WIP : Performance

WIP = work in progress. This page serves as a receptacle for ideas for a performance/lecture.
keywords: psychosomatic, sock puppets, psyops, the story of contemporary art

Paul Klee
- puppets
- epitaph
- entartete kunst

Sockpuppetry

As an example of state-sponsored Internet sockpuppetry, In 2011, a California company called Ntrepid was awarded a $2.76 million contract from US Central Command for "online persona management" operations to create "fake online personas to influence net conversations and spread US propaganda" in Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Pashto. The activity was part of Operation Earnest Voice (OEV), a programme first developed in Iraq as a weapon of psychological warfare.

Make Products of Magnitude (from Ntrepid’s mission statement)
We are an unconventional technology company. Our products support consumer privacy, web scraping, cyber security, data sciences, national security, knowledge management, and visualization. We invest heartily in new ideas where we see disruptive potential. We believe that forward-leaning is good posture, that conventional wisdom is limiting, and that our people make a difference.

Gloves

 In an aversion to animals the predominant feeling is fear of being recognized by them through contact. The horror that stirs deep in man is an obscure awareness that in him something lives so akin to the animal that it might be recognized. All disgust is originally disgust at touching. Even when the feeling is mastered, it is only
by drastic gesture that overleaps its mark: the nauseous is violently engulfed, eaten, while the zone of finest epidermal contact remains taboo. Only in this way is the paradox of the moral demand to be met, exacting simultaneously the overcoming and the subtlest elaboration of man’s sense of disgust He may not deny his bestial relationship with animals, the invocation of which revolts him: he must make himself its master.

Walter Benjamin – One Way Street