Arriving at the idyllic palace immortalised by The Sound of Music for induction into the distinguished Salzburg Global network turns into a confrontation of civilisations, empire and archipelago caught between geese and gladiators, culture, memory, knowledge sovereignty, migration, identity inside unfinished conversations shaping our world. Sneak peek Prologue to the Salzburg Showdown of EPIC Landscapes and Mindscapes of World Heritage and History. Happy Arrival Day! Beneath the postcard beauty of Austrians iconic Schloss Leopoldskron, deeper currents stir.
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...Defending his creative rights as the original and choice supplier of quills, central to the intellectual trade that documented the march of Western democracy from the Magna Carta to the American Constitution; the West’s imposition of cultural and literary sovereignty from Mozart’s Music through Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Plays over Nobel Walcottean drama and Naipaulian Satire?
He instinctively responds to my unassuming usurpation of the sovereign rights his quill commanded over millennia, challenging the prevailing new audio-visual touch technologies at my fingertips.
He blocks my path, disrupting my enjoyment and attempts to capture this idyll, responding to my ‘in his face’ clicking with his own in-my-face clucking.
I continue to step back in pace with his advance, keeping a steady gaze to his menacing stare, poised as fencer, a gladiator as the Borghese pair behind me.
The seductive welcoming drains from the chill air.
.... These first moments echo of confrontation of worlds and civilisations, and something beyond too, the forgotten primeval and cosmogonic framing we will try to reassert in our futuring the culture-centred creative cosmos as the future ecosystem that embraces human and non-human intelligence, AI, natural and AuthenThink Intel.
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