- The History-Project;
- A novelistic phemonenology is like a continuous simulation of a novel-as-a-system;
- The History-Project was an interdisciplinary art-research project circa 2001-2004, created and operated, documented and now being published solely by myself;
- It included a novel with the same name, The History-Project, which remains unfinished;
- It also included an album of original songs and lots and lots of accompanying text, illustrative of the underlying conceptual system and project;
- It also included a series of Paintings called History-Paintings, which were a rehashing and refurbishment of the original historical paintings or history-paintings in Western art history, in what is called The Western Canon;
- Inside the novel, the characters work on a project ALSO CALLED The History-Project;
- All of the various scales of The History-Project were abject failures;
- The novel was a failure;
- The interdisciplinary art-research project was a failure;
- The project within the novel, operated by the fictional characters, was also an abject failure;
- History itself is in a sense a failure;
- History forever remains unfinished;
- History is the accumulation in strata of Everything that Remains;
- History is the skeleton hidden inside a Great Sacrophagus called Planet Earth, a.k.a. The Historiosphere;
- The impetus for the project was to try to preserve the documentary heritage of humankind, that's what I was trying to do as artist ("cultural innovator") and pseudo-intellectual;
- I had been studying Walter Benjamin's works and decided to Paint the Concept(s) of History;
- This led to a series of paintings forming a great Collection, possibly the only part of this project that didn't fail;
- The paintings are what started the project, and the paintings are possibly what remains most pertinent today, 22 years after the start of the project;
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