Thou shalt not eat of the fruit

The fact is that consciousness is by nature the locus of an illusion. Its nature is such that it registers effects, but it knows nothing about the causes. The order of causes is defined by this: each body in extension, each idea or each mind in thought are constituted by the characteristic relations that subsume the parts of that body, the parts of that idea.

When a body ‘encounters’ another body, or an idea another idea, it happens that the two relations sometimes combine to form a more powerful whole, and sometimes one decomposes the other, destroying the cohesion of its parts.

Eyal Sivan on “The common archive”

Imaginary
property // Intervention #2 has been delivered by filmmaker Eyal Sivan.
He presents "Towards a common archives: Manipulating the enemies
images". Eyal Sivan is a London based filmmaker, producer, essayist and
research
professor in media production at the school of social sciences, media
and cultural studies at the University of East London (UEL)
. Sivan
directed more then 10 worldwide awarded feature-length political
documentaries and produced many others. He is the founder and Chief
Editor of ‘Cinema South Notebooks’ in Israel – a journal of cinema and
Political critic, editor at the Paris based publishing house ‘La Fabrique’ and member of the editorial board and columnist at the French social studies journal ‘De l’autre Côté’. Among Sivan’s films: Aqabat-Jaber (1987 & 1994); Izkor, Slaves of Memory (1991); The Specialist (1999); Route 181, fragments of a journey in Palestine-Israel (with Michel Khleifi 2003); Aus Liebe zum Volk / I Love You all (2004 with Audrey Murion). Currently he is finishing his film "Jaffa-story of a brand name".

La Signorina Bella Morte

PRIMA PUNTATA

Stanza ghiaccio riflette cristallo, luce
immobile macabra e ferma.  Se l’istante mi sfugge io torno, con valigie
su rampe di scale. Un aereo poi rotola via. 

SECONDA PUNTATA

Sii felice mai stai ben attento, a non far arrabbiare gli Dei.
Di soppiatto ti guarda la vita, carne viva ne strappa a brandelli.
Scivolando su un arcobaleno, tichetichetitichetitac… Sembra proprio
la bella Signora, che mi segue porgendomi l’ora.

TERZA PUNTATA

Vedo un teschio e cavalli al galoppo, occhi atterra e bulbi
svuotati. Senza collare il vecchio Signore, cerco gli occhi del mio
padrone. Venerato compagno di strada, che la vita mi sbocci da dentro,
se tu non sarai mai piu’ con me.

QUARTA PUNTATA

Figlia, bambina particolare, tu cresciuta per strada nel vento.
Io comprendo cotanta paura, vuoi la fine di questa tortura.
Consanguineo con gli occhi negli occhi, occhi scuri ed occhi profondi,
miscelando la droga parliamo, e affondiamo la vita nel piatto. 

QUINTA PUNTATA

Che l’amore mi venga vicino, perche’ il sesso mi piace e mi
stufa. Guardo un corpo disteso nel buio, ma nel sonno io sono con te.

ULTIMA PUNTATA

Ora inizio a gridare la mia ira, il minotauro dov’e’?

Io mi giro e lo vedo passare, e invece non c’e’.

Ora lacrime vogliono uscire, ma la vita che e’?

Prendi l’esser che tanto piu’ ho amato, colui che non ho mai salutato.

Se la morte tu senti arrivare, se lei vuole qualcosa da te…

Ora lascia, il mio cuore e’ scoppiato, solo il vuoto silente ha lasciato.

Time Structures

The first Imaginary Property intervention inspired a new thread of
research. As we decided to implement a non-structured experiment, Ted
Byfield, our guest, was invited to improvise on the topic of Imaginary
Property following a very loose and open structure. His intervention
revealed, by the end of the meeting, a powerful new approach to the
topic. Ted started introducing himself following salient events of his
own biography which could inject a reflection on our research; by the
end of his speech, I could draw an unexpected connection on my note
book: there are similarities between systems to define time, so to say
calendars, and domain name systems.

The noise margin

We all use to be enthusiastic about this possibility of copying and
copying and copying. So we all think the copy is just the same as the
original. Maybe the copy is in fact the ‘original’, but how many
originals are there?

Substances and Metadata

Any copy of a file can be defined as an instance of the file entity.
The main idea of Virtual Entity is that, any time a native file is
created and uploaded to the Net, it is possible to initiate a Soul for
this file. The Soul of a file, according to Ve’s imaginary, is the
combination of a set of Metadata plus editable space for information
interchange, not very dissimilar from a wiki. Digital entities are
subdivided is four main substances, that are Text, Audio, Video and
Image. All entities are either natural born analogue or natural born
digital.

Cosmogony

Digital artificial world is structured by specific rules that are
somewhat different from those expressed and manifested in the physical
world we normally experience. One relevant difference is the definition
of identity. Since every ‘singularity’ is reproducible in infinite
number of identical copies, and there is no substantial difference
between copy and original, because the copy of a copy is exactly the
same as the copy of the original, the basic distinction between copy
and original is not relevant, and digital identity is not unique.