About Metaphortean Space

The curious gestures of malfunction, fissures of language and on-going accounts of anomalous phenomena are recombined and re-imagined in the Metaphortean Space by primary researcher, Carl Diehl. These curious technocultural critiques officially commenced in 2006, when Diehl began to actively develop associational ‘missing links’ between the production of obsolescence and the pursuit of thought to be extinct and yet-to-be discovered creatures.

Beginning with the beguiling “blobsquatch,” a curious case study for meta-fortean exploration, Diehl has since advanced other inquiries through a decidedly metaphortean lens. The philosophies of mid-20th century anomalist Charles Fort, the phenomena Fort referred to as “damned data,” (recontextualized technoculturally), extended metaphors, the percieved obsolescence of blurry sasquatches—these are all particularly popular muses of the Metaphortean pursuit.

Within this blog you will find a procession of past, present and future queries related to Diehl’s on-going research and development of ideas, projects and presentations around adaptive re-use of residual media, vernacular electronics, the premise of obsolesence, the pervasiveness of network culture and Fortean phenomena.

Further queries can be directed to Carl Diehl  at:  carl DOT diehl AT gmail DOT com