Projects 01


Low Intensity Operations, High Intensity Subversion
Pól McLernon



This work is part of an attempt to outline through three case studies a non-linearity, which may be read into the products of specific historical processes wrought over the last milennium in the complex relationship between the atlantic island of Ireland and its occupying neighbour. These relations are in many respects a polyphonic laboratory. This thesis examines how both in their respectively unique positions have, in thrall of fluid transformations and relations geopolitically, influenced the idea of sovereignty and its phantoms - through correlative subjugation and the hazardous interplay of dominations in the structures that tangibly and intangibly surround us.

The three case studies are labrinthine : a shockwave in the former Divis Flats Complex in Belfast, the sovereign act of taking a life and the sovereign act of observation, territorialisation and reterritorialisation in the duration of a sniper’s bullet : the four hundred year old reservoir of the privateer’s concern of the Shaftesbury Estate of Lough Neagh, now the hyper-eutrophic microcosm of irish history : thirdly, towards a new nomos, triangulation of the subject, the stastical demystification of the body and the visual attention as objectified knowledge & division of labour., measurement.




                                                                       
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