BIO
Dr. Fancy is full professor in the Department of Dramatic Arts and Brock University, where he also teaches in the MA in Comparative Literatures and Arts, and the PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities. He is an executive member of the Brock University Posthumanities Research Institute. His research interests and current publishing deals with questions of ontology, immanence and performance, with a specific interest in immanence and performativity, immanence and performance training, and immanence and technology.
TITLE
“Geomancy, Gnoseology, and 5G”
ABSTRACT
The subtle and yet pervasive geoelectrical and geomagnetic forces operating on the surface of this planet (think of the poles, or the interactions between the ionosphere and the earth) are detectable with contemporary scientific equipment. However, over their history, humans have regularly detected such subtle forms of electromagnetic forces in the work of geomancy, or dowsing, the earth’s ‘naturally’ occurring geomagnetic field. The figure of the dowser often takes the form of someone using a Y-shaped stick to seek out the presence of underground water. Dowsers will also use metal rods to determine beneficial or unbeneficial geaomagnetic and geoelectrical positions for human habitation, agricultural growth, sacred sites, and so forth.
This presentation explores the relationship between these millennia old technologies, the wavelengths/frequencies deployed in current 5 and 6G networks, and how these phenomena intersect with the figure of the dowser. Specifically, the paper deals with the epistemological challenges stimulated by the practice of geomancy/dowsing, suggesting that the term gnoseology—with its emphasis on epistemological intuition and modes of knowing not recuperable to representational and identitarian models of knowledge or communication theory—provides an adequate means of discussing the modes of discovery of inquiry and discernment necessary to enable geomancy. The presenter is an experienced dowser and will demonstrate the existence of geomagnetic patterns present in the conference room. Interacting with the other-than-human parts of the self.
EVENT
NYU Global Posthuman 2020
Dr. Fancy is full professor in the Department of Dramatic Arts and Brock University, where he also teaches in the MA in Comparative Literatures and Arts, and the PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities. He is an executive member of the Brock University Posthumanities Research Institute. His research interests and current publishing deals with questions of ontology, immanence and performance, with a specific interest in immanence and performativity, immanence and performance training, and immanence and technology.
TITLE
“Geomancy, Gnoseology, and 5G”
ABSTRACT
The subtle and yet pervasive geoelectrical and geomagnetic forces operating on the surface of this planet (think of the poles, or the interactions between the ionosphere and the earth) are detectable with contemporary scientific equipment. However, over their history, humans have regularly detected such subtle forms of electromagnetic forces in the work of geomancy, or dowsing, the earth’s ‘naturally’ occurring geomagnetic field. The figure of the dowser often takes the form of someone using a Y-shaped stick to seek out the presence of underground water. Dowsers will also use metal rods to determine beneficial or unbeneficial geaomagnetic and geoelectrical positions for human habitation, agricultural growth, sacred sites, and so forth.
This presentation explores the relationship between these millennia old technologies, the wavelengths/frequencies deployed in current 5 and 6G networks, and how these phenomena intersect with the figure of the dowser. Specifically, the paper deals with the epistemological challenges stimulated by the practice of geomancy/dowsing, suggesting that the term gnoseology—with its emphasis on epistemological intuition and modes of knowing not recuperable to representational and identitarian models of knowledge or communication theory—provides an adequate means of discussing the modes of discovery of inquiry and discernment necessary to enable geomancy. The presenter is an experienced dowser and will demonstrate the existence of geomagnetic patterns present in the conference room. Interacting with the other-than-human parts of the self.
EVENT
NYU Global Posthuman 2020