The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar #01

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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• 00:00:00

  Hi everyone, my name is Eduardo and together with Erika I will be hosting the Ghost Lammers of Madagascar podcast. This podcast will focus on collectives and groups that work with political action, with theory production and with artistic practice. We will be looking into a series of collectives that works with these…

• 00:08:52

  But they also... the way that they talk about themselves is full of fiction, right? And then they are already putting in practice... in their writing the idea... the theory that they are pursuing. And this... in this second... Yeah, I would say it's the second text. First you have the foreword, then you have the tale…

• 00:16:12

  And he uses Boros as the example of someone that tried to break away from control, right? Control here with capitalism. Right. Capital C. Control was not simply the word control or the idea of control, but a word control. And in the case of the CCRU, they bring them Captain Mission, which is one of Boros' characters…

• 00:22:45

  So I think that Burroughs might be a kind of example on how we can think on practices that they are not going for unity or for realist presentation, but they are going from this kind of fragmentary way of working, right? We have many examples of montage or collage in other mediums as well, right, that…

• 00:29:30

  Or some sort of civilization key that continues to come along, even though they don't exist anymore. Yes, the Lemur is seen as a kind of revelation for Burroughs. Like, he sees himself as a Lemur in one of the passages. And I don't know, for me it's entirely funny this idea of Lemurs as this super... supernatural…

• 00:35:33

  I just thought now where the separation between technology and ritualism begin. Maybe we need to step behind. When we consider the one God universe perspective, we deal, of course, with Christianity, even though they don't mention in the text and so on. With the historical, culture of science and religion. But many…

• 00:42:23

  I don't want to personalize anything of the CCRU, but Land was trying to experiment with them in some way. He kind of made with this collective a kind of proto-CCRU group. They were two undergraduate of the Royal College of Art, interested in creating things that dealt with internet, with cybernetics, kind…

• 00:50:19

  Thank you and see you in the next episode. Bye.