New Philadelphia is the first movement of the trilogy that begins where the bull-ship lands the white bull that
Europea rides across the sea and becomes the new world. From the first sighting of the Pide Cowe in 1635 to the wreck of the New Era in 1854, the ships of state arrive as myth and turn into the continent itself - a taurobolium bull whose bellowing is heard through the pipes of Nero's brazen device.This is the book the outsiders.of the south translate as the Book of Revelation, from the perspective of those kept "outside the city." The true Philadelphia alone can enter; everyone else remains outside the gates. The veil is torn. The interregnum has begun. Doctrines of reincarnation, karma, and progress are exposed as the final prisons that keep the fallen in line.There is no program, no deliverance, no hope offered. Only the sustained naming of the fall and the refusal to pretend the city still stands.Polyphonic, prophetic, and unrelenting, New Philadelphia maps the completed arrival:and the land as sacrificial bull, consciousness as already occupied, the bridge to countries that do not exist already crossed.This is the ground on which the centaur later takes the White House and the dream is placed under the knout.Refused.
To characterize as literary research the allusions of this fiction instead of as a psychological religious investigation of the interior first Adam, where that most dangerous monster of the deep, leviathan, symbol of the art of AI, is torpedoed by an American submarine in the best tradition of Evangelion killing angels, itself spawned after the holocaust visited on Japan that got Godzilla, yes, and the one on land with it, behemoth, strafed and bombed and droned, gunned by our air force, mysterious as that sounds. the agents of good and evil might like to know. Whether extensions of technology are an equal danger with the primordial beasts in the hunt, that is, where all that technology came from by the way is couched in an account of prospectors camped outside the New Jerusalem to mine the gold in a historical unhistorical leap with the mythic disproportion it encounters, even if it elected Werner Herzog mayor, for if anybody could organize an attempt into that City hovering over the ground it was he. Philadelphia as a metaphor of Jerusalem or any civilization at this crossroad "translation" of "Higher" and "lower mind," identity and anonymity, name or no name, amid a new state of utopian technologies and philosophical mishap when these ships pulled in, built presidential mansions, and disembarked centaurs -- how else can we express the currents and undercurrents of the last years before?
New Philadelphia