User:Cristinac/unrulyobject

• Jodorowsky's Dune/Fictional Computers/ objects that never existed, but had a significant impact
• the right to be forgotten: removing oneself from the grid
• overlooked media
• theft at Kunsthal by Romanian thieves, the copy substitutes the original
• Duchamp's fountain, a replicated myth woven into popular culture
• obsolete media
• Apollo 11 tapes
• painting a kangaroo when you've never seen one
• internodal: refusing to be indexed
• Kingdom of Lovely: a failed micronation
• 'those missing from the stadium are always right', Paul Virilio 1982
• patents: making reference to objects that may or may not exist
• House of Wisdom/ Library of Alexandria: libraries that have been destroyed
• International Corporation of Lost Structures
• disappearance as resistance
• Quaero: Europe's answer to Google, a multimedia search engine that never existed, but had a vivid presence in the public mind
• Matthew Rothenberg creates a website that deletes itself once it's indexed by Google his code here
• Amber Room: curious attempted de- and reconstruction of a room hinting at its objecthood
• phantom islands/lost minor planets: observers losing track of the planets' positions
• Bas Jan Ader - the artist lost at sea
• Solange Frankort - missing from social media for a week
• Chris Burden, "Disappearing", 1971
• Link rotting

Hito Steyerl

• But what, then, is the state of missing itself? Does it take place inside Schrödinger’s box, so to speak? Is it being both dead and alive? How can we understand its conflicting desires: to want and to dread the truth at the same time? The urge to both move on and keep hope alive? Perhaps the state of missing speaks of a paradoxical superposition that cannot be understood with the conceptual tools of Euclidian physics, human biology, or Aristotelian logic. Perhaps it reaches out to an impossible coexistence of life and death. Both are materially interlaced in limbo—as long as no observer opens the “box” of indeterminacy. Which is, in many cases, a grave.

• Additionally, the twentieth century also perfected observation as a method of killing. Measurement and identification became tools of murder. Phrenology. Statistics. Medical experimentation. Economies of death. In his lectures about biopolitics, Michel Foucault described the stochastic calculus that determined life or death.9 Counting and observing were radicalized to make sure that anything that entered the box died when the box was reopened.

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