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NEW!
Calling All Agents:
Transmission, Death, Technology (2003)
Navigation
was Always a Difficult Art (2002)
Authorised Copies issued by INS Dept./Propaganda
The
two INS General Secretary’s
reports by Tom McCarthy are now available
again. The INS Department of Propaganda
has authorised a numbered series of
copies to be issued, in accordance with
the INS
Declaration on Inauthenticity.
view
and buy
Aerial Reconnaissance
Berlin
Dossier submitted in evidence to
the International Necronautical
Society Inspectorate
Anthony Auerbach, 2009
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Calling All Agents: Transmission, Death, Technology
General Secretary's Report to the International Necronautical Society
Tom McCarthy, 2003
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INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy's second report to the
International Necronautical Society analyses and maps the
testimony of the witnesses arraigned at the Second First Committee
Hearings held at London's Cubitt Gallery in 2002 on the subjects
of wireless communication, cryptography and broadcasting.
McCarthy develops the themes of encoding, encryption and entombment,
transmission, subjectivity and death, as a model for the INS's
own Radio Broadcasting Network which will be installed at
ICA, London, in 2004.
The Report was delivered to the first public session of the
INS Communications and Encodings Subcommittee held at the
ICA before the press and public on 6 December 2003.
In Cocteau's 1950 film Orphée, in scenes modelled on
the secret communications networks operated by the Résistance
during the Second World War, the hero hears lines of coded
radio transmissions from a dead poet. In Calling All Agents,
INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy argues that this conjunction
of the technological, the aesthetic and the political is loaded
with contemporary significance. He maps the transmission-reception
figure across Freud, Heidegger, Hergé, Burroughs and
Nabokov, the invention of the telephone and the discovery
of Tutenkhamun, connecting it with contemporary artistic strategies
and wireless technologies.
Navigation Was Always a Difficult
Art
General Secretary's Report to the
International Necronautical Society
Tom McCarthy, 2002
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The International Necronautical Society’s founding manifesto
declared an intent to map the spaces that open around the
sign of death in the fields of literature, art, science and
culture; to plot and to follow the paths that lead to these
spaces. It also spoke of a ‘craft’: as the vehicle
to be constructed, and as the practice to be identified and
cultivated in order to realise the necronautical project.
In 2001 the INS was invited to take up residency for two weeks
in the Office of Anti-Matter (Austrian Cultural Forum, 21
March–4 April). There, INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy
received and interviewed writers, artists and philosophers
whose work engages themes resonating with the concerns of
the INS. The interviews (with among others, Simon Critchley,
Rut Blees Luxemburg, Margarita Gluzberg, Will Self, Mark Aerial
Waller) were transcribed and are published online (see http://www.necronauts.org).
Tom McCarthy’s report to the Central Committee of the
INS analyses and compares the depositions of his guests and
suggests future directions for the INS.
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