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This play has been written using the structure of the classical japanese nô theatre. The main actor is a griot (a travelling storyteller), speaking in the Pakala dialect of creole computer Cant (a style of expression, where different languages are used in order to reflect the globalization of cultural and scientific knowledge), the griot describes the blade-runner landscape of a declining electronic civilization. He is assisted by a Choir, and by Characters of the nô theatre, namely, Waki, Okina, Shité-kata, Négi and Samba-So.
Each scene starts with a headline news and a hand-sign. The griot visits a local area biotech supermarket, which in no-time to think is transformed into a chip-surface syber exhibition hall; and further on, through science fiction as the light of skilfull means, he participates in a Shinto ceremony at the temple of Isé in Yamato.
Past and recent experiences of the human condition are recollected in a clear sighted and to-the-point analysis of a likely future of mankind. In a pre-space mode of twistor-like Syber nô mt-brane existentialness, an alien insectoid civilization, better known as n-user bugs, interferes and destroys all encryption systems operating on earth.
Pre-dator viral strategies of survival; ancient and modern warfare tactics; the teenage commodification of hormonal desires, nucleic acid linguistics, as well as damage control transfer of technology, are some of the topics dealt with in this work. The colorful illustrations, provided by the author, act as metaphors, or fractal clichés on the worship of the illusions of trivialities. Exhortacion Concerning Good Order & Obedience to Rulers & Magistrates is a nôka play.
Author: Claude Philogène
Illustrator: Claude Philogène
Print length: 71 pages
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