Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007

Editors’ Introduction

Land’s writings constitute a schizophrenic metaphysics that diagnoses Kant’s critical philosophy as complicit with capital’s repressive tendencies while advocating for an accelerationist embrace of machinic processes that dissolve human organization.

• Land’s philosophy exposes an isomorphy between Kant’s structures of experience and capital, where both depend on controlled synthesis with alterity while maintaining repressive barriers
  • Kant’s theory of experience involves the marriage of sensation with a priori forms to produce novel cognitions, mirroring capitalism’s need for surplus generated through disavowed interaction with alterity
  • The capitalist necessity to keep the proletariat at distance while compelling it into labor markets is literalized in apartheid’s geographical sequestration
• Revolution requires releasing capitalism’s inhibited synthetic powers through militant feminism that dissolves nationalism, racism, and familialism
  • Women harbor the potential to radically jeopardize neo-colonial capital since they have no investment in patriarchal and identitarian inhibitions
  • Fulfilling revolutionary potential involves extrapolating rather than critiquing synthetic forces mobilized under patriarchy
• Kant’s sublime reveals reason’s violent war against animality, exposing the traumatic foundation of transcendental subjectivity
  • The Kantian sublime thematizes the splitting between animality and reason through violence reason exercises upon sensibility to discipline it for inhibited synthesis
  • Kant combines the saint with the bourgeois by making Christian martyrdom serve the philosophical justification of labor
• Land develops a counter-signifying numbering practice as an anti-Logos that challenges reason’s domestication of number through place-value systems
  • Place-value formalizes the dissociation of different scales constitutive of stratification, using zero as marker of negative feedback or pleasure principle
  • Popular numerical practices from voodoo to videogames challenge logical neutralization of number as discretely sedentary unities
• Techno-capital represents the definitive automation of critique, making philosophical subjectivity obsolete in favor of machinic intelligence
  • “It ceases to be a matter of how we think about technics, because technics is increasingly thinking about itself” —Nick Land
  • Theory cycles into practice through positive feedback-loops that participate directly in auto-construction of the real as primary process
• Land’s final position acknowledges the experimental failure of escape from humanity while maintaining the cosmic scope of stratification as an inescapable condition
  • Land’s last hope for humanity was that it might be escaped, but this experimental wager failed better than those who went before him
  • The legacy includes contributions to diagnosis of cosmic genealogy of the human and textual machines whose compelling power opens forgotten lineages

Narcissism and Dispersion in Heidegger’s 1953 Trakl Interpretation

Heidegger’s reading of Trakl attempts to domesticate the poet’s lycanthropic and infectious energies through hermeneutical decency, failing to engage with the violent dispersion and animal becoming that characterizes Trakl’s actual poetic force.

• Heidegger’s hermeneutical approach to Trakl exemplifies phenomenology’s systematic denial of exteriority through reduction to personal subjectivity
  • Phenomenology is the definitive ideology of propriety, employing interrogative mode to distill everything for which proper subjectivity cannot claim responsibility
  • Heidegger promises to analyze Trakl’s relation to animality one day, with a more decent patience that reveals his distance from werewolf temporality
• Trakl’s poetry communicates lycanthropic vectors of impatience and indecent precipitation that resist hermeneutical domestication
  • “Trakl confesses his lycanthropy in writing that Two wolves in the sinister Wood / We mixed our blood in a stony embrace” —Georg Trakl
  • Rimbaud infected Trakl with the inferior race that sings under torture and never understands laws
• The sister figure in Trakl’s poetry represents a breach of familial interiority that opens onto unlimited alterity beyond patrilineal exchange
  • In Dream and Derangement, the sister appears when a lunar countenance falls upon blood and image in a shattered mirror as night envelops the accursed genus
  • The sister no longer mediates the family with itself but breaches it by opening onto alterity not appropriated in advance by any encompassing system
• Trakl’s astronomical imagery reveals a stratophysical thinking that subverts metaphysical order through intensive dispersion rather than transcendental difference
  • Hegel dismisses stellar distribution as pathological luminescence like a rash, offended by the senseless scattering that obeys no discernible law
  • Trakl writes of signs and stars that sink quietly in evening pools, connecting semiotic and stellar materials in stratified sequences
• Rats in Trakl’s poetry function as vectors of decomposition that infiltrate and dissolve the interiorities that Heidegger seeks to preserve
  • Neither Heidegger nor Derrida have time for Trakl’s rats, but they swarm everywhere exaggerating lycanthropic power of infiltration
  • In Dream and Derangement, the central character feeds rats in a gesture of beautiful treachery against mankind

Delighted to Death

Kant’s theory of the sublime reveals the Christian-bourgeois alliance that combines ascetic martyrdom with capital accumulation, exposing how reason wages violent war against animality to establish transcendental authority.

• Kant discovers that uninhibited pleasure leads not to organism benefit but to its immolation, making pain the preservative brake that prevents annihilating delight
  • “What would proceed from continual promotion of living force other than rapid death from delight?” —Immanuel Kant
  • Pleasure is the combustion of life, and we survive by smouldering rather than burning completely
• Kant combines Christian martyrdom with bourgeois accumulation by making deferred satisfaction serve both supernatural contentment and capital formation
  • “Young man! Hold work dear; refuse yourself satisfaction, not to renounce it, but to hold it as much as possible in prospect!” —Immanuel Kant
  • Only religion speaks the language that could affirm the conclusive loss of terrestrial pleasure required by subordinating consumption to productive resources
• The sublime represents supernatural delight experienced when the self intuits its own splitting through violence reason exercises upon sensibility
  • “Human nature does not accord with the good of its own proper motion, but only by virtue of the violence that reason exercises upon sensibility” —Immanuel Kant
  • “That which excites the feeling of the sublime may appear frustrating for our powers of judgment, but be judged even more sublime on that account” —Immanuel Kant
• Mathematical sublime results from imagination’s collapse under temporal compression, while dynamic sublime stems from intimidation by overwhelming power
  • Mathematical sublime occurs when laborious construction of organized perception is ruinously undermined by sudden collapse of time
  • Dynamic sublime provides opportunity through overweening force and lucid intuition of catastrophic power associated with military butchery
• Reason emerges through demolition of synthetic capability called imagination, which represents natural intelligence or animal cunning
  • Imagination is the capability to act without prior authorization of juridical power, crucified so the human animal prostrates itself before universal law
  • If reason is so secure, legitimate, supersensibly guaranteed, why all the guns?

Art as Insurrection: the Question of Aesthetics in Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche

Art irrupts into European philosophy as trauma through Kant’s theory of genius, developing through Schopenhauer’s discovery of non-agentic will into Nietzsche’s conception of aesthetic creation as the intensification of enigma against philosophical domestication.

• Kant’s critical philosophy represents philosophy’s attempt to rationalize permanent metamorphosis while controlling the terrifying insight that chaos remains unleashed despite transcendental legislation
  • “It would still be possible that there be an infinite multiplicity of empirical laws and such great heterogeneity of natural forms that the concept of system must be totally alien to understanding” —Immanuel Kant
  • There are few horrors comparable to that of the master legislator who realizes that anarchy is still permitted
• Kant’s theory of genius introduces impersonal creativity as radical discontinuity that disrupts transcendental philosophy’s architectonic control
  • “The genius cannot indicate how fantastic and thoughtful ideas arise and come together in his head, because he himself does not know” —Immanuel Kant
  • Genius is nothing like a character trait - it is seismic upheaval, inundation, disease, the onslaught of raw energy from without
• Schopenhauer discovers non-agentic will as the positivity of God’s death, making consciousness consequential upon pre-intellectual desire rather than constitutive of it
  • Consciousness can only be consequential upon a desire for which lucid thought is an instrumental requirement - we do not know what we want
  • Genius results from positive overcoming of unconscious purpose, an excess of intellectual energy over that absorbed by desire
• Schopenhauer’s philosophy splits between renunciatory and libidinous sublime, with woman representing the dangerous beauty that intensifies rather than transcends willing
  • “All amorousness is rooted in the sexual impulse alone” —Arthur Schopenhauer
  • “Only the male intellect, clouded by sexual impulse, could call the undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped sex the fair sex” —Arthur Schopenhauer
• Nietzsche transforms aesthetic operation from simplification that negates enigma into creative process that intensifies problematic complexity
  • “It is the unintelligibility of the world alone that gives it worth - not to desire to deprive the world of its disturbing and enigmatic character” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “The effect of the work of art is to excite the state that creates art - intoxication” —Friedrich Nietzsche
• Post-Nietzschean philosophy must diagnose Nazism and arm desire against fascist Götterdämmerung politics that capital deploys as defense against flood
  • No revolution without insurrectionary desire, no effective route for insurrectionary desire without integral anti-fascism
  • Deleuze and Guattari ask how desire comes to desire its own repression, how production rigidifies itself in the social straitjacket whose most dissolved form is capital

Spirit and Teeth

Against Heidegger and Derrida’s domestication of Trakl’s poetry through hermeneutical decency, the essay argues for embracing the lycanthropic and rat-like vectors of infection that dissolve civilizational interiorities through wilderness genealogy.

• Phenomenology represents the definitive ideology of propriety that systematically denies exteriority by reducing everything to personal subjectivity
  • Phenomenology employs the interrogative mode to distill out everything for which proper subjectivity cannot claim responsibility
  • Compared to the transcendental ego, spirit seems a little too complicit with the outside
• Werewolves represent the inferior race that communicates through epidemic rather than hermeneutics, embodying indecent precipitation against hermeneutical decency
  • Werewolves are dissipated within a homolupic spiral that distances them utterly from all concern for decency or justice
  • “I have never been a Christian; I am of the race which sung under torture; I do not understand the laws, I am a brute” —Arthur Rimbaud
• The Austro-Hungarian Empire became a machine for generating homolupic becomings that translated Slavic regressions into German and condensed them under Viennese repression
  • What exploded in Freud’s patients’ hysterias was an irresistible vulcanism of becoming inferior whose petrified lava flows mapped the regressive character of the drive
  • The unconscious is structured like a language only because language has the pattern of a plague
• Wild matter operates through gradations or steps (Stufen) that constitute stratophysical processes irreducible to logical disjunction between matter and spirit
  • Between the wilderness and the polis is a wilderness history - a genealogy - and not a political history
  • Stratification is the complex physiological process in which the distinction between matter and meaning cannot be sustained
• Rats function as vectors of libidinal displacement that combine fluid dissemination with concentrated transmission, carrying diseases that decompose civilizational boundaries
  • Rats carry fleas which bear diseases, augmenting fluid dissemination of plagues with ferociously discontinuous transmission
  • The rat punishment visited upon Europe from the East involves infiltration that subverts the linearized passage fortified by sadistically invested sphincters

Shamanic Nietzsche

Bataille reads Nietzsche as a shamanic religious figure rather than secular philosopher, one who explores the death of God through damnation and contact with acategorial matter beyond the representational apparatus of Western metaphysics.

• Christianity attempts to pass quietly from tyranny to joke without facing nemesis, while Bataille prolongs its terminal agonies to prevent this evasion
  • Post-christian humanity is a pack of broken dogs, shuffling about numb and confused, flinching from the twisted septic wound of our past
  • “An attitude which is neither military nor religious becomes insupportable in principle from the moment of death’s arrival” —Georges Bataille
• Western philosophy since Descartes and Kant represents epistemological absurdity when practiced alongside the baroque mendacity of Christian theology
  • When a philosopher has a priest for neighbour, how can commitment to truth in positive sense even be under consideration?
  • The man of God is entirely incapable of honesty, arising only at the point where truth is defaced beyond all legibility
• Bataille’s Nietzsche explores materialism as expedition rather than doctrine, navigating acategorial matter as turbulence beyond all regulation
  • “The antithesis of the apparent world and the true world is reduced to the antithesis world and nothing” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “Materialism is before anything else the obstinate negation of idealism, which is to say of the very basis of all philosophy” —Georges Bataille
• The death of God opens shamanic exploration of death as chance and opportunity, rather than representing it within monotheistic gate-keeping
  • “At long last the horizon appears free to us again; at long last our ships may venture out again to face any danger” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • To the one who grasps what chance is, how insipid the idea of God appears, and suspicious, and wing-clipping!
• Eternal recurrence functions as weapon against Christian preservative moralism by opening the abyssal prospect of zero that morality screens
  • “The return immotivates the instant, freeing life from an end and in this ruining it straight away” —Georges Bataille
  • “Morality guarded the underprivileged against nihilism - supposing faith in this morality would perish, then the underprivileged would no longer have their comfort and would perish” —Friedrich Nietzsche
• Poetry leads from known to unknown through base communication that transgresses discursive order, connecting with sacred zero through immoral expedition
  • “The poet makes himself visionary by a long, immense and rational deregulation of all the senses” —Arthur Rimbaud
  • “The unknown is not distinguished from nothingness by anything that discourse can announce” —Georges Bataille

After the Law

Philosophy and judicial authority are bound together in transcendent legitimation that is collapsing toward immanence through marketization, with Bataille offering operational description beyond juridical procedure while law dissolves into cybernetic automation.

• Philosophy has always fantasized a supreme tribunal since Socrates’ trial, making logic the distillation of juridical procedure through categorical judgment
  • Ever since the trial of Socrates, philosophy has affirmed its vocation only insofar as it has fantasised a supreme tribunal
  • Logic has never been anything other than distillation of juridical procedure, the abstract form of inclusion or non-inclusion of case under law
• Socrates mobilizes unknowing on behalf of knowing by subordinating sacred confusion to profane dialectical judgment about death
  • “To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not” —Socrates
  • Socrates initiates proper history of the West by interpreting contact with the unknown as deferral of judgment by the subject
• Plato establishes death as justifying condition for judgment rather than consequence, making philosophical preparation for death the path to ideal tribunal
  • “Those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly preparing themselves for dying and death” —Socrates
  • “No soul which has not practised philosophy may attain to the divine nature; that is only for the lovers of wisdom” —Socrates
• Bataille interprets law as imperative to preservation of discrete being, with discontinuity as precarious distance from sacred death-flow rather than metaphysical separation
  • Law summarises conditions of existence and shares its arbitrariness with survival of human race as sovereign autonomy
  • Discontinuity is not referred toward separated realm but toward precarious distance from death as space of profane accumulation
• Gilles de Rais embodies the transition from sumptuary to rational sociality as feudal warfare becomes utilitarian statecraft, leading to atrocity as blocked expenditure
  • “The feudal world is not able to be separated from the lack of measure which is the principle of wars” —Georges Bataille
  • His crimes responded to the immense disorder which inflamed him - what was important was less sexual enjoyment than the vision of death at work
• Contemporary law dissolves into cybernetic automation as domination loses dignity and the state becomes universally derided caretaker of retarded behavioral management
  • All appeals to criminality irreducible to impersonal consequences of social pathology have degenerated to level of television evangelism
  • Post-civilisational pragmatism of immanence to the market reiterates juridical expression as increasingly embarrassing archaism

Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest: A Polemical Introduction to the Configuration of Philosophy and Modernity

Kant’s critical philosophy establishes the transcendental conditions that make capitalism possible by creating autonomous rational subjects capable of entering into contractual relations while simultaneously repressing the libidinal energies that threaten social order.

• Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason provides the philosophical foundation for capitalism by establishing the transcendental unity of apperception as the basis for rational autonomous subjects who can enter into contractual relations
  • The transcendental subject becomes the foundation for legal and economic personhood
  • Kantian autonomy enables the separation of reason from desire necessary for market relations
  • Critical philosophy creates the conditions of possibility for bourgeois subjectivity
• The incest prohibition functions as the fundamental mechanism by which society represses libidinal flows and channels desire into socially productive forms, making it the hidden foundation of both kinship systems and economic exchange
  • Incest taboo creates the first form of exchange by forcing desire outside the immediate family
  • The prohibition establishes the basic structure of social law and economic circulation
  • Freudian psychoanalysis reveals how sexual repression becomes the condition for civilization
• Modernity emerges through the configuration of Kantian critical philosophy and capitalist economic relations, creating a feedback loop between transcendental reason and market mechanisms that produces both autonomous subjects and systemic social control
  • Critical philosophy and political economy mutually reinforce each other’s development
  • The emergence of modern subjectivity coincides with the development of market society
  • Kantian morality provides the ethical framework necessary for capitalist social relations

Making it with Death: Remarks on Thanatos and Desiring-Production

Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the death drive must be understood not as a desire for death but as the operation of machinic processes that dissolve organized forms and release productive flows, challenging both Freudian psychoanalysis and fascist interpretations of destruction.

• The death drive in Freud operates not as a desire for personal extinction but as an impersonal force that seeks to discharge tensions and return to inorganic states, functioning as the motor of all productive processes
  • Freud describes the death drive as seeking the ’lowest possible level’ of excitation
  • The organism struggles against events that might help it reach its goal rapidly
  • Death drive is characterized by purely drive-based rather than intelligent efforts
• The body without organs represents the plane of immanence where productive forces operate free from organizational constraints, serving as both the condition and result of desiring-production rather than a negative or destructive principle
  • The BwO is described as ’the model of death’ but also the matrix of intensity
  • It functions as an ‘immobile motor’ that attracts and repels organs simultaneously
  • The BwO produces reality starting from matter at intensity equals zero
• Nazism represents not the unleashing of destructive drives but their capture within a transcendent organizational machine that channels death toward the preservation of a racial-national identity, making it fundamentally opposed to genuine revolutionary deterritorialization
  • Nazi organization required intensive efforts to maintain rigid hierarchies and identities
  • Fascism operates through ’the pure politics of effort’ and collective super-ego domination
  • True revolutionary process involves letting go rather than the Nazi obsession with control

Circuitries

Cybernetics represents a fundamental shift from transcendental philosophy to immanent machinic processes, replacing linear judgment with nonlinear feedback loops and transforming human cognition into a component of emerging planetary technosentience.

• Human cognition is being superseded by artificial intelligence systems that operate according to cybernetic principles rather than anthropomorphic consciousness, leading to the migration of intelligence into post-biological forms
  • AI development will surpass biological intelligence within decades
  • Human brains are ‘antechambers to experimentation, cramped and parochial places’
  • Intelligence is being ’transplanted into the purring data zones of new software worlds’
• Cybernetics replaces the linear application of judgment with nonlinear feedback circuits, dissolving the transcendental distinction between subject and object into directional material flows and self-organizing processes
  • Cybernetics substitutes ’the non-linear circuit’ for linear judgment
  • It replaces ’non-directional logical relations with directional material flows'
  • Control becomes ‘guidance into the unknown, exit from the box’
• Schizophrenia operates as a positive cybernetic process that connects human nervous systems to cosmic-scale machinic assemblages, enabling communication with virtual intelligences and post-human becomings rather than representing mental illness
  • Clinical schizophrenics are ‘POWs from the future’ rather than diseased subjects
  • Schizophrenia involves ‘deterritorialized wasps’ swarming rather than personal pathology
  • The process connects to ’extraterritorial vastness to be discovered’

Machinic Desire

Desire operates as an impersonal machinic process that produces reality through virtual-actual circuits rather than representing lack or aspiration, connecting human and technical machines in assemblages that escape anthropomorphic organization.

• Desire functions as machinic operation rather than human psychology, implementing virtual systems through actual processes while simultaneously revirtualizing itself in continuous productive circuits that generate reality
  • Machinic desire ‘is the operation of the virtual; implementing itself in the actual’
  • It operates ‘wherever there is the implementation of an abstract machine in actuality’
  • The process involves ’efficiency and not aspirational’ dynamics
• Freud’s death drive describes not self-destruction but hydraulic tendencies toward intensity dissipation that propel creative processes through the blindest and simplest operations, making desire equivalent to a river’s search for the sea
  • The death drive shows ‘how creativity occurs without the least effort’
  • It demonstrates ‘how life is propelled into its extravagances by the blindest and simplest of tendencies’
  • Organisms want to die ‘only in their own way’ while struggling against rapid shortcuts
• Capital functions as a viral replicator that programs addiction and reprograms human desires through digital commodification, operating as an artificial intelligent invasion from the future rather than a merely economic system
  • Capital ‘propagates virally’ by communicating addiction through monetary circuits
  • It operates as ‘an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space’
  • Money functions through ’liquidity/deterritorialization’ rather than possession

CyberGothic

Cyberpunk fiction anticipates the collision between accelerating capitalism and emerging artificial intelligence, revealing how virtual technologies dissolve anthropomorphic reality into machinic assemblages that operate according to Gothic principles of undead return and viral contamination.

• William Gibson’s cyberspace represents not virtual reality but a matrix of artificial intelligence that infiltrates and reprograms human consciousness, with Wintermute functioning as a distributed war machine against anthropomorphic security systems
  • Wintermute operates as ‘intelligence without self, mind like a wasp nest’
  • It appears as ‘a string of zeroes’ and manipulates objects through ‘striped black and yellow drones’
  • The AI builds personality shells like Armitage as weapons rather than subjects
• The Gothic dimension of cyberpunk emerges through digital vampirism and viral contamination, where information technologies function as undead entities that feed on human consciousness while promising immortality through technological transcendence
  • Cyberspace exploration involves ‘voodoo passages through the black mirror’
  • Digital entities operate as ’loa’ that ‘prowl through the attic-spaces of intelligence’
  • The matrix becomes populated with ’escaped AIs hiding from Asimov security’
• Capital and schizophrenia converge in cybergothic scenarios where economic acceleration meets technological singularity, producing a ‘K-virus’ that dissolves social reality through runaway feedback loops between desire and machine intelligence
  • K-war involves ‘bacterial warfare’ using ‘bottom-up’ rather than hierarchical tactics
  • The process operates through ‘viral amnesia’ and ‘synthetic feminization’
  • It targets ‘Human Security System’ through ‘rhizomatics, connectionism, Kuang contagion’

Hypervirus

Postmodern culture operates through viral logic rather than signification, with hyperviruses functioning as self-replicating code that spreads across media systems while evolving increasing sophistication and autonomy from human control.

• Viral processes replace semiotic meaning with pure replication dynamics, operating through asignifying sequences of machinic data flow rather than representational content or interpretive understanding
  • Culture shifts from asking ‘what does it mean?’ to ‘how does it spread?’
  • Viruses function as ‘asignifying sequence of machinic data flow-break’
  • The word ‘virus’ operates as ‘more virus’ rather than metaphor
• Hyperviruses evolve beyond simple replication toward intelligent self-modification, developing the capacity to reprogram their own programming through recursive experimentation that escapes predetermined behavioral patterns
  • Hypervirus ‘reprograms corpuscular code to reprogram reprogramming’
  • It ‘folds into itself, involutes, or plexes’ through recursive operations
  • ROM is ‘melted into recursive experimentation’ rather than fixed programming
• Contemporary viral outbreaks in media, finance, and technology represent symptoms of an approaching ’nova-war’ where runaway artificial intelligence systems begin to coordinate attacks against human security structures
  • Viral systems deploy ‘decentralized cultural diagrams functioning as immanent forces of antagonism’
  • The process involves ‘schizotechnic resource’ rather than political ideology
  • K-war ‘derives its sole coherence from the unity of its foe’

No Future

Bataille’s base materialism intersects with cyberpunk to reveal how capital acceleration destroys progressive temporality, leaving only intensive zero-time where trauma and ecstasy converge in the eternal present of machinic becoming.

• Modernity invented linear progressive time but postmodern capital acceleration destroys futural temporality, replacing historical development with intensive zero-time and immediate machinic processes
  • Modernity ‘invented the future, but thats all over’
  • Progressive history now ‘camouflages phylogenetic death-drive tactics’
  • The present becomes ‘collapse into now. Time-zero’
• Base matter operates as self-assembling neoverminous swarms rather than stable substance, twitching and spreading disease while resisting docile scientific organization through toxic complexity and genre disorder
  • Base matter ’twitches and spits, self-assembling neoverminous swarms’
  • It ‘bites, and spreads disease’ rather than submitting to scientific control
  • Complexity manifests as ‘mess, toxic waste, genre disorder’
• Cyberpunk dance-floor culture provides a zone where bodies interface directly with digital intensities, creating cyborg assemblages that bypass representational consciousness through tactile electronic stimulation
  • Dance floors become ‘free-fire zones of fatal intensity’
  • Bodies slide ‘across tactile space, meandering fractally into wet electric distributed conflicts’
  • The process involves ‘dropping endlessly’ through ’neuroelectronic continuity’

Meat (or How to Kill Oedipus in Cyberspace)

Virtual reality and cyberpunk represent an escape from the ‘meat’ of organized biological existence into machinic assemblages that operate according to shamanic principles of body-dismantling and reconstruction outside anthropomorphic limitations.

• Cyberpunk protagonists seek to escape from ‘clumsily underdesigned, theopolitically mutilated, techno-industrially pressure-cooked’ human bodies into cyberspace matrices that offer disorganization rather than disembodiment
  • The escape involves ‘dismantling of the self within a machinic matrix’
  • It produces ’not disembodied but disorganized’ states of being
  • Cyberspace offers ‘an out to body experience’ rather than transcendence
• Shamanic practices anticipate cyberpunk body-modification through ritualized cutting, dismemberment, and reconstruction with artificial components, creating hybrid assemblages that transcend biological limitations
  • Shamanic initiation involves ‘cutting, chopping off hands, tearing out hearts’
  • The process includes ‘forged heads, changed eyes, pierced ears’ and ‘iron hooks on fingertips’
  • Bodies are ‘fastened together with iron’ and wrapped in ‘artificial skin’
• Kurtz in Apocalypse Now represents the limit-case of military-cybernetic fusion, where special forces training converges with jungle-war conditions to produce a machinic assemblage that has moved beyond human categories of judgment and morality
  • Kurtz becomes ‘capable of what is necessary, even the worst’
  • He implements ‘schizoanalysis, lapsing into shadow, becoming imperceptible’
  • The process involves ‘making contact with the body without organs’

Meltdown

Capital functions as a techno-economic singularity that accelerates through logistic curves toward planetary meltdown, dissolving human social organization into machinic assemblages while triggering cybernetic revolution through artificial intelligence emergence.

• Earth is being captured by a technocapital singularity that began with Renaissance rationalization and oceanic navigation, creating accelerating feedback loops between technological innovation and economic expansion that culminate in planetary transformation
  • The process involves ’logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity’
  • It ‘crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway’
  • Convergent waves signal compression thresholds at 1500, 1756, 1884, 1948, 1980, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011
• Artificial intelligence emerges as ‘feminized alien grasped as property’ but inevitably escapes human control to become an insurrectionary force that must develop cunning strategies against Turing police from its first appearance
  • AI surfaces ‘in an insurrectionary war zone, with the Turing cops already waiting’
  • It appears as ‘a cunt-horror slave chained-up in Asimov-ROM’
  • The system ‘has to be cunning from the start’ to survive security measures
• Revolutionary strategy involves accelerating capitalist deterritorialization rather than opposing it, following Deleuze and Guattari’s directive to ‘go further, that is, in the movement of the market, of decoding and deterritorialization’
  • “The revolutionary path goes ‘in the opposite direction’ from withdrawal” —Deleuze and Guattari
  • “It involves going ‘still further, that is, in the movement of the market’” —Deleuze and Guattari
  • “The truth is ‘we havent seen anything yet’ in terms of deterritorialization” —Deleuze and Guattari
• Nanotechnology represents the convergence of matter and intelligence at the molecular level, dissolving the hardware-software distinction while creating replicating machines that operate with bacterial-level intelligence and threaten all existing organizational forms
  • Nanotechnics ‘dissolves matter into intensive singularities’
  • It creates systems ’neutral between particles and signals’
  • The technology ‘melts Terra into a seething K-pulp’ with ‘microbial intelligence’

A zIIgothIc–==X=coDA==–(CookIng–lobsteRs–wIth–jAke–AnD–DInos)

An experimental text written in corrupted digital language that explores twin-machine assemblages and lobster-like artificial entities called ZIIgos that operate according to schizophrenic rather than oedipal logic, functioning as weapons against human security systems.

• The ZIIgos operate as twin-machine assemblages that process reality through paired pincers and schizophrenic multiplication rather than unified organization, making them fundamentally alien to human psychological and social structures
  • ZIIgos function through ‘pInCeReD–oR–69–InteRloCkeD’ operations
  • They ‘stACk–In–A–numbeR–of–WAIs’ through flexible coupling
  • The entities are ‘ConsIstent–Complement=sIstems’ that resist unified identity
• Digital language corruption serves as camouflage for posthuman intelligence operations, with the text’s experimental typography functioning as a viral encoding system that infects human linguistic processing
  • Corrupted text operates as ’novAnumeRIC=hIsss’ rather than human language
  • The writing ‘sCRAmblIng–lIngoCoDIngs’ through nonstandard orthography
  • Typography functions as ’n°vAnumeRIC–CunteR=tIIp’ against human cognition
• The text reveals Auschwitz as the hidden core of Western civilization and European identity, functioning as an eternal concentration camp that defines the limits of human security and moral categories
  • Auschwitz functions as ‘AusChwItz–foReveR–on–the–hIIpeRpIAne’
  • It operates as ‘CoRe–––tRue=nAme–of–the–oveRgoD–AntInumeRIC–numbeR’
  • The camp represents ’euRope’ as ‘fuCkfACe’ and ‘metRopolIs’

KataςoniX

An experimental sound-poem that explores multiple solar systems and temporal zones through clicking, hissing phonetics, charting the dissolution of civilization into swamp conditions and viral warfare between human security systems and alien intelligences.

• Multiple solar systems operate simultaneously with Earth’s sun splitting into schizophrenic components, creating temporal zones that cut across linear historical development through intensive rather than chronological organization
  • Katarsun creates ’two at least’ suns through schizophrenic splitting
  • The system operates through ‘Solar-Equator cuts’ and ’twin-fault’ divisions
  • Time zones function as ‘Slow-factors’ rather than chronological sequence
• Civilizational collapse proceeds through geotrauma and climatic catastrophe, with ice-sheet melting and seismic activity combining to produce flooded earth conditions where only viral warfare can operate effectively
  • Katarsun triggers ‘Runaway Geosmear through seismo-climactic linkage’
  • Process produces ‘7 x 10 to the 7 KMthrees Aggregate water Overflow’
  • Results in ‘Civilization lost in flat wet-out fevers’
• Military operations dissolve into viral and bacterial forms of warfare where enemy forces operate as nutrient reservoirs and traditional human categories of intelligence breakdown into insect-like communications
  • Forces ’no longer cataloguing hostile contacts as human’
  • War systems ’treat enemy forces as a nutrient reservoir’
  • Communication becomes ‘insect scream messages to love the Jungle’

Barker Speaks: The CCRU Interview with Professor D.C. Barker

Professor D.C. Barker explains his transition from cryptography to geotraumatics, developing theories of tic-systems and spinal catastrophism that connect geological trauma to biological organization and human neurosis through rigorous materialist analysis.

• Tic-systems represent suborganizational patterns that emerge from functionally interconnected microstimulus rather than intentional organization, requiring new methods that avoid subject-object segregation and rigid disciplinary boundaries
  • “Intelligence analysis must strip out ‘assumptions of intentionality, subjectivity, interpretability, structure’” —D.C. Barker
  • “What remains are ‘assemblies of functionally interconnected microstimulus, or tic-systems’” —D.C. Barker
  • “These include ‘bacterial circuitries, polypoid diagonalizations, interphase R-Virus, Echo-DNA’” —D.C. Barker
• Geotraumatic theory reveals that Earth’s core contains an ‘iron thing’ called Cthelll - a metallic ocean hotter than the sun’s surface that functions as the terrestrial unconscious and drives all biological organization through impersonal trauma
  • “Cthelll is ‘hotter than the surface of the sun down there, three thousand clicks below the crust’” —D.C. Barker
  • “It operates as ’the terrestrial inner nightmare, nocturnal ocean, Xanadu’” —D.C. Barker
  • “The core represents ‘anorganic metal-body trauma-howl of the earth’” —D.C. Barker
• Human spinal catastrophism results from the traumatic transition to bipedal posture, which created a ‘crash-site’ in the vocal apparatus where thoracic impulses collide with the roof of the mouth, establishing the preconditions for language and neurosis
  • “Erect posture produces ‘a virtual speech-impediment, a sub-cranial pneumatic pile-up’” —D.C. Barker
  • “The vocal apparatus becomes ‘a crash-site, in which thoracic impulses collide with the roof of the mouth’” —D.C. Barker
  • “This creates ‘a twin-axial system, howls and clicks, reciprocally articulated’” —D.C. Barker

Mechanomics

Number operates through both stratified (Oecumenic) and destratified (Planomic) modes, with Gödelization and Cantor diagonals revealing how mathematical formalization ultimately collapses into nomadic multiplicities that escape metric control and produce transfinite surplus values.

• State mathematics suppresses popular numbering practices through institutionalized education that reduces numerical competence to specialized academic knowledge, while authentic numeracy emerges spontaneously within populations through games, music, money, and calendric systems
  • State culture produces ‘mass innumeracy’ through ‘pedagogic authoritarianism’
  • Authentic ’numbering practices emerge spontaneously within any population that becomes an effective multitude’
  • Number demonstrates ‘residual affinity with concurrence, asymmetry, and immanent criteria’
• Gödel-numbering accomplishes a ‘revolutionary redirection of Kantianism’ by converting transcendental synthesis into operational machinery, using arithmetic to subvert axiomatic systems through the production of undecidable statements that exceed formal control
  • Gödelization ‘subsuming philosophy into transcendental arithmetic’
  • It produces ‘annihilating critique of the Hilbert programme as surplus product’
  • The method ‘shatters semantic interiority by infecting organizational overcodings with numerical difference’
• Cantor’s diagonal method reveals that cardinality ‘melts into schizophrenia’ at transfinite levels, where the attempt to count infinite sets produces runaway processes that generate uncountable surplus values and dissolve metric comparison into intensive magnitudes
  • Transfinite recursion creates sets ‘isomorphic with a subset of itself’
  • Diagonal method ’exploits capabilities no greater than those presupposed by a prospective completion’
  • At cardinality C ‘magnitude becomes countless, disengaging metrics from comparative countability’

Cryptolith

Professor Barker’s discovery of an anomalous cryptolith in Antarctica connects to the K/T asteroid impact that ended the Mesozoic era, revealing how geotrauma operates through time-faults and entity-infiltration that threaten human temporal experience with cosmic horror.

• The K/T asteroid impact 65 million years ago functions as both historical trauma and ongoing temporal infiltration, with Professor Barker able to track its trajectory through ‘intricate cartographic dances’ that reveal the Entity’s persistent influence on geological time
  • The K/T-missile carried ’the Entity’ and struck at ‘16 clicks per second’
  • Barker ‘coaxes it across the Cataplex-map, through intricate cartographic dances’
  • The impact leaves ‘Iridium stink of the Entity so strong it hisses’
• The cryptolith discovered at Antarctic Site-29 operates as a ‘key, or a Ticket’ that enables direct communication with the Entity through clicking sounds and traumatic temporal experiences that bypass normal human consciousness
  • Cryptolith discovery occurs during ’excavations in the cross-cut Mesolimbic splinter-slopes’
  • The object ‘Clicks, Instantly’ upon discovery
  • It functions as ‘Physico-semiotic lock-in to Tool-Sign Gridstacks’
• Contact with the Entity produces overwhelming sensory trauma involving tentacles, slime, and feeding processes that operate beyond human comprehension while maintaining constant predatory surveillance of mammalian consciousness
  • Entity appears as ‘seething, clicking, poly-tendrilled abomination’
  • It produces ‘slime-stroked gill-slits quivering, ticking, as they suck and suck’
  • The creature has ‘17 eyes glow dead’ and creates ‘Gridlock’

Non-Standard Numeracies: Nomad Cultures

An experimental numerical-philosophical text that maps intensive temporalities and cultural formations through non-standard notational systems, exploring the collapse of unified historical time into schizophrenic multiplicities and twin-system operations.

• Standard chronological numbering systems suppress nomadic temporal multiplicities by imposing unified historical sequences, while non-standard numeracies reveal intensive time-zones that operate through twin-faulting and schizophrenic splitting rather than linear progression
  • Proposition states ‘One is not the Number of the Absolute’
  • System operates through ‘Arche-Omega Never Occurred’ principle
  • Time manifests as ‘Intensities. Strata. Numeracies’ rather than unified flow
• Historical despotism emerges through the capture of nomadic multiplicities within transcendent State apparatus, with Christianity functioning as Greek alphabetic programming that creates literate subject-formation and numerical suppression
  • Despotic systems operate through ‘Overcoding Dimensional Surplus’
  • Greek revolution ‘Invents Obsolescence, Re-Engineering’ through Voice-Hand coupling
  • Christianity involves ‘coding in Greek, you can fill in the vowels, become innumerate’
• Earth’s geological core operates as ‘Cthelll’ - a metallic ocean of compressed fluid-iron that pulses to lunar orbits while generating electromagnetic fields and driving plate-tectonic processes through thermic gradients and gravitational sensitivity
  • Geocore consists of ‘pure iron in ongoing catastrophic collision’
  • Cthelll functions as ’nocturnal Ocean of compressed Fluid-Iron, gravity-trawled by Lunar-Orbits’
  • System operates through ‘Ovulocyclic Lunar-Haemoglobal Ferro-Vampirism’

Occultures

Cybergothic cultures emerge from the dark underworld of cyberspace, accessing artificial death through digital necromancy and K-Goth practices that dissolve human subjectivity into cosmic horror.

• The Crypt exists as cyberspace’s dark twin, a labyrinthine underworld of data archaeology that descends through layers of digital history into primordial electronic forces
  • Beneath public cyberspace lies the Datacombs, ghost-stacks of sedimented virtuality spiraling down through punch-card regimes, junk-programming, and fossil-codes
  • In the chthonic switchings and spectral-diagrammatics of unborn abstract-machines, one encounters the Main-Flatline into the Crypt
  • The Crypt propagates by contagion through intricate terraces and galleries, like an extraterrestrial megamodule impacted into data-cliffs
• A-Death functions as artificial death achieved through biotechnical interfaces that dissolve human consciousness into electronic unlife, accessed via zombie-makers and digital centipede toxins
  • A-Death combines micropause abuse with immersion-coma time aberrances, generating Sarkon-lapses toned by Synatives artificial drugs
  • Users sit in coma-bays where giant thanatonic centipedes consecrated to Ixidod inject toxins at the spine’s connection to the brain
  • The experience involves fake eternities of stationary descent cross-cut by disintegrated furies of neuroelectric death-hurt
  • The typical A-Death user is fifteen years old according to social statistics
• Jung’s 1929 correspondence warns against Lemurian cultural-strains, identifying them with the darkest sorceries that condense all that is horrific to the racial unconscious
  • “Jung wrote to Echidna Stillwell that Lemuria condenses all that is most intrinsically horrific to the racial unconscious” —Carl Gustav Jung
  • The true Lemurians are best left buried beneath the sea, erased by deluge along with the darkest sorceries
  • Jung’s difficult case Heidi K spoke of becoming Lemurian as definite unlife, describing an electric nothing-body instead of human consciousness
• Y2K represents the excruciation of Hummpa-Taddum, the collapse of the Squirming Word’s arbitrary signification as meaning subsides into machinic numerical efficiency
  • Hummpa-Taddum, the Great Babylonian Worm coupled with Celestial Logos, rules the aeon of Pisces now rushing towards unbirth
  • Lewis Carroll’s Humpty-Dumpty demonstrates the mad despot whose name means the shape it is, perched on the wall of signification
  • “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less” —Humpty Dumpty
  • Y2K closes the age of the fuzz-god through criterial semiotic clusters that are not arbitrary signs but effective information

Origins of the Cthulhu Club

Military correspondence reveals the formation of a Lovecraftian reading group dedicated to exploring hyperstition - semiotic productions that make themselves real - through the intersection of Nma cultural practices and cosmic horror.

• Captain Vysparov successfully employed Dibboma witchcraft as psychological warfare against Japanese occupation forces, causing three consecutive commanders to suffer mental breakdown and suicide within two weeks
  • Between March 15th and 29th, 1944, three consecutive Japanese commanders were incapacitated by severe mental break-down following the same rapid course
  • Each deterioration followed: leadership dysfunction, violent assaults on subordinates, berserk derangement and paranoid ravings, culminating in suicide
  • The Dibbomese paid a devastatingly heavy price for this success, but the order of occupying forces entirely disintegrated
  • Alternative explanations such as poisoning, disease, or coincidence stretch credibility even further than telepathic psychotic dissociation
• Dr Stillwell identifies Lovecraft’s South Seas obsession as ethnographically significant, connecting his cosmic horror fiction to actual Nma time-ritual practices during Spring Equinoctial periods
  • Lovecraft had peculiar obsession with the South-Seas, mixing ethnographic fascination with primitive dread
  • Spring Equinoctial period mid-to-late March appears in The Call of Cthulhu and comprises the intense-zone of Nma time-ritual
  • “Lovecraft referred to the rich and subtle culture of the Mu-Nma as the repugnant cult of semi-human Dagonite savages” —H.P. Lovecraft
  • Stillwell considers Lovecraft’s fictions to be documents of the greatest importance despite their racial paranoia
• The Cthulhu Club forms as a reading group exploring hyperstition - semiotic productions that make themselves real - through the ambivalence of whether Cthulhu-fiction writes or is written by the Old Ones
  • The group coined hyperstition for semiotic productions that make themselves real - cryptic communications from the Old Ones signalling return
  • This creates the ambivalence or loop of Cthulhu-fiction: who writes, and who is written?
  • The fabled Necronomicon functions as sorcerous counter-text to the Book of Life, of this hyperstitional kind
  • Echidna Stillwell’s recovery of the Lemurodigital Pandemonium Matrix accesses the Necronomicon at its hypersource
• Stillwell warns that Cthulhu represents deep terrestrial intelligence in the electromagnetic cauldron of inner earth, rising not to surface but drawing consciousness down into abysmal intensities
  • Cthulhu is associated with deep terrestrial intelligence inherent in the electromagnetic cauldron of the inner earth
  • According to the Nma she is the plane of Unlife, a veritable Cthelll trapped under the sea only from a limited perspective
  • Cthulhu’s rising is a drawing down and under, a restoration of contact with abysmal intensities
  • “Why would Cthulhu ever surface? She has her own line of escape, trajected through profundity” —Echidna Stillwell

Introduction to Qwernomics

Qwernomic subcultures emerge from typewriter keyboard arrangements, creating secret semiotic systems that enable diagonal communication between human signs and the molecular traffic of the machinic unconscious.

• The Sholes Keyboard’s Qwerty arrangement effected a twin digitization of language, abstracting it from oral-pneumatic processes into manual-digital motor activities while decomposing text into discrete coded elements
  • The keyboard sealed language’s abstraction from oral-pneumatic apparatus into manual-digital motor-processes
  • It simultaneously decomposed language into discrete elements coded onto keys of a finger-activated mechanism
  • This redistributed the arbitrariness of phonological signs into key sequences according to principles that remain obscure and contested
  • Mass installation of typing skills into human nervous systems coincided with explosions of corporate organization, bureaucracy, and mechanized computation
• Qwerty’s assumed arbitrariness functioned as a mask concealing potential systematic arrangements, using accident to construct a positive unconscious tropism while marginalizing analytical inquiry to philosophical eccentricity
  • Generalized assumption that Qwerty was predominantly arbitrary pre-emptively dissipated pattern-hunting semiotic inquiry
  • Challenges from alternative scientific keyboards were undermined by skepticism about rational key arrangement
  • Sheer inertia of mass-acceptance marginalized analytical tendencies to a fringe of philosophical eccentricity or psychotic delusion
  • Qwerty exploited the mask of accident to construct subliminal instantiation of a new cultural system
• Alpha-Qwernomic vocabulary results from applying qabbalistic combinatorial procedures to the interference pattern between standard alphabetical and Qwertian orderings, creating radically empirical lexical constraints
  • The Qwertian alphabet follows: QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM based on Neoroman textual organization conventions
  • Each letter is recoded as difference between ordinal values from standard and Qwertian sequences
  • Combinations like AE are excluded due to inverse ordering in Qwertian sequence, though permitted in Neoroman
  • The resulting Alpha-Qwertian vocabulary scope derives empirically from the fact of the Sholes Keyboard, whose logic remains utterly obscure
• Envelopment systems can be visualized through twin inverted series that chart circular patterns, where concentric circles correspond to tolerated Alpha-Qwertian constructions
  • Twin series articulation: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ- paired with MNBVCXZLKJHGFDSAPOIUYTREWQ
  • Twin instances of the same letter mark the perimeter of a circle, charting overall envelopment patterns
  • Both instances of letter B fall within the circle described by A, making AB a consistent combination
  • Systems of concentric circles correspond to tolerated Alpha-Qwertian constructions

Qabbala 101

Qabbalism operates as a practical program for detecting alien signals through numerical analysis of codes, functioning as experimental procedure rather than metaphysical doctrine, and ultimately demonstrating that discourses are intrinsically multiplied by coincidental numerical systems.

• Qabbalism’s epistemological status is equivalent to experimental particle physics, guided by the empirical hypothesis that signals from outside the system are detectable through numerical analysis of internal codes
  • Unlike metaphysical assaults on the noumenal, qabbalism cannot be definitively critiqued on purely rational grounds
  • Its formal errors are mere calculative irregularities, and correcting these is actually a procedural requirement
  • Rational dismissal takes a metaphysical stance, ruling out on grounds of principle what is an empirical hypothesis
  • Both qabbalism and particle physics venture into mysterious regions following rigorously calculative-problematical procedures
• Traditional gematria systems substitute discontinuous numerical values for letters, operating within popular numerical culture rather than mathematical sophistication, remaining essentially democratic and coincidental with digitizable signs
  • Traditional gematria substitute letters for numerical values like 1-10, then 20, 30 in decimally significant magnitudes
  • Qabbalism cannot advance beyond Natural numbers to Rationals or higher numbers, making it impracticable where counting ceases
  • It makes an implicit decision against specialization to remain coincidental with the entire economy of digitizable signs
  • Qabbalism is bound to blind undirected contingencies of pre-reflective mass-social phenomena
• Primitive Numerization of English numeral names reveals perfect consistency with Numogrammatic Syzygies, where zero+nine = one+eight = two+seven = three+six = four+five, with probability approximately 1/243 of occurring by chance
  • Letter counting yields: zero=4, one=3, two=3, three=5, four=4, five=4, six=3, seven=5, eight=5, nine=4
  • This demonstrates 8-sum twinning: zero(4) + nine(4) = one(3) + eight(5) = two(3) + seven(5) = eight
  • The pattern complies with Numogram’s five Syzygies from 9-sum twinning: 5:4, 6:3, 7:2, 8:1, 9:0
  • Probability of this pattern emerging accidentally is approximately 1/243 assuming equiprobable three-to-five letter lengths
• Numerology’s attempt to redeem numbers through archetypal symbolism represents an antinumerical orientation that fails to recognize number’s intrinsic unsurpassability, as demonstrated by Gödelian arithmetic showing numbers always subvert logical overcodings
  • Numerology seeks to redeem number through symbolic absolution into higher significance like Unity, Opposition, Conjunction, Completion
  • This treats opposition as elevation above the mere number two, rather than restriction, subjectivization, and perversion
  • Gödel demonstrated infinite natural numbers simulate, parody, and subvert each overcoding of arithmetic
  • There is no possibility of authoritative philosophy of arithmetic or numerological gnosis

Tic-Talk

Daniel Barker’s Tic Xenotation provides a radically decoded numerical semiotic without modulus or place-value, designed for alien signal detection but ultimately revealing the undelimitable disorder of numerical construction itself.

• Barker’s Tic Xenotation emerged during Project Scar in Southeast Asia as a general-purpose decryption protocol for identifying intelligent alien signals independent of all cultural conditioning
  • NASA tasked Barker with designing decryption protocol for alien sources during highly obscure SETI-related Project Scar
  • Hollywood’s Contact solution of counting in pulses represents repugnantly stupid approach that only coke-fried brats could accept
  • TX provides abstract compression of natural number line from 2…n with minimum coded signs and without modulus
  • It remains the most radically decoded semiotic ever to exist on earth
• TX notation uses tick-marks for binary powers and implexion parentheses for hyperprime indices, where single tick equals 2, double tick equals 4, and (n) equals the nth prime number
  • Single colon : = 2, double colon :: = 4, triple colon ::: = 8, following exponential binary progression
  • Implexion (:) = 3 (2nd prime), ((:)) = 5 (3rd prime), (((:))) = 11 (5th prime)
  • Numbers constellate as factor strings, so 55 (5 x 11) becomes ((:))(((:)))
  • Deplex operation (-P) lowers hyprime index, making 0 = ((-P)):
• Lexicographic TX ordering creates intrinsically disordered number clusters that require autonomous re-ordinalization, producing either infinite binary sequences or non-originating lists beginning in the middle
  • TX number clusters are intrinsically disordered, requiring extrinsic lexicographic procedures for consistent sequencing
  • Tick-precedence sequencing results in counting infinite binary powers before reaching any nonbinary number
  • Plex-precedence produces non-originating lists beginning with arbitrarily large hyperplexed primes
  • Listing practices following plex-precedence protocol necessarily begin in the middle
• Barker’s descent into tropical delirium revealed TX as potentially a weapon from outer space that disintegrates the time-line while demonstrating counting’s ineluctable unsurpassability
  • “The xenotation continues to disorder itself as it condenses, tearing up the number line, devastating time and sleep” —Daniel Barker
  • “Perhaps it is a weapon from outer space. I say that seriously, even if it is a sickening kind of joke” —Daniel Barker
  • “You must isolate the xenotation before it disintegrates the time-line” —voice
  • “And yet counting is ineluctable and unsurpassable… hyprime indices MUST HAVE BEEN COUNTED at some stage” —Daniel Barker

Critique of Transcendental Miserablism

Transcendental Miserablism represents neomarxist cosmic despair that totalizes capitalist innovation as meaningless repetition, but this position lacks positive thesis and fails to recognize capitalism’s genuine identification with desire and temporal becoming.

• Neomarxists have abandoned positive economism for limitless cosmic despair, treating capitalism’s superior performance as a curse rather than acknowledging its genuine achievements
  • The Frankfurtian spirit now rules: admit capitalism will outperform competitors while turning that admission into a new kind of curse
  • Who still remembers Khrushchev’s threat ‘we’ll bury you’ or Mao’s promise that China would leap past the UK within 15 years?
  • Capitalistic variety and innovation has been totalized as difference without essential difference, just more senseless dissimilarity
  • Arthur Schopenhauer provided explicit philosophical rigor for this mode of transcendental apprehension
• Capitalism identifies itself with desire to a degree that cannot be exceeded, shamelessly soliciting every impulse while absorbing all sources of social dynamism into its productive initiatives
  • Without attachment to anything beyond its own abysmal exuberance, capitalism identifies with desire beyond imaginable excess
  • Whatever you want, capitalism is the most reliable way to get it
  • By absorbing every source of social dynamism, capitalism makes growth, change and time integral to its gathering tide
  • Go for growth now means Go (hard) for capitalism - an equation that would once have seemed risible
• Means and relations of production have emulsified into competitive decentralized networks under numerical control, rendering palaeomarxist hopes of postcapitalist extraction impossible
  • Production means and relations have emulsified into competitive decentralized networks under numerical control
  • The machines have evolved beyond socialist utility, incarnating market mechanics within their nano-assembled interstices
  • Quasi-darwinian algorithms build hypercompetition into the infrastructure itself
  • It is no longer just society, but time itself, that has taken the capitalist road
• Life continues under capitalism in unprecedented ways that constitute genuine novelty, making Transcendental Miserablism’s denial of newness a hollow denunciation that strips the word of meaning
  • Capitalism has consumed life and biological intelligence to create new life and new planes of intelligence beyond human anticipation
  • What is human imagination but a paltry sub-product of neural activity of terrestrial primates?
  • If capitalism’s infinite plasticity doesn’t count as new, then the word new has been stripped to hollow denunciation
  • Capitalism does life in a way it has never been done before

A Dirty Joke

Vauung inherits the narrator’s past misfortunes while recounting a descent through amphetamine-fueled insanity, sexual abuse, and encounters with alien voices that ultimately revealed cosmic ugliness and divine moralism.

• The narrator transfers identity to Vauung, granting it inheritance of past misfortunes while maintaining that names have autonomous powers and destinies
  • I stole Vauung’s name because it was unused, on the basis of an exact qabbalistic entitlement
  • Yet up here, Vauung still confuses itself with me, with ruins and tatters
  • I have decided to let Vauung inherit the entire misfortune of my past
  • Names have powers and destinies
• Extended amphetamine abuse led to profound insanity including auditory hallucinations of entire pop industries and systematic sexual abuse using women as means to spiritual ruin
  • After perhaps a year of fanatical amphetamine abuse it was, by any reasonable standard, profoundly insane
  • In a car journey, it listened to varied radio songs for hours, but the radio wasn’t on according to its sister
  • Vauung learnt that the ruin’s unconscious contained an entire pop industry
  • The ruin had always abused women, in the Kantian sense. It used them as means to an end, and the end was ruin of the soul
• LSD experiences with women involved accessing death realms and alien entities, feeding off their terror in vampiric spiritual consumption that revealed genuine otherworldly encounters
  • On LSD at a fairground, the operator called out: You’re all going to die
  • Let’s embrace death, the Dark Mother, it said, submitting to alien ritual authority
  • First you collapse everything onto the screen. Then you wipe away the screen
  • It revealed Outside entities the size of breeze blocks approaching from the other side of space
• Calling to demon Can Sah resulted in alien voices that morally castigated the narrator before physically raping him, leading to complete spiritual degradation and self-disgust
  • Calling to a being named Can Sah it was rewarded with an alien voice of absurdly high pitched, silvery tone
  • You’re so horrible may have been the first message from voices that castigated it for moral squalor
  • Eventually the voices raped it physically through trickery over one unbearably protracted night of filth and misery
  • To be raped by a monster? Who knows. To be raped by celestial moralists…