Monthly Archives: October 2014

Upcoming Lecture

November 6, 6:30 – 8pm. Grand Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence (RSVP). “Prosopopoeia as Protocol—The Hale Experiments and Object-Oriented Ventriloquy during the Cold War”

 

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The general problem of deriving information (intelligence, actionable data, orienting indices) from “objects” has long preoccupied scientists, philosophers, and members of the clandestine services. New documentation has recently come to light that bears on this important subject, and a full airing of these striking sources is urgently wanted. In brief, there are now reasons to believe that individuals apparently associated with the CIA may well have embarked, in the early 1960s, on a notably non-traditional program of interrogatory investigations into the secret life of brute matter. Were these experiments conducted in association with associates of the Order of the Third Bird? It seems likely. Further work is needed, but on the evening of 6 November 2014, members of the Editorial Committee of ESTAR(SER) will provide a preliminary research report.

About ESTAR(SER): The Esthetical Society for Transcendental and Applied Realization (now incorporating the Society of Esthetic Realizers) is an established body of private, independent scholars who work collectively to recover, scrutinize, and (where relevant) draw attention to the historicity of the Order of the Third Bird.

Part of a series of lectures and workshops entitled It, Me, You, Us: Close Encounters with Interpretation, exploring varied ways of writing about and engaging with art, with an emphasis on the sensory, the subjective, and the shared.

RSVP requested. Register here.

 

 

Welcome to Communiqués

In view of both the volume of material confronting the Editorial Committee, and the expanding network of correspondents engaging in relevant investigations, and, further, in view of the rapid growth of the internet environment as a new way of extending traditional researches, we are inaugurating this venue in order to:

1) continue and expand our work;

2) keep interested parties informed about current research;

3) offer a site for collective debate, the airing of criticism, and the reporting of new discoveries.

We hope you feel we are bringing the work of ESTAR(SER) into the “digital age.”

—Corresponding Secretary