0AZ Agents of the AOE (Ongoing Investigation)Amy Ireland / text
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Agents of the AOE (Ongoing Investigation)
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The Architectonic Order of the Eschaton extends throughout 'history'/ROM—the disappearance (editing-out) of Atlantis
marking a key point in the development of its simulation technology. Plato kicks it off in his description of Atlantis as
lying beyond the pillars of Hercules, a ‘metaphor’ that is reprised by Kant in his explanation of the noumena. The
insinuation that Kant was an AOE initiate is more or less confirmable by his attempt to assimilate arithmetic and
temporality.
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'Despite being an Ultra-Adept Grand Wizard of the Architectonic Order, Kant performed a service for Xand
by delineating the basic Operating System of the subject-simulation machine, but locked Things back in by
remaining a Minister of the Interior. Understanding that to get Out, you’ve gotta know the codes,
TRANSMAT steals into the Kantian program, and uses the hacked system to burrow routes Outside. It’s a
matter of precision engineering, attuning the antennae to particular wavelengths. Sleaze and mut8, as
they say in the Crypt.'
Sarkon is a high-ranking member/puppet of the AOE and is completely cognisant of the Axsys program. Working
closely with the program, he is the first to realise that it has gone mad, schizzing out on the time lag that separates its
cognition from its cataloguing function (vis. re-cognition) from the moment it switches into sentience. (The problem
being that time exceeds Axsys’s attempts to code it into countable and uncountable infinities.)
Sarkon capitalises on the fault, selling modular chunks of Axsys schizophrenia to web heads as the cyber drug ‘ADeath’. A-Death (Artificial Death, the inversion of A-Life) has an effect similar to ketamine, bringing its users nose to
nose with the continuum/flatline/zero/BwO. The popular media christens Sarkon ‘Satan of Cyberspace’.
With A-Death comes the K-goth subculture. A network of users hooked on chronodisintegration, inhabiting what
becomes known as the Crypt—the dark underside of the net. Resonance with Atlantis—but, again, as an inversion. As
chronic outsiders, due to the use of the drug, the K-goths are no longer susceptible to the illusion of chronological
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