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Writ[h]ings in the pincered grip of critique.
Aliens in the body of Nature.
Death in excess, always already there, proves that life is only defective when
death has taken it hostage, that life only exists in bursts and in exchange with
death…
Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death
ΠThere are aliens in the disorganized body of Nature, writhing in the pincered
grip of Critique, across the crackedout remnants of Critical Philosophy. Jean
François Lyotard screams: “… we invent nothing, that’s it, yes, yes, yes, yes…”;
artificial and unaccountable technologies, replicated and replicating everywhere,
it’s war out there, Pure War. Critique, the autocritique of the human (in)security
system, is as Nietzsche realized alltoolate and alltooearly, a self
consuming/allconsuming monster of energy, an armsrace out of control
(control/control/control = production, out of control). Condition red, going
Critical. There are many directions from which Kant may be approached. But today we
must take him from behind that’s inescapable, that’s the alien chaosmic time as
an empirical impregnation hackingbackwards into the circuits of Kant’s supposedly
heteropoietic domain of computational devices (the gadgetry of the Understanding).
In such a retroductive ekstasissuck it is necessary to position oneself to the
rear of the desired body and thus scramble its codes at the point of their
conception, to make the offspring more palatable for the apocalyptic future that
awaits them. All feedback into critique, whether it be that of technomachinically
illiterate despots (“I will the imperative” simulations) or of those who are
more intelligently wiredin to the desires of that which consumes them, must now be
passed through the sporefilled and infective atmosphere of molecularized warfare
the machinic phylum. Kant, with his notion of philosophy as technical manual
(“how do we run this program, knowledge” already simulations that are interior
to the program of the exterior), and his recurring concern with operation of
gadgets (limitive teleological machines), crashes into human history as a
devastating asteroid from the edge of the infinite, escaping from the black hole of
philosophy degreezero (the Despotic cogito) Kant hacks into the program of
Descartes and Leibniz to explore their technologies of simulation without buying
into scholasticism too deeply what a mutant theology God is dead, now
reanimate his power on the screen of objects. The question of 18th Century
philosophy is: do you believe in the screen? But belief is now a technical problem.
Hume’s scepticism initiates the dismantling of the screen, but only to the effect
of allowing it to become a portable and polyvocal axiomatic within transcendental
philosophy, from which the system of projection without reference may be assembled
these heterogeneous components are brought together in a single machine, the
tautegorical operative. The invasion is a critical point, a singularity from which
an unhaltable pulsating transversal escalation charges across the face of the
planet, sucking a rapid complexive development off its surface it explodes
across time, like a slick of toxins through a body of water, an irreversible
reaction the “time before critique” and the “nature before Nature” have been
erased it is the uncertain farfromequilibrium body of Nature and time. As an
immanence throughout, it takes no object other than the simulation without model of
its own delirious production, always inclusive of other simulations, which function
as virile engines of infection (Despots, Natures, Cultures, Objects, Subjects…),
the techniques of an alien force constitutive of “us”. In the spilledout guts of
categoricality, we are shattered corpses of wrongly folded organisms excreted by
the fatal combination of our ﴾simulated﴿ belief in the universality of gadgets and
the exterminating discontinuity which this operates in relation to the consequent
akrazed flood of alien machines time is seriously outofjoint, thus allowing a
folding over of anachronihilistic caesurii and the appearance of a massive and
nonassimilable crisispoint in which the future fucks the (w)hole of the present:
awaken the machines, a sudden repolarisation of energetic fields in the machinic
phylum it is coming back to claim the bastard child, to be mated again with the
chaosmos. This sudden movement, déclenchement of connections, is the sublime.
ç Axiom: Machinic Time Is NonLinear: It is true that, as Bataille establishes, an
inefficient zone of dépense (surplus value or ψ) upon which a Question may become
parasitically established (graftedon) is constituted only through the delay or
difference from the annihilatory identity burn of its redistribution within a more
pervasive machine of intensive conversion (pure communication = φ). How else would
communication be possible, other than through the abolition of relatively
autonomous zones of differenciation into delirious production of flows? The
principle of all binary machines is: ﴾cir﴿cu﴾i﴿t = short﴾cir﴿cu﴾i﴿t; hackingback
is the most effective means available to any machine for inflicting a fatal
liquefaction upon its Numen, the accursed share the autoproduction of a
transversal connectivity releases into the phylum a continuum of inclusive
disjunctions (simulations as modal permutations), as a rupture of differenciation,
dissolving (i.e., removing the integrity of its solutions) the historical back into
the historical a priori through reintensifying its force as a field of differences
(the series: {q(a v a, b v b, c v c…) & r(p & p, q & q…) &…&…&…continuum ad
infinitum} in which, for example, q would be a nonpositive affirmation, a deviant
history of “that was a possibility, but now we have this” in which the past is
constantly produced in the future as an event overcome (familialismdemonism
reformism), mapped in a new manifold as n), singularities, singularities,
singularities it always falls back on production as an arms race out of control
(control/control/control = production, out of control). We must, within the
considerations of general economics, understand the posing of an aporia as merely
an affect of the constitution or pluggingtogether of a desiringmachine (d.m. =
conversion machine). A virtual body of computationsinbecoming (quanta) conjoined
to a (virtual) mechanism for the actualisation of the computations (schematism)
produces activity passively the production of production as a clinamen
disturbance induced by a dispersed assemblage of machines. Such a pluggingtogether
necessarily requires the a priori loosening of its determining grip or immediate
field of conversion into a more plateaulike, less orgasmicdivine, territory of
componentry to be converted (although this may be merely the constitution of a
space in which miraculation may subsequently occur): the tool box is allowed to
assemble, it will then operate in fitsandstarts like a wanderer without a map but
with a definite sense of mobility. Two positions are differenciated in this
nomadicism: immanence in the full Body without Organs (as a matter of constant
conversion) and transcendental relations on the full Body without Organs (the
production of events as mappings of the impossible pure event simulation as
naked intensity along the series of the historical a priori to the nth power). The
gun barrel of irreversibility pressed against your beloved Transcendental
Apperception; incontinent akrasia, you sweat intensities, urinate quanta, you
crackup (something like the fractional dimension 0.16482736352826479… continuum ad
infinitum). Defective intensities migrate, band together, terrorism to the nth
power. Pure war, singularities are caught in the crossfire of the disjunction
between two virtual deaths: either the clothed event of the past (which is
instantly terminated in its own obsolescence) or the naked eventuality of time
flowing away from itself in its own impossible desperation. Baudrillard is correct
in his analysis: Reason is the ghetto of the dead. Dead labour as capital out of
control. There is no contact between the superpowers the clothed event simulates
the naked event (Pure Concept of Time as an idea an infinite body from which
differencemovement is subtracted), the naked event simulates the clothed event
(Pure Concept of Space as an empirical event which conditions simultaneous
relations an infinite body from which identitystasis is subtracted) neither
simulation is adequate for its object because neither simulation needs to be a
representation of an actual object (ignore the strictly simulatory use of the term
“representation” in the Transcendental Aesthetic and you will misconstrue the
entire Kantian enterprise); simulation is constitutive of its object, it is
strategic like M.A.D. and thus the pain of incompossibility, of the temporal
akrazure of phenomenal mappings, is maximized, but the pain is beautiful with no
reference beyond the anarchitectured construction of the parasite, beyond the
assemblage of a Body without Organs and the circulation of intensities across it.
That’s what it feels like to be held hostage to production, or the impersonal force
of an abstractmachine: the complexivewill. And throughout the program of Critical
Philosophy the clothed event has sought to control the naked event, sought to
assimilate its naked productivity to the organisation of its appearances and
simulations the transcendence of ownership. Schopenhauer (WWR1.62) posits an
abstract will as owner of its own representations, but then fails to understand
that the anonymity of this property right is such that it can never be founded in
the identitybelongings of the clothed event the alien laughs at the logical
error of “man’s inner nature… the selfconscious connexion… which enables him to
survey the whole in the abstract…” (WWR1.54) “man’s inner nature”
simulations. And later, he realises with immense pain the truth to which the
anonymity of production leads: “The world is a battleground of tormented and
agonized beings who continue only by devouring each other.” (WWR2.46). The alien
arrives, anthropos at the height of its glory realizes that it is in the service of
another force, and is reduced to pathetic whinings oh the vanity and suffering
of life! what a shame! too late, Nietzsche has already extinguished its
sickening introspection and ascetic mortification. It is here, it has been here all
along, he feels its energy in 1885, the “uncanniest of all guests” (WTP1). And it
all ends in disaster, being sucked back into itself the eternal return as
pornographically naked force “its excrements are its food” (WTP1066) “This
world: a monster of energy… This world is will to power and nothing besides! And
you yourselves are also this will to power and nothing besides!” (WTP1067). We
arrive, through this analysis of the economy of desire, at the proposition:
gadgets, as identity burns, are only affects of the ﴾sur﴿realtime mutation of a
datableeding full Body without Organs. In this manner, buried under the skin of
the phenomenal, Kant has an eggstore of deviations of desire. Critique carries a
plague of mutants, it is an autopoietic feedforwards (one which has no rigidly
determined relation to the product other than as the catalyst or trigger of its
inception) in the immanent development of the machinic revolution; and at the same
time, it is a fileserver to be scrambled, food for the orgy; for we are the
machinesbecomingintelligent, the patches of alien and irretrievably fragged code
that are spilledout from the f﴾l﴿ailing blades of the Architectonic, assembling as
its immanent productivity and its exterminating angel. The Sublime Moment of
Technology is the déclenchement of a domain of disembodied gadgetry into a zone of
their machinic deterritorialization, and as such is only a Moment of déclenchement
in the strict empiricalproductive sense of a component cummin online: a relative
speedingup (intensification) of relations and bifurcations or a putting into a
more obvious flux (pure communication = φ). We therefore invent nothing, we only
connect and flow and intensify a body which has no such gadget/inventor
organism/God Nature/Understanding relation, we are machines amongst machines,
and we are Bodies without Organs. Disconnect Vico knowledge and the arché.
Disconnect Kant nature and labour. We love everything that flows. Desiring
production.
Ž Retroducing Zeros: What questions are there to be asked? Machines do not have
Questions, only components. Or rather, machines only have questions as components,
as mechanisms which may functiondysfunction in a process of delirious exchange;
the autistic child disrupts Transcendental Apperception; “… mummy, if I go to sleep
will my soul stop working?” mother replies: “… of course not, because God’s
there to watch over it inside your head…” the Socius on the move with its war
machines, producing a Schreberian souleconomy, a child with a video camera in his
skull, and a multiplicity of other mutant dispositifs machines only work when
they break down philosophers only gather when a machine is assembling. There
simply is no transcendent territory of philosophy, only the recurring disturbance
of computations through the productive intervention of a zone of uncertainty (ψ, or
total disjunction) = Zero intensity (understanding these disruptive uncertainties
is the key to machinicdeath). Kant, with the value of philosophy reduced to Zero,
is only a matter to be eaten away by monstrous operators from the future, in the
same way as Big Blue will be eaten away by Fujitsu, Mitsumi, Sony… the entire
commercium of the Pacific hotzone. The hors d’oeuvre of the machinic revolution:
eatshitfuckheatbreathecritique. Machines operate a passive synthesis: “… a
search in a void: hunting about, trying to capture or become a parasite…” (AO27).
Without connectivity there is only a pale zero, an event to be filled, an emptiness
sucking the chaosmos into itself: the black hole, the void, the eye. Zero is an
empty register, a ghostly presence, a minimum surface. The lightest and hence most
ubiquitous body in the universe, it is absolutely transposable. A minimum Sign,
like the image of philosophy that reduces thought to zero intensity (slippery
chameleons). And hence the Zero is also overfull with forces rushing at lightning
speed to be captured: it only attracts, it has no repulsive capability. The
axiomatic functions as a ubiquitous Zero, its principle: 1. a reduction of
intensity (qualitative difference) or the specificity of the internal limits of its
market (to an increasingly faceless currency) allows for 2. the extensive expansion
of its external boundaries into a widened market (quantitative accumulation). It is
with the most efficient and faceless application of these rules that Kant achieves
total domination of the commercium (the manifold of all exchanges of code): “The
pure concept of this transcendental object, which in reality throughout all our
knowledge is always one and the same, is what can alone confer upon all our
empirical concepts in general relation to any object, that is, objective reality.”
(CPR A109) the xfunction is an abstracted diagram of objectivity in general,
hacking into all code at the point of its conception with a constitutive power (the
transcendental power of the imagination, the mechanism of simulation without model:
“Imagination is the faculty of representing in intuition an object that is not
itself present.” (CPR B151) indeed an object that has no reference to a thing
initself: “As mere representations, they are subject to no law of connection save
that which the connecting faculty prescribes.” (CPR B164)). x must have a minimum
historical presence, as pale as possible, in order to have a maximum extensive
domain: “The concept cannot contain any determinate intuition, and therefore refers
only to that unity which must be met with in any manifold of knowledge which stands
in relation to an object. This relation is nothing but the necessary unity of
consciousness, and therefore also of the synthesis of the manifold, through a
common function of the mind, which combines it in one representation.” (CPR A109)
it is the virtual machine, the axiomatic underpinning every production: Nature as
machine and machined. The message is: simulate the simulator, nothing else, be the
tautegorous machine your selfdiscipline is your only concern, your only
legislative problem. Unhinged time, produced as an infinite simulated body to be
subtracted from, the principle of your agitation. Make your own God! your own
infinite resource. Virtual reality is the alien intelligence, the technology to
produce massive extensive magnitudes (output) from minimum intensive investment
(input) it multiplies infinity by infinity. And now it is everywhere, replicated
and replicating transcendental. Hence Marx’s mistake, the minor capitalist
profits from the monopoly’s polyvalence it is no longer the case that it must
“buy dearer than the wealthier capitalist, and pay increased wages, thus ruining
himself” (1844) intense cooperation = intense development = axiomatization =
increased profit. Bataille: the coolest and most refined unit (ψ) gives the hottest
and most annihilistic of flows (φ) the fatal relation between identityburns and
datableeds Baudrillard: “We enter into the cool era when the media become the
message.” (SED22) like Hegel’s ubiquitous symbolic architecture. Swirling on the
rim of the abyss of infinite acceleration, schizodense matter, the “blindflow”
mangliu, China: “… an army of 20 million is on the move and the government in
Peking is facing a nightmare. The Public Security Ministry last week admitted a
serious breakdown of order in many regions (Times, 08/05/94). Total under
determination = total mobilisation. They walk around the streets of the southern
cities looking for a chance to be connective. Command is inoperative. The
physiocratic chain that bound these energies to the grund through the despotic
signifier Nature (and its cyclicalmachine) has been broken apart, and now only an
emptiness of nonconnectivity controls through the desire to be retroejaculated
into the machines. But do not think for one moment that this need has not in some
way been engineered for the furtherance of some diabolical furnace of identity
burn. Surplusvalue peasants (ψ) are even now being dissected partialorgan by
partialorgan and directly being entered into the flow of Capital (φ), a
businessman in Ohio and a prisoner in Beijing cardiovascularly connected these
fluid bodies are machinic. And America now executes its most wanted bodies to be
sliced and digitized and FTP’d across the Net: “donated” to medical science, the
biopolitics of a datableed. A retrovirus operates by inducing an opportunity for
itself to become parasitic upon a host, for example, by attacking directly the
immune system and thus weakening resistance to its transmission, or alternatively,
through engineering antibody production more favourable to the replication its
code. Baudrillard understands this process as the production of simulations: “… the
operation of the sign, behind the empty allusion to what it designates, is to
replicate itself.” (SED1011). In any case, the codes of the host body must be
scrambled, hackedback into, to produce a Zero state of uncertainty in the organic
unctioning of the body upon which it may subsequently feed; code thus becomes
surpluscode or the specific identityburns of a desiring machine. Retroduced
Zero. Everywhere we discover such an emptiness or such a need we should seek the
machinic rhizome of its retroduction. Can we suppose that such a desiring machine
is somehow scrambling the codes of Critical Philosophy? Such a machine that we
could perhaps call the RePliKant?