About Metaphortean Space

Since 2006, the curious gestures of malfunction, fissures of language and on-going accounts of anomalous phenomena have been recombined and re-imagined by Carl Diehl, under the auspices of The Metaphortean Researcher.  Diehl also collaborates with Weird Fiction, the Video Gentlemen, and has assorted other projects documented here.

Here and elsewhere, Metaphortean Research features a slow disclosure of malfunction and a broad range of formal intervention taking place at the level of image, text and sound.  Speculative theories, technocultural discourse and scientific jargon permeate monologues and statements that are also wrought with puns, neologisms, hyperbole, and other linguistic “glitches.”

The neologized term “Metaphortean” combines “metaphor” and “Fortean,” the latter term denoting strange, mysterious events popularized in the publications of the independent early 20th century researcher Charles Fort. An eccentric champion of anomalous phenomena, Fort collected facts that had allegedly been excluded, rejected, or ignored by established science because they were unexplainable. While Fort focused on the arbitrary borderlines between accepted and denied explanations, Metaphortean Research puzzles the shifting values associated with new and obsolescent media.

Within this blog you will find a procession of past, present and future queries related to Diehl’s on-going research and development of Metaphortean pursuits, projects and presentations.

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