GHOST HUNTING AND PHONE TREES
In a duality, there is a mutual dependence upon one another to simply exist, so that a bond is not just a bond, but rather the threads which maintain two beings as one in a way which is productive and necessary. The third element that rises from this is transcendent and unique. The individualism that results from this kind of relationship is healthy and strong.
Binaries, on the other hand, create a limited structure wherein there is no excess room for non-form or individuality or the crossing of lines or the blurring of definitions. It’s been established that such binaries as gender and good/evil exhibit tendencies outside of their own dual construction.
In other words, we have already begun to GHOSTRIDE THE BINARIES in our society.
“Ghostriding the whip” when you put your car in gear, hop outside of it while it rolls, and dance alongside it (preferably with someone else, to create a desired symmetry [see above]).
We’ve ghost-rode our way through postmodernism thanks to people like Judith Butler:
“There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender… identity is performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results”
She got us to hop out of our binary-filled cars and exist alongside them as we explore the realms beyond male/female, straight/gay, etc. A feat indeed!
BUT
NOW
it’s time to start GHOSTHUNTING
If ghostriding involves the detached existence alongside a rejected/reconsidered notion or image or idea , then to me, ghosthunting is entering a space occupied by absences, or the remains of a death.
When a space is filled with lacks of things, or absences, or removals, or changes in ideology, what remains other than the thing it replaced?
A cell phone tower disguised as a tree along an expansive highway represents society’s reluctance towards interrupting natural landscapes with modern technology; an aesthetic death is made by building the tower, and then a remedy (rejuvination of life) is attempted through the use of artifice, only to represent the ghost of the uninterrupted landscape. Our brains and bodies may be suffering physically from this technology as world consciousness has been expanded and lubricated by it. The cell phone tree represents a ghost that continues to fold onto itself as it references multiple layers of changes and deaths and supposed rebirths of consciousness.
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