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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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Ainsi, plus de 230 états nations qui<br />

ont chacun 2 à 3 siècles de cadre<br />

législatif et réglementaire s’annihilent<br />

devant une révolution scientifique<br />

qui abolit le territoire et le<br />

temps. Ce passage <strong>du</strong> territoire<br />

au cyber espace constitue un des<br />

grands bouleversements de l’organisation<br />

humaine, et il est d’autant<br />

plus important d’en comprendre le<br />

sens qu’il entraîne une transformation<br />

majeure de la nature même de<br />

nos perceptions et de nos rapports<br />

sociaux.<br />

Dans l’univers effréné de l’Internet<br />

et de la révolution numérique,<br />

les entreprises doivent se montrer<br />

beaucoup plus protéiformes, capables<br />

de changer de pr<strong>of</strong>il en un<br />

clin d’œil pour s’adapter à de nouvelles<br />

conditions économiques draconiennes.<br />

La <strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>,<br />

quartier général <strong>du</strong> groupe Serveur<br />

et d’Artprice, est selon la<br />

presse économique anglo-saxonne<br />

une forme d’aboutissement ultime<br />

d’une économie plus cérébrale,<br />

pourrait-on dire, dont l’objet<br />

est l’accès au temps et à l’activité<br />

de l’esprit.<br />

Tous les jours, par La <strong>Demeure</strong><br />

<strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> et ses œuvres, nous en-<br />

trons dans un tout autre monde,<br />

beaucoup plus cérébral et immatériel,<br />

un monde de formes platoniciennes,<br />

d’idées, d’images et<br />

d’archétypes, de concepts et de<br />

scénarios.<br />

Un monde gouverné par la logique<br />

de l’accès au savoir et <strong>du</strong> réseau<br />

Internet, ce sont les idées<br />

qui deviennent la matière première<br />

de l’activité économique, et<br />

le but suprême est la connaissance<br />

universelle à travers les serveurs<br />

d’information.<br />

Thus more than 230 nation­states,<br />

each with 2 to 3 centuries <strong>of</strong> accumulated<br />

legislation and regulatory<br />

frameworks are being overshadowed<br />

by a technical revolution<br />

that abolishes territories and disregards<br />

time. This mutation from<br />

territorial to cyberspace constitutes<br />

one <strong>of</strong> the major shocks to<br />

human organisation and it is particularly<br />

important that we should<br />

understand its significance as it is<br />

clearly leading to a major transformation<br />

<strong>of</strong> the very nature <strong>of</strong> our<br />

perceptions and <strong>of</strong> our social relations.<br />

484 485<br />

In the frenetic world <strong>of</strong> Internet<br />

and the digital revolution, companies<br />

must be much more flexible,<br />

capable <strong>of</strong> changing their pr<strong>of</strong>iles<br />

literally over­<br />

night in order to adapt to new<br />

and draconian economic conditions.<br />

According to certain English<br />

language media publicatins, the<br />

<strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>, headquarters <strong>of</strong><br />

The server Group and Artprice, is<br />

the ultimate form <strong>of</strong> an evolution<br />

towards a more cerebral economy,<br />

so to speak, in which the pro<strong>du</strong>ct<br />

is access to time and to intellectual<br />

activity.<br />

Everyday, the <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> and<br />

its collection <strong>of</strong> works take us into<br />

another world that is much more<br />

cerebral and immaterial, a world<br />

<strong>of</strong> platonic forms, <strong>of</strong> ideas, <strong>of</strong> images<br />

and <strong>of</strong> archetypes, <strong>of</strong> concepts<br />

and <strong>of</strong> scenarios. A world<br />

governed by the logic <strong>of</strong> access to<br />

knowledge and by the logic <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Internet network. Ideas become<br />

the raw material <strong>of</strong> economic activity,<br />

and the ultimate goal is universal<br />

knowledge via information<br />

servers.<br />

The capacity to extend one’s mental<br />

presence infinitely, to be uni­<br />

Algorithme

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