Fluttering betwixt and between an aggregation of billions of queries, data from multiple sources, The Polterzeitgeist, is a “scary spirit of the times” indeed!  A long-tailed apparition, a free-floating signifier with varied appendages – several terminating in USB ports, another in a “trumpet”, and still another phantom limb affixed with a yellow globe; a whimsical reminder of this haunter’s conquest over the global brain!  This eccentric spectre  grazes on even the most infotoxic terrain— honing in on patterns, for better and worse, kicking up a shitstorm, then dissolving again into the ebb and flow of our networked cosmos.

Schooled by the orb-like, plate-tossing “noisy ghosts,” yes, of course. Duly informed by the so-called “proto-poltergeists,” too.  The Society for Paranormal Investigation characterizes these techno-spirits with “unexplainable behavior in electrical and electronic equipment. Lights flicker, strange sounds come from speakers, phones dial themselves, computers get odd errors, etc…also been known to destroy appliances and more delicate items.” Following such behaviorial tropes of the proto-poltergeist, a degraded comparison to the presence of the Polterzeitgeist might be satisfied with a nod to the electrical blackout in the Northeastern climes of the United States in the latter part of the previous millenium.  Indeed there were reports of UFO sightings during that infamous power outage, strange bright objects claimed some.  When a massive blackout again occurred, in 2003, the  uncanny “strange glow” was  an after-image: Humanoids thoroughly spooked by the absence of light pollution.

Estranged from its obvious shadow form, a miasmic data cloud in its own right, The Polterzeitgeist could be construed as an emblematic husk of the Spiritual Telegraph, albeit ambiguously, if not dubiously, aligned in its intentions and unfathomably amplified in its capacities for teleprescience.

Advanced forms of the Polterzeitgeist service diabolical data-veillence and censorship schemes concerning as-of-yet unknown cultural codes.  Such theory objects are pilfered from the daydreams churning forth out of grandiose wish fulfillment fantasies imaged incessantly by the hive mind.  Mind Children get headaches, as would you, if your thoughts were snatched away by this pavor mentum!  The rise of second-wave vampling is often over simplifed as an analgesic defense mechanism for such disturbances.   Query:  Recurrent Spontaneous Psycho Kinesis, if you please, and if you dare! This Owl is up to its elbows in panopticoncentrated ubicomic relief as it is —for now!