RADICAL SUBJECTIVITY

Wilhelm Reichs Connection of Politics and Meteorology

• Saturday, FAC 21 (on UT campus), 11:00AM-12:00PM

Reich published the Mass-Psychology of Fascism in Berlin in 1933, recognizing fascism as an "international phenomenon transcending all the bodies within the human society of every nation". He left Nazi Germany for the U.S. in 1939, where he continued to research psychology, sexuology and to develop Orgonometry. ĘThis research soon caught the attention of the FBI and the FDA, who in a series of court rulings ordered his orgone accumulators destroyed and burnt his publications - for the second time since 1938 in Germany. He died serving a two year sentence in Pennsylvania in 1957.

Reichs earlier works were revived during the sexual liberation movement of the seventies. His late body of work, however, in which he attempts to expand the Orgone-Theory and prove it as a universal science, have thus far only been seen by the vast majority of academic scientists as evidence of a quack gone mad. Two examples of his later work include the invention of the orgonomic cloudbuster to fight desertification and a description of the "emotional plague" which studies the negative effects of repressive politics on individual health. Christoph Keller reports.

A German artist and scientist, Christoph Keller recently reenacted a series of cloudbusting-experiments at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.