Thursday, December 24, 2009

SIMMON RITTER VON STAMPFER STROBOSCOPE DISC AVEC CRYTPO-FASCIST MYSTIC ICONOGRAPHY


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Found the former in this remarkable old MOMA catalogue on "The Machine" (hence the bad photo taken from laptop). For some reason, kept crossing visualwires in my head, between esoteric semi-Nazi and Irminenschaft occult symbols and an early industrial moving image process that, in this case, is used to depict the process of craft production. A black sun of industry turns the gears outward, and the hammer falls...