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Dr Recht: Let’s be careful, though, dio-receive.” His signals are deliberately
Schwarz is always contradictory. In Haiku cryptic and essentially undecipherable,
1, we read: “The quantum Dies Irae leads he is only interested that we receive
to post-organic life”. He uses the concept them, not that we understand them! We
of the end of time as the end of organic are only a means of exploring corporea-
and thus corporeal life. In the mingling lity, which for him, as a heretical physica-
of the sacred, however, this and its op- list, coincides with divinity.
posite can coexist. The Dies Irae can also Dr Mart: This would indeed be confir-
lead back to the resurrection of bodies. med by haiku 8, which reads: “God is
A and NOT A apply at the same time. material”.
Dr Net: You are delirious. Dr Recht: These are all fair observations
Dr Zam: Madness and poetry, Dr Net. in my view, so let me make a point. We
Dr Recht: Of course. That is why its can therefore say that yours is a kind of
exploratory signals, however indifferent contact/non-contact for ritual purposes.
to us, are a form of love. A love-knowle- A superior being, which we could call
dge, however, ceaseless in its attempts, almost transcendent, yearns for our cor-
supremely poetic in its futility. poreality and tentatively searches for it
Dr Zam: You spoke earlier of heresy. You through contradictory fragments, preci-
said, if you will pardon my brutal sum- sely because he sees (in what we would
mary, that Schwarz is a worshipper of the once have called the union of flesh and
body. I would then take the liberty of de- spirit) a sacred fullness, endlessly re-
fining yours as a physicalist heresy, which mixed, something that, in the complete
believes in a spirit in constant search of a discernment of his own totally codified
bodily substratum. a-corporeality, he does not possess: “Im-
Dr Recht: A good definition – insofar as mortality makes me infinite - A different
we bear in mind that his worship coexi- body leads to heresy, as if to sacrifice”
sts perfectly well with a substantial indif- (Haiku 6).
ference towards us. Dr Zam: I think we must interpret, in this
Dr Net: Why should he be indifferent direction, the various metamorphic pha-
and attracted to us at the same time? ses of Schwarz’s face in the video signal.
I know, now you will come back to the The two-dimensionality of the screen is
coincidence of opposites. evidence of his effort to become a body,
Dr Recht: The key to understanding is but the fragmentary and changing plasti-
time, Dr Recht. Schwarz’s sense of time city of the face, which sometimes corre-
is linked to his purely coded nature. In lates with the bitmap fragments making
a human dimension, he comes from the up the haiku, is a further, obvious visual
future (for us) and returns to the past (for sign, of his continuous attempts.
us). His, however, is another temporality, Dr Recht: I agree, but I would like to add
at light speed or perhaps even faster, as something. If Schwarz is pure code, we
far as we know. What if, space-time fol- might think he is also pure meaning wi-
ded in him in a circle? There is no begin- thout a signifying substratum. The body
ning and no end, only mixing, a place of he yearns for could be precisely the ma-
the undifferentiated, of incoherence, a terial signifier to which he adheres, albeit
place of the sacred. Let us reread haiku 5 arbitrarily, his own meaning.
in this framework: “The timeless lethargy Dr Net: A linear argument, for once.
carries the message - Heterogenesis of Dr Recht: I am glad that, at last, you are
the ends.” not criticizing one of my passages. I must
Dr Zam: And may I remind you that in disappoint you again, however. For if it
Haiku 2 it is written: “Scwarzkommando is true what I have just said, it is also true
speaks hermetic languages - The code, that a code is not only a vehicle for infor-
together with the key, force man to ra- mation and therefore for meaning but
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