In the Spirit of the Principality

Abstract

Post-Net Principality is an installation experience that aims at a total conversion of a space into a temple for an egregore that is born of that communal experience. An egregore (pronounced egg’ gree gore) is a group thought-form. It can be created either intentionally or unintentionally, and becomes an autonomous entity with the power to influence. A group with a common purpose like a family, a club, a political party, a church, or a country can create an egregore, for better or worse depending upon the type of thought that created it. The central locus of the egregore which Post-Net Principality attempts to engage with is composed of three main memetic points: the spirit of anticraft, the insufflation/exsufflation of memetic content, and the memetic consequences of the latter two points. The embodiment of this egregore attempts to achieve this experience through an entirely non-digital, thoroughly digitally adjacent state. Conversely, this paper sits definitively in the upper register of existence where it is removed from the inevitable corruption and decay of the physical world and aims to act as a permanent framing/binding device for the arisen egregore. It is here in the upper register that we may confront the Principality on terms we both can recognize. As a being of this upper register or “meta” realm (the Post-Net Principality) this egregore we created is a creature of pure ideas. As this paper informs you, those mental connections alter it; and so, dear reader, we will see what becomes of this new geist at the latter end of this thesis.