parasitic mutation

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fear/attraction

fear (n.)

Middle English fere, from Old English fær "calamity, sudden danger, peril, sudden attack," from Proto-Germanic *feraz "danger" (source also of Old Saxon far "ambush," Old Norse far "harm, distress, deception," Dutch gevaar, German Gefahr "danger"), from PIE *pēr-, a lengthened form of the verbal root *per- (3) "to try, risk." Sense of "state of being afraid, uneasiness caused by possible danger" developed by late 12c. Some Old English words for "fear" as we now use it were fyrhto, fyrhto; as a verb, ondrædan. Meaning "feeling of dread and reverence for God" is from c. 1400. To put the fear of God (into someone) "intimidate, cause to cower" is by 1888, from the common religious phrase; 

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Parasite

parasite (n.)

1530s, "a hanger-on, a toady, person who lives on others," from Middle French parasite (16c.) or directly from Latin parasitus "toady, sponger," and directly from Greek parasitos "one who lives at another's expense, person who eats at the table of another," especially one who frequents the tables of the rich and earns his welcome by flattery, from noun use of an adjective meaning "feeding beside," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + sitos "grain, bread, food," a word of unknown origin.

Scientific meaning "animal or plant that lives on or in and at the expense of another" is first recorded 1640s (implied in parasitical).

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RECYCLE / RECOVER / CONVERT

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Mask

The mask does not hide the face, it is the face. With the despot, everything is public, and everything that is public is so by virtue of the face. 

Or, as is the case now, the mask assures the erection, the construction of the face, the facialization of the head and the body: the mask is now the face itself, the abstraction or operation of the face. The inhumanity of the face. Wearing a mask can thus be a strange thing: sometimes, more often than we tend to believe, there is more truth in the mask than in what we assume to be our “real self.

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Paris international fantastic film festival 2025

Several years after the impact of the meteorite which on its course to ground burned down the roof of Notre dame, violently ruptured a housing block and killed dozens, EM Industries will finally open its gates at the quai d’orleans and unravel the mysteries around the end of this rocks journey and the start of Elizabeth Murdoch’s disappearance.

After dedicating all that Elizabeth Murdoch was to the research of what she called extraterrestrial life the documentary around her work and disappearance will open this years PIFFF hosted at the now public EMI-Building.

Al Berti the worlds most renowned art and film critic glances at the EMI-building noting:

I go as slow as I can. (1)

Some parts of the old buildings were still standing after the impact, like a skeleton, then they added the sinews and muscles, and finally clothe the bones and muscles with flesh and skin. (2)

The infill is placed between the bones, the openings, and the other parts. (3) An Enquiry of the utmost Difficulty; for whatever that Property be which is so gathered and collected from the whole Number and Nature of the several Parts, or to be imparted to each of them according to a certain and regular Order, or which must be contrived in such a Manner as to join and unite a certain Number of Parts into one Body or Whole, by an orderly and sure Coherence and Agreement of all those Parts: Which Property is what we are here to discover; it is certain, such a Property must have in itself something of the Force and Spirit of all the Parts with which it is either united or mixed. (4)

Whatever the mix, you must constantly knead it until even the smallest particles are absorbed. (5)

While entering the building he realises that this truly is a city within the city

For one Situation and one Space is allotted to an Exchange, another to a Theatre, another to a Place of Exercise, and another to a Temple (6); probably the place Elizabeth lived in through the time she spent in here.

Woe to the Woman who desires to be a parasite! (7)

I think its time to follow the others to the cinema

Wanting the unknown (a documentary)

Research log 1: I want to make something where I don’t know what it’s going to be’. The start of a new work itself, more often than not, is fired by no more than an ‘itch’, a curiosity about something yet to be named or seen. (8) This is my home. It may be the proof I need and I need something, Galaxy knows to awaken the Foundation. (9)

The time and energy to make up new things seems appropriate to such directly empathic situations. (10)

Research log 2: In order to know, therefore, how to conclude many things from the principles proper to them, which is nothing other than having science, it is first necessary to acquire intellect—that is, the habit that knows the principles, which I here would call ‘understanding’ so as to not mix the terminology of things. (11) This lab will grow the more knowledge we accumulate around this rock.

Research log 3: “It seems the walls we built around the meteorite can’t hold the brute force this strange rock emits when tried to approach it. it was a force to be reckoned with. (12) Most of my researchers quit and some already feel sick. This mustn’t reach the outer world.

Research log 5: I went to bed but could not sleep. At three or four in the morning I turned on the light. I took out the impossible book and turned its pages. On one, I saw an engraving of a mask. (13) …I put one on and I was able to approach, closer than anybody before me…I don’t need the others…they must leave us alone here.

Research log 8: This strange voice is still talking to me. Just like the parasite, the background noise never ceases (14).…it seems it knows much more about us, our history and our future than we dared to believe. It seems to know more than everything…

Research log 13: empty

Research log 21: Day 20 of exposing terrestrial life to the new life form. This life form seems to have characteristics of a symbiont…

Or something like a parasite, with which we must negotiate a contract of symbiosis? (15)….I can’t help thinking that they are looking for a worthy life…it must be me.. I need to try it.

Research log 34: I know what I need to do…I have to stop it from happening..

Research log 55: empty

Research log 89: empty

Research log 144: the room with the meteorite is in flames. Elizabeth still not to be seen.

In loving memory of Elizabeth

As the curtain falls a woman in the front row starts to clap, stands up and says with a strange glow in her eyes: “Wow, you never seize to amaze me with your stupidity, now everybody knows. I’m back by the way…

The hall became very bright as Photographers on every other seat flashed their cameras.”

(1) Alberti, The Family in Renaissance Florence

(2) Alberti, On Painting

(3) Williams, Daniele Barbaros Vitruvius of 1567

(4) Alberti, 10 books of architecture 1755

(5) Alberti, On the Art of Building in Ten Books 1988

(6) Alberti, 10 books of architecture 1755

(7) Hugo, Les Miserables

(8) Mieves, Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice

(9) Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

(10) Boradkar, Encountering Things Design and Theories of Things

(11) Williams, Daniele Barbaros Vitruvius of 1567

(12) Steinberg, Gotham Unbound To De Witt

(13) Borges, Collected Fictions

(14) Serres, Geometry

(15) Serres Latour, Conversations on Science Culture and Time

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Braidotti Hlavajova, Posthuman Glossary

These parasite focused horror narratives draw attention to the ways in which humans wish to see themselves as in control of their bodies, their lives and even the natural world, while simultaneously highlighting the limits of this control.

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noun, plural met·a·mor·pho·ses  [met-uh-mawr-fuh-seez].Biology. a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the adult butterfly.

.a complete change of form, structure, or substance, as transformation by magic or witchcraft.any complete change in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.a form resulting from any such change.Pathology.

a type of alteration or degeneration in which tissues are changed:fatty metamorphosis of the liver.

the resultant form.

Botany. the structural or functional modification of a plant organ or structure during its development.

I’ll venture we mean “Kafkaesque” to denote a sense of suddenly inhabiting a world in which one’s customary habits of thought and behaviour are confounded and made hopeless.

mutation (n.)

late 14c., mutacioun, "action or process of changing," from Old French mutacion (13c.), and directly from Latin mutationem (nominative mutatio) "a changing, alteration, a turn for the worse," noun of action from past-participle stem of mutare "to change" (from PIE root *mei- (1) "to change, go, move"). The genetics sense "process whereby heritable changes in DNA arise" is from 1894. The linguist's i-mutation is attested from 1874; earlier was i-umlaut (1869), from German, for which mutation was Sweet's English substitute.

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Elsaesser, Film Theory An Introduction Through the Senses

... certain films function like a virus or parasite that depends on a human host but also starts to lead a life independent from it.

At the limit, film and spectator are like parasite and host, each occupying the other and being in turn occupied, to the point where there is only one reality that un folds as it en folds, and vice versa.

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alien (n.)"foreigner, citizen of a foreign land," early 14c., from alien (adj.) or from noun use of the adjective in French and Latin. In the science fiction sense "being from another planet," from 1953.

alien (adj.)

c. 1300, "strange, foreign," from Old French alien "strange, foreign;" as a noun, "an alien, stranger, foreigner," from Latin alienus "of or belonging to another, not one's own, foreign, strange," also, as a noun, "a stranger, foreigner," adjective from alius (adv.) "another, other, different," from PIE root *al- (1) "beyond." Meaning "residing in a country not of one's birth" is from mid-15c. Sense of "wholly different in nature" is from 1670s. Meaning "not of this Earth" first recorded 1920. An alien priory (c. 1500) is one owing obedience to a mother abbey in a foreign country.

SYNONYMS: incongruous//conflicting//opposed

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