#9 Author Hendrik Jackson: Poetry from Space – In the Egg of Idealism: We Mickey Mice

«The alien is the phantasm that inevitably arises from the stretching exercises of reflection.» Hendrik Jackson (Author)

Poet, essayist and translator Hendrik Jackson has written a text for the Golden Record. In it, he stands on Red Square in Moscow and shoots a giant matryoshka into the sky. A quirky alien might understand the message in this way: «Everything arises from the madness of the ego – which already contains everything in itself.» Or are we simply a bunch of Mickey Mice from another planet for aliens? Hendrik is the editor of the internet portal www.lyrikkritik.de and founder of the «Academy for Poetry Criticism». His work has won several awards.

The reading is in German.

Further links to topics of the dialogue
Purple rose of Cairo (movie)
Ludwig Hirsch (wiki)
Ludwig Hirsch – 1928 (video)

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Welcome to THE GOLDEN RECORD STUDIOS – It’s high time for a new world selfie! 45 years ago, NASA sent its «Golden Records» into the depths of space in the hope that distant intelligences would be able to get an idea of humanity this way. Back then, a small group of Americans curated an embellished selfie for the entire Earth: Photos as if with a retro filter, music between European classical music and Azerbaijani bagpipes, as well as nature sounds in poor sound quality – our as yet unknown alien friends will get a pretty weird impression of us. Fortunately, since the 1970s, not only the view of the world, but also the view out of the world has changed significantly.

In our podcast series THE GOLDEN RECORD STUDIOS, exosociologists, anthropologists and other alien artists put their heads together with us for this experiment to produce new recordings: How do we want to be remembered? How do we welcome alien intelligences? Which colonial structures do we have to say goodbye to in order to secure the existence of the human species? And is freezing after death really the smartest way to travel into the future? THE GOLDEN RECORD STUDIOS are an open invitation to listen in and think along, infused with sounds and music. On the first level, we deal with various questions arising from the Golden Records project. But you soon realise that we are dealing with very contemporary and local issues via the figure of the alien or the message to space.

Hosts: Alexandra Lauck und Lukas Matthaei
Creative Producer: Fabian Kuehlein
Music: Chris Umney

Produced by matthaei&konsorten 2023