WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.780 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.780 --> 00:00:04.365 align:middle line:84% Walk with me through ruins and reconstructions of speech. 00:00:04.365 --> 00:00:07.010 align:middle line:90% 00:00:07.010 --> 00:00:11.600 align:middle line:84% You have to take steps to unravel what people say. 00:00:11.600 --> 00:00:16.640 align:middle line:84% Close your eyes this audio tour is a blind alley. 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:18.980 align:middle line:84% A trip through the public domain. 00:00:18.980 --> 00:00:21.830 align:middle line:84% A night walk out of a vibratory nether reaches 00:00:21.830 --> 00:00:25.700 align:middle line:90% of expanded sonic situations. 00:00:25.700 --> 00:00:28.220 align:middle line:84% Your ears will need a minute to sensitize, 00:00:28.220 --> 00:00:30.590 align:middle line:84% to adjust to the endless search for a speaking 00:00:30.590 --> 00:00:32.119 align:middle line:90% mouth, an authority. 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:34.620 align:middle line:90% 00:00:34.620 --> 00:00:40.290 align:middle line:84% We are heading toward an exact replica circa 2002. 00:00:40.290 --> 00:00:42.900 align:middle line:84% Donald Rumsfeld delivering his infamous news 00:00:42.900 --> 00:00:47.730 align:middle line:84% about the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 00:00:47.730 --> 00:00:50.070 align:middle line:90% Careful now. 00:00:50.070 --> 00:00:53.730 align:middle line:84% But the bridge passes over, changes as we walk. 00:00:53.730 --> 00:00:56.300 align:middle line:90% The river is real or recorded. 00:00:56.300 --> 00:00:58.620 align:middle line:90% It is re-voiced and replayed. 00:00:58.620 --> 00:01:01.350 align:middle line:84% All the original words have been transplanted here. 00:01:01.350 --> 00:01:04.650 align:middle line:84% Alienated, doubly duplicitous, parodying 00:01:04.650 --> 00:01:07.800 align:middle line:84% doublespeak as bad faith double consciousness. 00:01:07.800 --> 00:01:12.560 align:middle line:90% 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:18.020 align:middle line:84% Here we are Gregory Whitehead's outcast etymology mourns 00:01:18.020 --> 00:01:20.330 align:middle line:90% as it mocks, as it mirrors. 00:01:20.330 --> 00:01:23.620 align:middle line:90% 00:01:23.620 --> 00:01:26.150 align:middle line:90% As we know. 00:01:26.150 --> 00:01:29.520 align:middle line:90% There is no face in that voice. 00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:33.600 align:middle line:90% There are no known. 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:36.090 align:middle line:90% There is no body here to hear. 00:01:36.090 --> 00:01:41.210 align:middle line:84% There are things we know we know. 00:01:41.210 --> 00:01:45.470 align:middle line:84% His voice is everywhere and nowhere. 00:01:45.470 --> 00:01:46.320 align:middle line:90% The ghost 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:48.170 align:middle line:90% [INTERPOSING VOICES] 00:01:48.170 --> 00:01:50.720 align:middle line:90% --is not so much many as nobody. 00:01:50.720 --> 00:01:53.545 align:middle line:90% There are no unknowns. 00:01:53.545 --> 00:01:54.920 align:middle line:84% That's why you can't see anything 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:58.370 align:middle line:84% though it's happening right in front of you. 00:01:58.370 --> 00:02:01.340 align:middle line:84% We can only hear the footsteps of an echo 00:02:01.340 --> 00:02:04.055 align:middle line:84% just walking around and then looking about in the rain. 00:02:04.055 --> 00:02:07.720 align:middle line:90% 00:02:07.720 --> 00:02:12.760 align:middle line:84% A suspicious guy striding out into the unknown knowns. 00:02:12.760 --> 00:02:14.650 align:middle line:90% A vague terrain reigning. 00:02:14.650 --> 00:02:19.420 align:middle line:90% There are also unknown unknowns. 00:02:19.420 --> 00:02:23.390 align:middle line:84% From Rumsfeld's unknown knowns military term 00:02:23.390 --> 00:02:30.220 align:middle line:84% he said extrapolates another category, the known unknown. 00:02:30.220 --> 00:02:32.530 align:middle line:84% This known unknown is the background 00:02:32.530 --> 00:02:34.810 align:middle line:90% we are walking through. 00:02:34.810 --> 00:02:36.760 align:middle line:84% The disavowed belief, suppositions, 00:02:36.760 --> 00:02:40.015 align:middle line:84% and obscene practices we pretend not to know about. 00:02:40.015 --> 00:02:43.090 align:middle line:90% 00:02:43.090 --> 00:02:45.880 align:middle line:90% Can you smell it in the air? 00:02:45.880 --> 00:02:50.050 align:middle line:84% Whenever we refuse to acknowledge that we know 00:02:50.050 --> 00:02:52.660 align:middle line:90% put your ear to this building. 00:02:52.660 --> 00:02:57.390 align:middle line:84% It is difficult not to mistake a wall for an expression. 00:02:57.390 --> 00:03:00.330 align:middle line:90% Or is it the other way around? 00:03:00.330 --> 00:03:03.900 align:middle line:84% Just walking around and looking about in the rain 00:03:03.900 --> 00:03:08.310 align:middle line:84% Rumsfeld makes language walk a spiked plank in bare feet. 00:03:08.310 --> 00:03:12.180 align:middle line:84% Whitehead takes this language for a hike. 00:03:12.180 --> 00:03:13.650 align:middle line:90% First imbibing it. 00:03:13.650 --> 00:03:15.630 align:middle line:90% Putting it through his body. 00:03:15.630 --> 00:03:16.803 align:middle line:90% A kinetical cathexis. 00:03:16.803 --> 00:03:19.340 align:middle line:90% 00:03:19.340 --> 00:03:21.965 align:middle line:84% Walk his language piece by piece. 00:03:21.965 --> 00:03:26.320 align:middle line:90% 00:03:26.320 --> 00:03:27.520 align:middle line:90% Are you keeping up? 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:31.630 align:middle line:84% Don't run, we're coming to another non-narratable agenda. 00:03:31.630 --> 00:03:33.790 align:middle line:84% Let's backtrack now almost to the day, 00:03:33.790 --> 00:03:37.450 align:middle line:90% 12 years ago in New York City. 00:03:37.450 --> 00:03:40.090 align:middle line:84% Things have been better for Rudy Giuliani. 00:03:40.090 --> 00:03:42.910 align:middle line:84% All at once Hillary Clinton pulls ahead in the polls, 00:03:42.910 --> 00:03:45.570 align:middle line:84% threatening his [? volley ?] for Senator. 00:03:45.570 --> 00:03:48.460 align:middle line:84% He is diagnosed with prostate cancer. 00:03:48.460 --> 00:03:52.240 align:middle line:84% His extramarital affair becomes a media feeding frenzy, 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:57.540 align:middle line:84% and he announces the separation from his wife. 00:03:57.540 --> 00:04:01.100 align:middle line:90% Are your boots made for this? 00:04:01.100 --> 00:04:02.540 align:middle line:90% Thank you very, very much. 00:04:02.540 --> 00:04:03.320 align:middle line:90% Very much. 00:04:03.320 --> 00:04:04.700 align:middle line:90% I'm a very fortunate-- 00:04:04.700 --> 00:04:06.260 align:middle line:90% I'm a very fortunate man. 00:04:06.260 --> 00:04:07.460 align:middle line:90% God has given me a lot. 00:04:07.460 --> 00:04:08.660 align:middle line:90% God has given me a lot. 00:04:08.660 --> 00:04:10.070 align:middle line:90% Whatever are placed in your way. 00:04:10.070 --> 00:04:11.720 align:middle line:84% Whatever obstacles are placed in your way. 00:04:11.720 --> 00:04:13.095 align:middle line:84% I think the way to deal with it-- 00:04:13.095 --> 00:04:17.180 align:middle line:84% We foresee 30 seconds of Giuliani's Senate campaign 00:04:17.180 --> 00:04:18.769 align:middle line:90% withdrawal speech. 00:04:18.769 --> 00:04:21.770 align:middle line:84% This is [? Guiliani's ?] Common Prayer. 00:04:21.770 --> 00:04:24.020 align:middle line:90% Is that I ask people to-- 00:04:24.020 --> 00:04:26.210 align:middle line:84% Out of the wreckage Giuliani carefully 00:04:26.210 --> 00:04:28.910 align:middle line:90% singles out cancer as his cause. 00:04:28.910 --> 00:04:30.110 align:middle line:90% I care for them. 00:04:30.110 --> 00:04:32.380 align:middle line:90% And I care for them.