Interstellar transmission picked up in August, 2005; fragments only.  Translation.  Uncertain morphemes translated in italics.

[BEGIN TRANSMISSION] . . . fundamental concept governing this society.  Once this notion has been mastered, the basic outlines of further elaborations may be sketched out, but only then.   The prototype figure is a metallic form.  Note the potential penetration of the form in a [complex manner?] toward levers [or tumblers and slots], directly resulting is a retraction of impediments to human movement.  Without the particular key set to match the complex path within the mechanism paired to it, there remains a bar to entry, further movement, and so forth.  Every person carries this model.  It corresponds to the only truly self-contained  locking method used in quotidian society, the one relied upon by vaults and safes, the one uncontingent on largers institutions or the actions of individuals, and social mores: yet the one trusted less than many similes, or images of keys.

[MISSING PHRASE] the complement [?] is called confinement in American society and is the nadir of personal power, as much via metaphor as in lived experience.  As has been mentioned the actual number one has in one’s possession is no longer the sole determinant of status and power as we believe was once the case [MISSING] . . . in the extreme, the power of corporate board chairpeople [or rulers] derives from thousands of keys, few or none of which are carried on his or her actual person . . .

[MISSING] pair of prototypes.  The  [?] still employed in wood chests and cemetaries and other gated exteriors; the automotive[?] which is modified by a simulacra of keying layered on it  . . . alternatively one uses radio frequencies transformed numerically in a paradigmatic repitition of tumblers and slots [or levers].  We may call these simulacra, and they are employed in open-architecture [or possibly non-self-contained housings] . . .

[INTERRUPTED] . . . coded pass card, driver’s license, credit card, face recognition by a human sentry, or any number of indexical verifications, thumb print, signature, photograph . . . [which?] overlap considerably and yet each parse a person’s access to new spaces differently . . . entry or debarring from rooms, offices, processing plants, command centers, and so on: this is thus the primary mode of social organization.   So much so, in fact, that any direct consciousness of the  prior existence of the metallic form has been lost here.

[MISSING] brief consideration of the terminology of ordinary conversation, “the key point,” cryptography, “privacy,” fear of rape, fear of being stabbed, the pointing gesture [?] the “key to the city,” and it is said, musical notation and cuisine, a “key to all myths,” a “key to the cosmos,” a phantom unified equation, this all reveals a profound imbrication.   The most powerful figures in the land are recollected as always having had keys even when they did not; experts offer keys to praxis . . . [MISSING] grand meeting of cardinals charged with selecting a new pope [?], the last powerful monarch in this world, is the “with-key,” or conclave, also reflected in Peter’s “gate,” the passageway to mythical postmortem  . . .

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There is no indigenous term for forcing over.  Like its negated twin the key, the forcing-over concept has been so thoroughly absorbed and integrated into daily life by the population that people rarely have to articulate it.  Without it one would become lost in the maze of behaviors constituting ordinary life . . .  [MISSING] Therefore in the first levels of importance, it has been dropped from ordinary language.  Despite a few exceptions linked to patriarchal property rights and thus not strictly subjective in orientation—the chastity belt, the anklet monitor, lipstick—the key has itself vanished and yet been reborn . . . [INAUDIBLE SECTION] clothing, affect, social expectation, and the like.  . . . retains a vague and ornamental penumbra over the body and its openings in space [orifices?], and in time cessation of life. [UNCLEAR] Forcings-over of this key are punishable by any person, even a bystander, by immediate and uncontained violence leading if necessary to decease in order to stop the act.  No one questions the right to violence, even killing, with no penalty imposed for the act in these cases. [MISSING PHRASE] . . .  next level is wider and looser in its parameters.  This is the domain of indexical items (locks of hair, writings in diaries) and bodily adornments, often themselves significant of [?] keys, most often metallic, yellow, small, valued, always worn on the sexual facade; the belt buckle, the crucifix and the Italian horn, the military insignia; as well as . . .

[MISSING PHRASE] lost keys for private possessions and transcribed thoughts, similar to the often still (barely) existing keys to personal spaces: drawers for underclothes, drugs and alcohol, and small photographs or keepsakes locked in permeable boxes, boudoirs, personal photographs . . .  [MISSING] such that ultimately it matters not whether a piece of luggage or a closet is locked [or "close-engineered"]: it could be locked, and the knowledge therein serves as a reminder, should any be needed, that transgressors over such keys will be fought and even killed with the general approbation of all society.  Consider in this regard the lesser importance of triple piston mechanisms of money-storage rooms, for instance, with dual-lock keys.  One might expect the forcing over of such a key to be a terribly punished transgression given the great number of people affected by the displacement of this medium of exchange [?], and the precise machining of the mechanism, but in fact the forcing-over of this third level of containment is less serious than activities on first two levels . . . 

[MISSING PHRASE] the phrase “I can’t,” or “I can,” fixing the speaker in a relationship of indeterminacy with regard to greater spatial and temporal movement . . . response with, commonly, a targeted key-denial: cuffs; collective room-key and house-key denial: confinement in jail, and possibly, temporal limits on confinement with chemical treatment, albeit again with a denial of  some keys, coerced discussions of forcing-over with a psychiatrist who may in time grant further access to keys . . .

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In conclusion, the exercise of power in this society consists at base in the establishment and distribution, or withholding, of ever further keys.  [MISSING] “forcing-over,” as formed in a pair, to repeat, is thus: Key — Forcing-Over, the most important binary.  It applies to all interactions, even between children.   However limited and peculiar to us this form of power appears, [MISSING] cannot emphasize strongly enought that question of keys, licit and illicit, and the forcing-over of keyed entryways, on the other side, is our compass [?] . . . [MISSING PORTION] especially the innumerable simulacra, which are dependent on a given institution for their function . . .  common magentic numerical reader, involving a complex and unseen thread of electical impluse, relies on no fewer than seven institutions in order to remain effective: language, electricity generation, banking regulations, policing, class guilt, generalized sexual desire, and the mechanized labor force.  Once those institutions are compromised [MISSING AND INAUDIBLE] . . .

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