Worlds of Transcription
The first world is not, properly speaking, a world at all; it is not a chaos, but it is by no means organized by any human measure. The second world resides just off the coast of Man, and just this side of chaos: an alphabet world, made of rainbows and fairy stories, but underwritten by the biggest feelings you’ve ever had in your life. The third world is the world of Man and the law. The forth world is the commentary on the law; the TV ad world of hyperreality and social media; a streaming, scroll world. The fifth and last world is illegal, a Heretic World of lived experience, which is not, properly speaking, a world at all but the countless worlds of minorities—and which is also the first world. Emanations of transcription pass from one world to the next, proceeding in a unilateral direction from the original non-world of the Stranger. The emanating message must be translated for each world. Untranslated messages from the more primitive worlds pass into the normative worlds as pure force, as symptom, as dream, as repetition and as heresy.
Three Worlds (in green), 1955, MC Escher
