself upside down in the face of all other commodities and develops crickets from its wooden head, much more whimsically than if it began to dance of its own free will.
Crickets dancing
Wooden Table Movement
Single human experience
at – minus 273 degrees °
At the edges
of the personal world
Right wrong dance movement
In the impure form-disaster
In the old finely balanced system
Of cultivation and decultivation
In the Critical Culture
of the right-left political dyslexia
in the equation
of the Scuola Recursiva
In the splitting off | reversal
of the Totalia Reversia
How we are thrown into the world, there forward
In the wood-breath, in the flight-unconnectedness
Exploding backwards forward
Like the *F* Benjamin angel
And become the gas-table upside down
Which without any gravity
begins to dance
whirling and spinning
in the gas
and undergrowth universe
Like Reverse Trees
That only want to go away
I Hang the World Around me is part of the Science Fiction Exploitation Nik.
A work-in-progress project, created as a pulsed text on the web (german+english):
https://stwst.at/nik/#minus2
I Hang the World Around Me
2
The mystical character of the commodity does not arise from its use value. Nor does it arise from the content of the determinations of value. […] It is a physiological truth that [the useful works or productive activities] are functions of the human organism, and that every such function, whatever its content and form, is essentially the expenditure of human brain, nerve, muscle, sensory organ, etc. […] In all states the working time, which the production of food costs, had to interest man […]. Finally, as soon as people work for each other in any way, their work also receives a social form. […] Where, then, does the mysterious character of the product of labor spring from as soon as it assumes commodity form?
With mathematics empathy
flying into the future
With the body of the day after tomorrow
Land on the new planet
With brain, nerve, muscle etc
Working on the Symm-Asymm-Anthropology
Push the imbalances from 1 to ∞ 1000
Push down
With high potency electricity
Digging into the untouched surfaces
Using self-efficacy magnetism
Form several 10,000 single-flat cores
In dissolved holes
Eating strong/weak power
In the deep flour book
Starve for basic income
Spill the e°mofactor
While self-fracking
Dreaming of white goods
Waiting for a better to come
No memory
of the work product
I Hang the World Around me is part of the Science Fiction Exploitation Nik.
A work-in-progress project, created as a pulsed text on the web (german+english):
https://stwst.at/nik/#minus4
I Hang the World Around Me
3
How would we express the marvelous ability of a living organism to delay decay into thermodynamic equilibrium (death) in terms of statistical theory? We said: It feeds on negative entropy by drawing a stream of negative entropy towards itself, so to speak, in order to balance the entropy increase which it causes by its life and thus to keep itself at an even and rather low entropy level.
Dark Night Remote
Remote Critical Essential
Drunk Attitude Up
Indifference Immaterial Down
Access Circular Below
Double Mental Metal
Cleats Emergency Light Negative Space
High-End Exit Interference
Understanding Remembering Sleep
Without Words Terra-Forming
Nature Culture Knocking Out
Ore Liquefaction Steel
Sand Quartz Desert
Airplane Blowing away Slipping
Burying Kern Core
No chance to come back to the surface
No chance to come back
Only more high frequency highly accelerated
Everything waltzes in the Large Hadron Collider
At the end fun steel bath kawumm
I Hang the World Around me is part of the Science Fiction Exploitation Nik.
A work-in-progress project, created as a pulsed text on the web (german+english):
https://stwst.at/nik/#minus6
I Hang the World Around Me
4
Thank you for publishing this manifesto. I read that the artists are now dead. Another loss. Too bad about the artists. One has to say goodbye to them. But often what was said about them had nothing to do with what they did or thought anyway. They were interpreted and placed to avoid too much contradiction. Today, we produce objects that create less dissonance.
Sitting in the Nirgendwo
Skepticism about entropy itself
Indirect work
in the interior
Making meltdown objects
from Egomantel reinforced concrete
reverse reading direction
and extract opinion like crude oil
it’s still the content, stupid
and sometimes still go out
Instead of art now
deal with rocks
and anti-gravity
with plants and radiation
increase contradiction
and from brushwood and thoughts
make a TOE
Seize the means of contradiction of
Die Welt ist alles, was Zerfall ist
Die Welt ist alles, was einem einfällt
With the Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
and the Connection with Everything
and the Physics of Relationships
with Beautiful, Strong and Electroweak
settle under the Golden Peak
and personify the system E8
I Hang the World Around me is part of the Science Fiction Exploitation Nik.
A work-in-progress project, created as a pulsed text on the web (german+english):
https://stwst.at/nik/#minus8
Quotations used, text blocks above:
Text plates 1 and 2, text blocks above, quoted from Karl Marx: Das Kapital. Critique of Political Economy. Volume I. Book I: The production process of capital.
Text panel 3, text block above, quoting from Erwin Schrödinger: What is Life? – The living cell viewed through the eyes of the physicist.
Text panel 4, text block above: Nik, the Sleeper. Dream of the dead, unknown artist. Can also be found here on these pages: Nik, the Sleeper.
Tanja Brandmayr, 2022
Texts staged at STWST48x8 DEEP:
https://stwst48x8.stwst.at/en/ich_haeng_mir_die_welt_um
The texts on „I Hang the World Around Me” published in German language in:
perspektive 112 | 113 „golden:spike“, Autumn 2022
Part of STWST Quasikunst:
https://newcontext.stwst.at/en/projects/quasikunst/start