> So, could we search for one destiny or in a time of total multiplication
> our destiny is suddenly to be found in other places with/out familes,
> names, ruled by fantasmic images, lost in ourselves, became others?
>
> Olessia Tourkina
>
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Trauma. Not everyone received a blow at birth, perhaps. I am not
sure. For example, the Spaniards who drowned when the Atocha was sunk
during a hurricane off the Florida Keys. A treasure ship.
Rhetoric figures "invention" as a search for treasure. Gold is always
in the story (along with God and Glory). The Atocha in me. Including the
man who searched twenty years to find it, the confusion about where the
ship went down, the manifests found in the archives in Seville, the sister
ship that was lost also, the plundered riches, the hurricane, Florida.
Most especially, the scatter field of wreckage (how the physics of the
ocean acted upon the ship and its contents) and the underwater archealogy
developed to salvage the remainder.
What does any of this business have to do with me? It is a map for
anyone who wants it. A theory of disaster. A maxim for the emerAgency:
your problem has a name (is it ATOCHA?)
best
Greg Ulmer