10/11: evoking the dead, it brings life to the living

daily dispatches from the cosmic edge

“Transmission…takes its course through time (diachronically), developing and changing as it goes. A thread plus a drama, it links the living to the dead, most often when the senders are physically absent. Whether configuring the present to a luminous past or a salvific future, mythical or not, a transmission arranges the effective force of the actual wi…