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**1** Immediately after passing and for several years, the deceased in Japan
are termed Hotoke. The individual remains Hotoke until the individual is
no longer recognised or remembered personally by members of the house
hold. During this period the Hotoke have an intense personal interest
and power over family affairs and is likely to return at all souls day
in midsummer. Once this period of remembering the deceased for several
years or decades has passed the individual becomes merged into the far
more featureless mass of the household kami.

All forms of media eventually end up being a repository of the dead. At
some point the dead will out number the living in film and audio
recordings.

Films shot over 100 years now contain the Hotoke of generations past, –
Silver bromide salts - films shot during the world wars contain legions
of H0toke that are still reeking revenge on our households for what our
ancestors did or did not do.
The problem with media is we are too used to seeing it as a way to pass information around the living and not as a repository for the dead. We could do a 3 day event with 6 invited speculations then a banquet were we eat our ancestors. [gh]

**2** if the speculations take the form of 6 group activities with invited/open call participants
so becomes geologic also vertical aesthetic of temp. large transmitter and subterranean geophysics
to avoid a vision of some horizontal entrapment in wherever - also around what is implied in "repository for the dead"

a four day openlab is planned to amplify thematics found in the relations between death and technology in their widest senses

speculative sessions include, but are not limited to: an exhumation of dead medias; reading the death-logic of positivism's entry in contemporary computation ((the positivist cruelties of A = A; A is not not-A, to be found embedded in p & ¬ p));  zombies as counterfactuals; [un]dead networks

**practical sessions** might include the visitation to an [un]dead site to scavenge hz/nT data and its dislocation to other sites; the devising and implementation of a zombie network [jk]

(all souls day 01.11.09/10)

**Links**

[[fairy_electric:logic]] 

http://virtualentity.org/thedead

http://virtualentity.org/thedead_graham


see also http://www.deathswitch.com/
jonathan kemp

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