Rollo Kim Reporting

Rollo Kim, InvestigaSituationistal Journalist

Saturday, July 20, 2002

It's like we're all in separate cars heading for an errupting volcano, and we all know exactly where we're going, and we don't care, and we're just pressing our feet down on the accelerator…

"Fouinon first gained recognition as a member of Le Solaaris, a group of Paris-based theorists, thieves, artists and activists who rebelled against "conformity, censorship, lies, slavery, fashion, and the tyranny of the Word."

"It is said that the members of the group devised a special means of communication with one another using 'psycoustic' methods."

Anselme Fouinon



"People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats. You can't be too careful. Besides, think of the exhilarating power of listening to others talk when they think you cannot hear."


Leonora Carrington.



I laugh with your mouth. Sleep calls, an impatient, dependable but stubborn friend. We're the same, but everything else has changed.



The Benedictine Father Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti (d. 1997) invented a method of recovering sound waves from the past and converting them into visual and acoustic reconstruction of history. Father Ernetti, a professor at the Venetian Benedetto Marcello Conservatory and Fondation Cini (and director of the Italian Conservatory of Religious Instruction for Men), accomplished his research in collaboration with 12 physicists who remain anonymous. In 1956, Father Ernetti began to investigate the possibility of reviewing the past with a television-like device. In 1957 he began collaborating with the Portuguese Professor de Matos, who was researching the same problem.



Ends come to all good things.


Rollo