Transmission Mysteries: Art and Technophilia

Abstract

he global Covid pandemic with its covert, rapidly spreading pathogenicity of mutating variants, along with the hegemonic epidemic of computer hack-ing and the crisis of worldwide refugee diasporas, provoke urgent questions about a range of transmission enigmas. Long before history and technology, art ini-tiated the transmission circuit. Prehistoric caves housed vividly painted images of wild animals that continue to enthrall and mystify thirty-five centuries later. In radical contrast, technophilia , the compulsively seductive allure of our hyperactive media, continues to become increasingly endemic. Powerful synaptic algorithms incessant-ly propagate synergetic labyrinths of instant information transferences whose interconnectivity and obsessive fission sustain the world while threatening its survival. Ancient cave paintings, like at Chauvet and Altmira, which colorful eidetic of dirt, red ochre, blood, and and bones, undoubtedly served the magical subduing and controlling nature’s treacher-ous chthonic forces. Visual and oneiric, those paintings bridged dreams, imagi-nation, and futurity—anticipating and history. The enigma of how were produced—in deep, hidden, pitch-black recesses or high inaccessible cavern ceilings—remains a mystery. Those proto-artists’ prehensile dexterity catalyzed the frontal lobes of the brain crucial for the development of language.