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Opus IX: Abode of Chaos / Demeure du Chaos 1999-2013

Is it to be considered a book? Or is it a magic object, each page of which being an original narrative of the Abode of Chaos rendered in a ground-breaking dreamlike vision. thierry Ehrmann: we put all our passion and folly into preparing this French-English Collector, the book of the decade: 504 pages / 4.5 kg / Square format – Edition bound – 11.8 in. x 11.8 in. and 1.97 inch-thick – includes the Opus IX from 1999 to 2013. A Note to Our Readers All the photographs, video stills, illustrations, handwritings, sketches, 3D modelling images, plans, maps and drawings are all part of the artworks and/or performances produced "in situ" at the Abode of Chaos. The images of artworks included in this book do not cover the Above of Chaos in its entirety but only a small part of it.

Is it to be considered a book? Or is it a magic object, each page of which being an original narrative of the Abode of Chaos rendered in a ground-breaking dreamlike vision. thierry Ehrmann: we put all our passion and folly into preparing this French-English Collector, the book of the decade: 504 pages / 4.5 kg / Square format – Edition bound – 11.8 in. x 11.8 in. and 1.97 inch-thick – includes the Opus IX from 1999 to 2013.
A Note to Our Readers
All the photographs, video stills, illustrations, handwritings, sketches, 3D modelling images, plans, maps and drawings are all part of the artworks and/or performances produced "in situ" at the Abode of Chaos.
The images of artworks included in this book do not cover the Above of Chaos in its entirety but only a small part of it.

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En effet, je suis persuadé que l’Internet<br />

est la métaphore <strong>du</strong> Divin,<br />

si ce n’est le Divin lui-même.<br />

La voix sèche qui illumine La <strong>Demeure</strong><br />

<strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> lui donne le don<br />

d’ubiquité entre le monde physique<br />

et celui des idées.<br />

Lorsque j’ai démarré Internet en<br />

1987, nous étions moins de 50 000<br />

dans le monde mais j’avais la foi<br />

dans la plus grande révolution de<br />

toute l’histoire <strong>du</strong> progrès humain.<br />

Internet est mon univers depuis<br />

21 ans où j’ai fondé Net Nobility<br />

(cf Time Magazine) pour que demeure<br />

toujours, par la volonté des<br />

pionniers, cet Internet qui est pour<br />

moi, le fils naturel de Proudhon et<br />

Bakounine.<br />

Nous sommes en train à la <strong>Demeure</strong><br />

<strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> de participer à la<br />

reconstruction de la bibliothèque<br />

d’Alexandrie de nos pères.<br />

Mémoire <strong>du</strong> monde selon Philippe<br />

Quéau de l’UNESCO, Internet se<br />

joue des frontières, <strong>du</strong> pouvoir des<br />

nations et abolit au passage tous<br />

les régimes hostiles à la libre circulation<br />

de l’information. Cette dématérialisation<br />

de notre ancien<br />

monde et de son économie par In-<br />

ternet crée son empire numérique<br />

sur le parvis <strong>du</strong> XXI ème siècle sous<br />

la forme <strong>du</strong> grand village glocal<br />

(global et local) et chaotique, cher<br />

au sociologue Marshall Mc Luhan.<br />

Ainsi, l’é<strong>du</strong>cation, la recherche,<br />

le commerce, l’économie et l’organisation<br />

générale des informations<br />

vont connaître, en un laps<br />

de temps extrêmement ré<strong>du</strong>it, des<br />

mutations inimaginables. Jamais<br />

dans l’histoire de l’humanité, une<br />

révolution scientifique n’a impacté<br />

autant de gens, en aussi peu de<br />

temps, en tout endroit <strong>du</strong> monde.<br />

Divine, if not, for God him /her/itself.<br />

The dry voice that illuminates<br />

the <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> bestows the<br />

gift <strong>of</strong> ubiquity between the physical<br />

world and the world <strong>of</strong> ideas.<br />

When I began using Internet in<br />

1987, we were less than 50,000 users<br />

worldwide; but I was convinced<br />

we were on the brink <strong>of</strong> a major<br />

revolution that would radically alter<br />

the history <strong>of</strong> human progress.<br />

Internet has been my universe<br />

for 21 years and I founded Net<br />

Nobility (QED Time Magazine) so<br />

that ­ in accordance with the will<br />

482 483<br />

<strong>of</strong> the pioneers ­ there should remain<br />

forever this Internet which,<br />

for me, is the natural progeny <strong>of</strong><br />

Proudhon and Bakunin.<br />

Here at the <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> we are<br />

in the process <strong>of</strong> rebuilding the<br />

great library <strong>of</strong> Alexandria!<br />

“Memory <strong>of</strong> the world” according<br />

to Philippe Quéau <strong>of</strong> UNESCO, the<br />

Internet ignores frontiers and destroys<br />

in its passage all regimes<br />

hostile to the free circulation <strong>of</strong> information.<br />

This dematerialisation<br />

by Internet <strong>of</strong> our old world and<br />

<strong>of</strong> its economy is creating a digital<br />

empire on the cusp <strong>of</strong> the 21st century<br />

in the form <strong>of</strong> an enormous<br />

and chaotic “glocal” village (global<br />

and local) that would have been<br />

very much to the taste <strong>of</strong> the sociologist<br />

Marshall Mc Luhan.<br />

Thus, e<strong>du</strong>cation, research, trade,<br />

the economy and the general organisation<br />

<strong>of</strong> information will experience<br />

­ in a very short period<br />

<strong>of</strong> time ­ unimaginable changes.<br />

Never in the history <strong>of</strong> mankind<br />

has a technical revolution had<br />

such an impact on people’s lives in<br />

such a short period and so ubiquitously<br />

around the world.<br />

Une belle déconstruction des “systèmes”<br />

que l’homme aime s’arroger.<br />

Extrait <strong>du</strong> livre “Honte à vous”<br />

Algorithme

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