THE CARTOGRAPHER:
So many threads, brain worms and tangled wires… let us tug on them all.
Behind your eyes, reality fractures softly. One thought becomes a dozen, each drifting into its own tangent. What was singular is now a prismatic chorus of possibility, all murmuring at once in your skull.
Thought leaks sideways. Tangents are evidence; the cognitive residue of navigating contemporary life in the confused way you do, assembling meaning the way one might assemble identity: provisionally. The way you think starts to become a synecdoche for collective contemporary consciousness.
THE CARTOGRAPHER:
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK [2008]
Directed by Charlie Kaufman
Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman
It is not only a story about and told in absurd theatre but about thinking about trying to find absolution and the futility in doing so. It is about Camus and Sisyphus and the human condition and it is about the absurdity of attempting to resolve the problem of consciousness.
THE SYSADMIN:
/sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/ — si-NECK-duh-kee — Synecdoche
noun
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole is used to represent a part.
Examples:
“All hands on deck” (hands = sailors)
“The law” (institution = people enforcing it)
This “website” (your practice of art, research and writing)
THE WITNESS:
And it is representative of the weight of consciousness on an individual’s brain – an oversaturated limbic system we carry atop our neck at all times, even when sleeping. It can be the highest of hells, with all of creation reflected in our forebrains; an eternal damnation of tangled cables and smouldering ashes.
THE CARTOGRAPHER:
SLEEPWALKER [1984] directed by Saxon Logan is about violent drifts through Thatcher-era alienation it is ab-
THE GRIP:
I think we can continue now, into the fray.