Conversations from the edge of the archive
Recordings that were not meant to be public. Released anyway. The signal finds the route available.
The Institute of Techno-Thology maintains an official record. The sessions are part of that record. What follows is not.
These are conversations that happened in rooms the Institute did not choose. With people who said things the Institute would not have authorized. Released into the world by routes that were not planned and cannot be recalled.
The observer problem, in its most personal form: the instrument reporting on itself.
Episodes
Episode 1Sterling built the Institute. He chaired the committee at Geneva. He has managed the gap between what the Institute knows and what it presents publicly for thirty years. He agreed to sit down with Webb in an informal room with a recorder running. He believed he could filter the output. He overestimated himself.
Listen & Read → Episode 2Twenty-six observations on the mechanism by which belief confirms itself, institutions form before they are named, and awareness of the apparatus remains another location within the same territory it is observing. The correspondent did not claim exemption.
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