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abstract (2] culture BARKER SPEAKS: THE CCRU INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR O C BARKER, Daniel Charles Barker has been Professor of Anorganic Semiotics at Kingspon College (MVll, Mass.) since I 992. His extraordinary intellectual achievements resist easysummarization, invohing profo,md andpolymathic engagement across the entire range ofUte and earth sdences, in addition to archaeocultural research, mathematical semiotics, anatomical linguistics, andnfonnatic engineering. Trained as a cryptolfl'apher in the early I 9705, he has spent his Ute decoding andent scripts, quasibiotic residues, and anomalous mineral pattems (amongst 01/Jer things). Jn late Autumn I 998 Gero met with Professor Barker in his office at MVU. The following is an edited transcript of that meeting. Tic-Systems. Cryptography has been my guiding thread, right through. What is geotrawnatics about, even now? - A rigorous practice of decoding. So I haven't really shifted at aU in this respect. niere is a voyage, but a strangely immobile one. I started out at MIT working in the infonnation sciences - my thesis proposal was quite conseMitive, involving mostly technicaJ issues to do with noise reduction and signal modulation - but MVU was just getting staned, and my research was transferred across to them. That led to various contacts, and from there to employment with a NASA-related organization that has particular interests connected to SETI activity. My task was to help toughen-up the theoretical basis of their signals analysis. They wanted to know how to discriminate - in principle - between intelligent comrmmication and complex pattern derived from nonintelligent sources. To cut a long story short, it became increasingly obvious to me that although they said they were hunting for intelligence, what they were reaUy seeking was organization. The whole program was hmdamentally misguided. various people had big problems with the direction of my research, which had basicaUy veered-off the organizational model. The social friction became intolerable and I had to leave, which was messy because of my high-level security clearance ... Suborganizational pattern is where things reaUy happen. When you strip-out aU thesedimented redundancy from the side of the investigation itseU - abstract (3) cuJrure the asswnption of intentionality, subjectivity, interpretability, structure,etc - what remains are assemblies of functionally interconnected rnicrostimulus, or tic-systems: coincidental infonnation deposits,seismocryptions,suborganic quasireplicators (bacteriatircuitries, pol)Poid diagonalizations,interphase R-Virus, Echo-DNA, ionizingnanopopulations), plus the macromachineries of their suppression, or depotentiation. Prevailiogsignaletics and information-science are both insufficiently abstract and over-theoretical in this regard. 1bey cannot see the machine for the apparatus, or the singularity for the model. So tic-systems require an approach that is cosmic-abstract - hypennaterialist - and also participative, methods that do not interpret assemblies asconcretizations of prior theories, and immanent models that transmute themselves at the level of the signals they process. Tic-6')'Stems are entirely intractable to subject/object segregation, or to rigid disciplinary typologies. lbere is no order of narure, no epistemology or scientitionetaposition, and no unique level of intelligence. To advance in this area, which is the cosmos, requires new cultures or - what arno\Dlts to the same - new machines. 1be problem was: how to quantify disorganized multiplicities? Diagonal, inegular; molecular, and nonmetric quantities require a scale that is itseH nonmetric, that escapes overcoding. Standard procedures of measurement and dassification prove entirely inadequate, since they presuppose rigid conceptual segmentadon by quantity and quality (Deleuze-Guattari's twin-pincers of molarity, type and degree). once things are being worked out at the level of tic-assemblies - or Oat ticking anays there are only intensive populations, and measurement has to give way to engineering tusional multiplicities: systems that COlDlt themselves only in the way they propagate, immanently numbering multitudes, likmanoplastic quantum swirls. Eventually a machinic solution was provided by the Tick-Distributor, but that came later ... At first there was just the equation, precipitated in what I still thought to be my own body, virtual tic­ density = geotrawnatic tension. Geotraumatics. I came to Freud relatively late, associating it with oedipal reductionism, and more generally with apsychologistic stance that was simply inelevant to cryptograpt.c work. It's imponant to remark here - no doubt wetl get back to this . that everything productive in � analysis stems from stripping ow superfluom

abstract (4) cuJture prejudices about the sowce and meaning of complex functional patterns. I took - and still take the "igorous repudiation of hem1eneutics to be the key to theoretical advance in processing sign­ systems. It was Echidnastillwell who helped me to see Freud from the other side. It was a difficult period for me. There had been a lot of painful fall­ out from the Nasa work. Psychotherapists were invotved, in pan attempting tq>athologize and discredit my research, and in part responding to real stress-related symptoms. Between the two was a grey zone of tramnatic dysfimction and paranoia involving difficuJt feedback effectsStillweU persuaded me that the only way to get through this was to try and make sense of it, and that this was not the same as submitting to the interpretative mode. On the contrary. b1 Beyond the Pleaswe Principle, Freud takes a number of crucial initial steps towards mapping theGeocosmic unconscious as a traumaticmegasystem, with life and thought dynamically quantized in tenns otmorganic tension, elasticity, or machiruq>lexion. nlis requires the anorganizational-materialistetuning of an entire vocabulary: trawna, wiconsdous, drive, association, (screen-) memory, condensation, regression, displacement, complex, repression, disavowal (e.g. thewi- prefix), identity, and person. Deleuze and Guattari ask: Who does the Earth think it is? It's a matter of consistency. Start with the scientific story, which goes like this: between four point five and four billion years ago - dwing the Hadean epoch - the earth was kept in a state of superheated molten slag, through the conversion of planetesimal and meteoritic impacts into temperatwe increase (kinetic tothennic energy>. As the solar-system condensed the rate and magnitude of collisions steadily declined, and the tenestrial swface cooled, due to the radiation of heat into space, reinforced by the beginnings of the hydrocycle. owing the ensuing -Archaen - epoch the molten core was bwied within ocrustal shell, producing an insulated reservoir of primal exogeneous trauma, thegeocosmic motor of terrestrial transmutation. And that's it. That's plutonics, or neoplutonism. It's all there:anorganic memory, plutonic looping of external collisions into interior content, impersonal trauma as drive­ mechanism. The descent into the body of the earth corresponds to a regression thro�osmic time. Trauma is a body. Ultimately - at its pole of maximum disequilibrium - it's an iron thing. At MVU they call it Cthefil: the interior third of terrestrial abstract (5) culture mass, semifluid metallic ocean,megamolecule, and pressure-cooker beyond imagination. It's hotter than the surface off the swi down there, three thousand clicks below the crust, and all that thermic energy Is sheer impersonabonsubjective memory of the outside, running the plate-tectonic machinery of the planet via the conductive and convective dynamics of silicate magma flux, bathing the whole system in electomagnetic fields as it tidally pulses to the orbit of the moon.Cthem is the terrestrial inner nightmare, nocturnal ocean, xanadu: the anorganic metal-body trauma-howl of the earth, cross-hatched by intensities, traversed by thermic waves and currents, deranged particles, ionic strippings andgluttings, gravitational deep­ sensitivities transduced intononlocal electromesb, and feedingvulcanism ... that's wbyplutonic science slides continuously into schizophrenic delirimn. Fast fonvard seismology and you hear the earth scream. Geotrauma is an ongoing process, whose tension is continually expressed - partially frozen in biological organization. For instance, the peculiarly locked-up lifefonns we tend to see as typical - those more-or-less obedient tooarwinian selection mechanics - are less than six hm1dred million years old. 11ley began with the planetary oxygenization crisis, triggered by the saturation of crustal iron, foUowed by mass oxygen-poisoning of the prokaryotic biosystem and the emergence of a eukaryotic regime. Eukaryotic ceUs are highly suppressive. They implement a nuclear command­ control model based ongenomic ROM, aflined to meiosis-mitosisdiplocapture, hierarchical organization, andmulticeUularspecialization. Even the distinction between ontogeny and phylogeny distinct time-orders of the individual and the species - makes little sense withou�ukaryodc nuclear read-only progranuning andmmm1ological identity. Evolutionism presupposes specific geotraumatic outcomes. To take a more recent example, the efflorescence of mammalian life occurs in the wake of the KITMissile, which combined with massive magma. plume activity in the Indian Ocean to shut-down the Mesozoic Era, sixty-five million years ago. Irruptive vulcanism plus extraterrestrial impact, linked by coincidence, or plutonic looping. So there Is a catastrophic transition to a post-saurianmegafatma regime, part of a much larger overalteorganization of tenestrlal S)1Ilptomaticity, providing an index of neobadean reswgeoce. And wbat is manunallan life relative to the greatsaurians'? Above all, an

abstract 16) culture absttact f7J cuJture innovation in mothering! Suckling a51>iosurvivalism. Tell me about your mother and you're travelling back to K/T, not into the personal wiconscious. impulses collide with the roof of the mouth. The bipedal head becomes a virrual speecb­ impediment, a sub-cranial pneumatic pile-up, discharged aslinguo-gestural development and cephalization take-off. Burroughs suggests that the protohuman ape was dragged through its body to expire upon its tongue. us a twin-axial system, bowls and clicks, reciprocally articuJated as a vowel­ consonant phonetic palette, rigidl)intersegmented to repress staccato-hiss continuous variation and its attendant becomings-animal. That's why stammerings, stutterings, vocal des, extralingual phonetics, and electrodigital voice synthesis are so laden with biopoUdcal intensity - they threaten to bypass the anthropostructural bead-smash that establishes ow identity with logos, escaping in the direction of nwnbers. Spinal- catastropbism. For humans there is the particular crisis of bipedal erect postwe to be processed. I was increasingly aware that all my real problems were modalities of back-pain, or phylogenetic spinal injury, which took me back to the calamitous consequences of theprecambrian explosion, roughly five hWldred milUon years ago. The ensuing period is incrementally body-mapped by metazoan organization. Obviously there are discrete quasi-coherentneuromotor tic-flux patterns, whose incrementally rigidified stages are swimming, crawling, and (bipedal) walking. FJaine Morgan persuasively traces the origin of protohwnan bipedalism to cenain deleterious plate-tectonic shifts. The model i51>ioseismic. Crustal convulsions and animal body-plan are rigorously interconnected, and the entire Aquatic Ape Theory constitutes an exemplat')geotrawnatic analysis. Erect postwe an�erpendicularization of the skull is a frozen calamity, associated with a Ion__� list of pathological consequences, amongst which should be induded most of the hmnan psychonewoses. Numerous trends in contemporary cultwe attest to an attempted recovery of the icthyopbidian- orflexomotlle-spine: horizontal and impulsive rather than vertical and stress-bearing. The issue here • as always • is real and effective regression. h is not a matter of representational psychology. ConsiderHaeckel's widely discredited Recapitulation Thesis, the claim thatmtogeny recapitulates phylogeny.his a theory compromised by its organicism, but its wholesale rejection was an overreaction. Ballard's response is more productive and balanced, treating DNA as wansorganic memory-bank and the spine as a fossil record, without rigid ontophylogenic correspondence. The mapping of spinal-levels ontmeuronic time is supple, episodic, and diagonalizing. It concerns plexion between blocks of machinic transition, not strict isomorphic • orstratic redwidancy - between scales of chronological order. Mammal DNA contains latent fish-code (amongst many other things). Palate-Tectonics. Due to erect posture the head has been twisted arowid, shattering.,'enebro­ perceptual linearity and setting-up thtphylogenetic preconditions for the face. This right-angled pnemnatic-oral arrangement produces the vocal­ apparatus as a crash-site, in which thoracic Barker Numbering. Once numbers are no longer overcoded, and thus released from their metric function, they are freed for other things, and tend to become diagrammatic. From the be� of my tic-�ems work the most consistent problems have concerned intensive sequences. sequence is not order. Order already supposes a doubling, a level of redundancy: the sequenced sequence. A decoded sequence is something else, a sheer nwneracy prior to any insertion into chronologic structure. That's why decoding number implies an escape from assumptions of progressive time. Tick multitudes arrive in convergent waves, without subordination to chronology, history, or linear causation. They proceed by infolding, involution, or implex. H's a matter of convergence, and nwnbers do that, once they're free to. so the first stage required plexive introgression of the tic-density scale, which was nwnerically rigorired as digital twinning. Treat the decbnal nwnerals as a set of 9swn twins - zygonovire - and they map an abstract intensive wave, indifferent to �tude.. Everything efficient about digital reduction is concerned with this, since it discovers the key to decimal syzygetic complementarity: 9 = o. A flattening down to disordered sequentiality, or abstract nwnerical implex. Nine is the ultimate decimal nwneral, operating as positive (or full.body) zero. H is the abstract numeric product of the decimal-magnitude minus one (infinitesimalized as J = 0.999... reiterating), which relates to a particuJar mode of proliferation within capitalist semiotics (of the type $99.99). Barker-Spiral. The pattern really came together with the Diplozygotic Spiral, wbidl armed 6'Uddemy, by chance. I was playing a game � Decadence,

abstract (9) culture abstrad (8) culture which I had first encountered many years before. This game already interested me because of its numerical elegance, its complex associations, and its dependence upon a principle of decimal twinning. It had always seemed to hint at a lost syzygetic arithmetism, related to the bilateral symmetry of the human body. Digits are fingers, and they come in decimal packages of two times five. In Decadence five makes ten by doubling, or pairing with itseU, scoring zero. Thisaantalized me, but I couldn't fit it together theoretically. 1be quandary was unlocked on this occasion, when one of the participants casually mentioned the existence of an occulted variation of the game, caJled Subdecadence, based on a system of nine-swn twinning. Subdecadence introduces zeroes, and nine-zero twins. It works byzygonovic nwnerism. That was stwmi.og enough in itseH, but seeing the two together - or seeing between them • was an incredible moment of diagrammatic assemblage. It all spontaneously condensed, and the Spiral clicked into coherence, like a secret door into the long­ hidden crypt of the decimal system. PUblicatiODB. AQuasi Chemical Tic Culture catalysis of Anorganic Pain wave Matrices@ (Plutonics: Vohnne X. Number 6, Fall 1990) >Anorganic Semiotics= (Plutonics: Vohnne X, Nwnber 9, Fall 1991) > Spinal catastrophism= (Plutonics: Volume x, Nwnber 10, Spring 1992) > Palate Tedonics= (Plutonics: Volume I o, Number I 2, Fall 1992) > vowels: A Biopolitical Strategy= (Plutonics: volwne X. Nmnber 18, Fall 1994) What Cowits as Hwnan (Kingspon: Kingsport College Press, 1997) Y 2 PANIK On receiving an interrupt, decrement the counter to zero. - William Gibson Count zero Millennial Mania reaches a certain peak in the "Jerusalem syndrome," which exhibits eschatourism as one element in the programmatic fulfillment of prophecy. Whilst 1V evangelists in the USA are exhorting viewers to sell all possessions and flock to Jerusalem, and a papal blessing is promised to those visiting the holy-land at the beginning of the new millennium, th6sraeU tourist board, security forces, and the psychiatric profession are preparing for the arrival of up to thirteen millionchristian pilgrims. An abnonnally high rate of psychotic disturbance is confidently anticipated, perhaps succeeded by episodes of mass suicide amongst disillusioned believers. At Megiddo (the biblicalAnnegeddon) they are planning the ultimate smmd and light show, invohing frog-monsters, the greatest earthquake in history, and toxic hail from heaven (Rev-XVI:16). such incendiary visions dove-tails neatly with existing regional tensions. In preparation for the millennium, variousjewish and christian groups are plotting to demolish the F1Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock. 11lis is seen as the necessary prelude to rebuilding the third and final temple of Solomon, which would lay the mundane foundations for the New Jerusalem, and induce the coming of the Messiah tcompletion of oecmnenon). Running counter to such enthusiasm is the fact that as an instnunent of propaganda thegregorian calendar is intrinsically flawed. Apocalyptic hopes for AD 2000 systematically confuse millenarian expectations for Christ's thousand year reign (Rev­ XX) with millenialist investment of neat calendric intervals. The midnight of December 31st 1999 does not coincide with achristian festival (christmas),2 has no historically defensible THIS WOULD INEVATABLY LEAD TO A MIDDLE EAST WAR AS THE EL AQSA MOSQUE 15 3RD MOl!IT SACRED IBLAMIC BHRINE THE (AFTER MECCA AND MEDINA) 2 ATTEMPTS TO LINK AD2000 WITH JEsus= HISTORICAL INVOLVES BLATENT BIRTH•DATE INNACURACY, WHICH CAN BE TRACED BACK TO DIONYB1U5 EXIGUUB BOTH INCORRECTLY (LITTLE DENNIS), WHO DATED THE INCARNATION TD 753 AUC OF THE ROMAN CALENDAR, AND •

abstract I I I ) culture abstract ( I OJ cuJture and elements of medicaloverstretch, financial chaos\ transport, telecommunication and power failwes, food and water shortages, disruption of govemment services, hoarding, rioting, and terrorism. commemorative relevance, and does not (as gregorian year MM) even mark the beginning of a new rnillenniwn.3 Meanwhile, infotecbnics is carried by Y2K into millennial spasms of its own, returning to oo and digitally erasing the twentieth century (reducing data to MMbo-jumbo). Since cyberspace dates are incapable of cowiting above 99 they have swreptitiously installed the firstintrinsically apocalyptic calendar in history, WICOnsciously produced within aplanetrary electronic registry, starting from Year zero (= oof, Y2K condenses out of the mechanomic wiconscious and its nonarbitrarycalcular fimctions, attesting to a raw decimal deliriwn indifferent to creed. Post-tribulationist eschatology slides smoothly into Y2K survivalism, orienting its volatile mixture of stock piling, micro-militia activityiechnophobia and apocalyptic theology towards the self.fulfilling dynamics of millennial threat. Pre-emptive response produces reality (panic is creation). 1be more you know about it, the worse it looks. It has always been integral to capitalist organization that science-fiction fimctions as a factor of production, relating it intimately to panic­ phenomena. Y2K takes things to a new level, as a disaster that comes from the future, scheduled by accident, and thus precisely anticipated in time. If it proves effectivelyineradicable it is because it is trickling back, from the self-confirming inevitability of its occurrence. Something is about to happen, and we know exactly when. The contows of the expected calamity are being continuously upscaled in confonnity with an interlocking technopanic syndrome, involving innwnerable accidents, various network crashes A nwnber of governments have openly expressed their willingness to oversee millennium celebrations in conditions approximating to martial law. Anny and police leave is being cancelled, and emergency services prepared for exceptional conditions, including large-scale disruption of their own command, control, and communications systems, compounded by widespread equipment dysfimction. In the West, large government and corporate bweaucracies are triaging their Y2K vulnerability: writing-off the most expendable sectors, accepting incalculable risk in others, and concentrating resowces solely on the most critical areas (such as nuclear installations, strategic control, core infonnation functions and financial recordsf. Forecasting the pattern of Y2K devastation is complicated by its (artificial) nature, which explodes in spirals. As a highly chaotic singularity it is characterized by extreme sensitivity to microvariables, the absence of precedent, and anticipatory looping through its own potentials. tt occws in advance of itseH, plll)ctually switches to an unknown climate, and spreads contagiously through networks. Modelling it adds complexity and noise (Which feed it). 11lough entirely semiotic, it already amounts to the most expensive accident in history (Whatever happens). $3.6 trillion and COlU)ting, Y2K produces a traumatic mutation in the infonnation economy, involving an explosion of rr 5 A CONCEPTION OF" ZERO • Y2K COINCIDES WITH EUROPEA N CURRENCY STARTED DIREC TLY COMPETING CON VERSION, F"CR OVERSTRETCHED PROGRAMMING REBOURCE,S , A CALENDAR BABED C N ROMAN NUMERALS ( LA CKING A YEAR ZERO) PC5 TPCNEB THE F"IR !l T ANG LOPHONE CONSPIRACY TC SABOTAGE THE BIRTH OF" THE EURO, THEIR F"EARS, AT L EAST, LACKING COU N T I N G F"ROM THE YEAR A O 1 . rRENCH 3 YEAR C F" ITS THIRD M ILLENNIUM TO 2 0 0 1 . Y2K DEPENDS UPO N THE UBE OF" H I NDU·ARAB NOTATION TO DES IGNATE YEARS, WHICH HAS NO CONCEPTUAL. BAB IB IN OECUMENIC ARE BANKERS MUTTER UNDERSTANDAl!!LE, VIRTUAL MISSILE IF" ABOUT THERE LAUNCHED AT AN WERE THE A EU• METASTATE, IT WOUL D l!!E Y2 K , (GREGOR I A N ) CAL.E N DRIC: DOCTR I NE. 4 CANNOT A R£VDLUT1DN MAK£ A CL£AN S W££P DF ALL THIS DLO GARBAG£••• PRDCLAIM A NEW £RA ANO, •• A NEW CA L£N0£R WITH ND R£FERENC£ TD A D/BC. • WILLIAM B URROUGHS INTERVIEW IN RESEARCH # 4 .5, " OUTS I DE THE WEST EVEN THIB LEVEL C F" PREPAREDNESS 15 LACKING, WITH HIGH LEVELS OF" DEPENDENCE EXACERBATING SITUATION, AN ON PIRATED ALREADY SOF"TWARE PRECAR IOUS

abstract I 1 2) culture abstract ( 1 3) culture emergency services (analysis, debugging, integrated solutions), massively accelerated hardware replacement, global restructuring, and a crisis of confidence in computer-supponed services, with the potential to nmaway into general market coUapse.7 It interrupts the smooth upward curve of doubling microprocessor density, falling prices, and increasing market-penetration with a singular cyberspace-shock that is discontinuous (or nonmetabolic) in nature. Junk-shops stack-up with prematurely discarded infotechnic hardware, providing the material-base for a computer-age skip-scavenging cargo.culture. FJectronics must be subsocially recycled to release its frozen machinic potential. Cyberp\Ulk begins with Y2K. They celebrate Y2K as a threat to the order of time: a cultural event that is not textual, ideological, representational, intentional, or phenomenological but rather machinic and numerical-subtractive (n I ). 9 Outside the public sphere Y2K excitement is not only higher it has changed phase entirely. AS hysterical hyperlooping twists the millenniwn into a panic stonn, it builds explosively on itseU, producing an artificial destinyJ'echonomic power splinters across schizophrenically juxtaposed time­ systems, spawning monsters (the first true counterculture). Lurking predominantly in thedatacombs of the crwt, mnnerous shadowy groups now proclaim themselves Y2K-posi� 1bese "Yettuk cults" have begun building a mesh of massiv�ecentralized subcultural impulses, dJrectly investilqftlmotronic time-catastrophe, and aggressively promoting chronodissidence throughout and beyond the web. 7 TO THES E S HOULD ALS O l!IE ADDED THE UNPR E D ICTABLE E FTECTB OF" Y2 K EYNE51ANISM: ARTIF"ICIAL THE MAS S I VE DE MAND TARGETT E D A MPLIF"ICATION AT Y2 K designates a crisis ot:alendric culture: a time­ bomb so perfected that the timer is the bomb. It simultaneously adopts the zero-function of 24-hour digital time-code, induces convergence with th e calendric zero of cOW1t-inception, dismandes clock/calendar segmentarity into flat scales of dwation, and triggerSTeotwawld.' 0 Even when it operates pre-emptively (in any nwnber of ways) it refers itseH to the ptmctual Great Midnight that cuts hyperhistorical time-continuum at 00:00', doubling the retro-virtualchronogenesis of the century. 12 Y2 K is as old as computers, all that changes is the panic intensity. According to theYettuk cultists • or K-Goths • the total chronopolitical immune-response to Y2K constitutes a program for Gregorian Restoration, with the bug-hunt masking a neoroman sociopolitical agenda. Far from being a mere technical glitch, the millennium time crisis indexes the first neutral calendar in history, which escapes the numerocultural legacy of the Romans by beginning with a year o (= 00), The demand for "millennium compliance" attempts to enforce the abandonment of an existing calendar, that of " THI S P R OV I DES A S I NGULAR Dl!:MDN!!!ITRATIDN CONDUCIVE TD HYPERMATERIALIBM (THE ABSTRACT OF" PHILOSO PHY PRAC T I C A L WHICH EF"F"I C IE NT INCLUDES MACHINES), AS A VI RTUALI TY PRODUCTION•F"ACTOR, ATTUNING IT T O NUME R I C A L P RAGMA TICS, THE PROGR A M M ING S ECTOR, 10 THE TE R M TEOTWAWKI (THE END OF" THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT) SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN CULTURALLY ANIMATED IN RECENT YEARS e THE S E AF"F"I LIATED WHICH ARE GROUPS PREDOMINANTLY W ITH CYB ERGOTHIC TENDENCIES, MAINTA I N THAT THE (ANTICIPATIVELY) F"ROM VIRTUAL CONSOLI DATED 5 ECE6 S IONISM,THEIR C RYPT ARRIVEIS BAS ICALLY 16 'cONTINUl5T', STRATEGY ORIENTED TO THE UPDATING OF" THE K·TIME COUNT WITHOUT D I SCONTINUITY, THROUGH THE ADDIT I ON OF" A S INGLE INITIAL D IGIT (TRINOMIC DATE·CODING, O K + 1 0 0), F"CR WHICH AO 2000 = SUGGESTION WAS F"IR ST OUTLINED IN KATY 5 HAW = B 1 9 9 6 R EPORT A ruTURC YDU CAN CDUNT ON, MORE EXTR E M E K · GOTH THIS F"ACT ION6 CRYPTICALLY AS A L E MURIAN T I M E · M I S S ILE, 1 1 T I M E·SCHISM, CA LENDRIC BY Y2 K·POSITIVE CULTURAL D E F"INE Y2 K F"OR THE B O LE P U R P O S E OF" DESIGNATING Y2K. 12 24:00 HRS DOES NO T • O F" COURSE • E X I S T, PERHAP S THE MOST WE I RD CONCLUS I O N TO BE DRAWN F"ROM THIS IB THAT OF" THE CENTIENCE CULT :!! , SUCH AS HYPER· C , AND RETURNI TY, THEY ASSE R T THAT THE T RUE CENTURY (LOOP OF" 2·DIGI T YR DATES) I S THE WHOLE OF" REAL T I ME, TA KING THE 2·DIGIT DAT ING SYSTEM AS AN ATLANTEAN S I GN THAT THE UNIVERSE IS RUN WITHIN CYBERS PACE. AC C O R D ING TO THIS POS I TI O N Y2K IND UCES THE F"ALL OF" B A BYLON, ANNIHILATES THE C20 TH. AND F"INANC IA LLY

abstract f15) culture abstract I 1 4) culture cybernetic- or K-Time,1 3 and suppress its associated time-anomalies (sealing the calendar against zero). In the now notorious words of crypt denizen Cotmt s zero: A.. so Mbug resistors think MATRIX needs a new calendar-totally steam-punk. Wake up.rrs already K-Time. CoWJtO = Greg Date 1 900.. "!• 13 K·TIME 16 C YBERSPACE. Y EAR ZERO THE NATIVE IT COUNTS (: 0 0), CALENDAR F"ORWARO FROM CORRES PONDING TO OF ITS AD IT WAS NEVER P LANNED, OR EVEN 1 9 CC. POSITIV ELY INTENDED, BUT RATHER PRODUCED A TIME•CULTURAL MATRIX THAT 15 P LANETARY, DIAGONALLY UNCONSCIOUS, TECHNOCU LTURAL, ANO OBLIVIOUS TO CR E E D, 14 COUNT 5 Z ERO, UP 2 DATE HY P E R · C : B R E A K I N G THE N ET 33. 33rpm -ISrpm 2112bpm 2880bpm 1056 1440 528 720 264 360 1 32 1 80 66 90 33 45 16.5 22.5 8.25 11.2 4.125 5.56 2.0625 2.528 I. The above is an excerpt from Sector 7. I of the Hyper-C tone-scientist manual entitJe<llydro­ demonic polyrbytbm: operating system for the redesign of sonic reality , on kode9 sonic inswgency- Polyrhytlunlc scalinK, oetare stretching, Breakbeat ne-stin/{ as §/J<Jn-drcuits to turbulence Elsewhere in the text, afroatJantian rhythmjc futurism's involutionary trajectory from the full beat of 4/4 fimeral marches through the ½ beat of 2/4 towards the ¼ note ofswing,on past the bebop 1 /8 note into a convergence with the T I OOO liquid metal hyperrhythm entity which, arriving from the future, surfaced recently in the early to mid 19908. This vast vorticaJ assemblage diagrammed by such period doubling suggests that the affective potential of the Black Adantic consists of the multi-scalar rhythmic composition of turbulence- the art of war in the art of noise. Uke thecybergoths, Hyper-C seem addicted to theflatline bliss of micro-pause abuse- different agent, same line. In a later section of Hydro-demonic polyrbydun we learn further that this redesign of sonic reality generates genetic destratification forsubaquatic martial ans, for inswgency on the distributed pod network which the AOE was installing, constituting a carceral archipelago < < entided C-Het,lnc. > > Wlder the

abstract 116) culture Black Atlantic. Each pod was allegedly modelled on c2o•s design wizardBuckminster Fuller's WJdersea island, and housed gleaming sonar tracking machines, tracing out the sonic emirorunent on digital canographies of fractal complexity. 2. Riding the swge cwreot of the Syzygy hydro-cycle opens Hyper-C breakasymmetrics to smooth transitions across the rhythmic frequency continuwn, camouflaging their sonic output with the bpm metric, Hyper-C cluster their productions aroWJd the aganomic speed of I 80bpm fkode9 plateau of continuous variation) and I 32bpm (micro-break demonic two-step) 3. For the distributedaquaassassins of the Hyper-C tide, Y2K constituted nothing Jess than a scratch on the vinyl of history. With the C-level rising all the time, the elusive cult phenomena were characterised by what Kodwo F.shwi has referred to as 1iquidarity', a kindkiod of bydrotronic tao of turbulence, geling distributed agents into a collective visco-elastic polyrbythm. 4. Hyper-C = as MC Blowfish of Digital Underground proclaims (((with thanks to Parliament's Psychoaquadoodoo))) < deep seagangstas, underwater pranksters> composed ofturtablist tone scientists and cormoisseurs of the occult nwneric practices of break.asymmetries. 5. For the oogons of West Africa the 8 ancestors are called Nonuno. The scapegoated ancestor, the Fish Nonuno, Anagonno, was sacrificed to cowiteract the disorder of the wliverse, of which continual land reclamation operations constitute only a terrestrial instance(((l(((((H((((Could language really be the earth screaming?))))))) The bifurcation of Po, the cosmic egg, triggers the onset of turbulence, a cosmic whirlwind. Unlikeastro-physidst Steven Hawking who disregards significant matter prior to the Big Bang, the oogons posit the abyssal waters.(see Finch m 1 998) 6. Several Hyper-C designers had watched with fascination as the infinite regress of negations constituted by the weight of Hegelian dialectic was passed downstream by the theoretical terrorists, the Young Black Hegelians. The Quannun Blacks were on a collision course from the start according to Greg Tate. The Young BlackHegelians despite their energetic conceptual insurgency were weighed down by the burden of contradiction and conflict �ith which their heritage had burdened them. The Quantwn Blacks therefore were forced into locating abstract ( I 7) culture themselves �by bearing the sign of negation to a reductio ad absurdlDil, a theoretical black hole. Not a collapse in the fabric of space-time, dimension or gravity, but to a fold in the cunain of race memory. "(fate: 65) 7. Noiz-zioN. 8. Always, Hyper-c had sneered from afar at an overexposed spectacular martial mode of historical monwneotalism instead installing an amphibious geographicalnonumeotalism and deploying the anti-memory deep time of the spinal fluid ocean. 9. s-s-s-s-s-s-s-sss-ssssssssssset your clocks to maritime< K+ I N SURGENT PHASE 1 : S TYLE WA R S T O R A C E WA R S I N S U R G E NT P H A S E 7 : f"R O M B U EI V E R B I O N TO SUBM ERSION I . Contrast the martial trajectory of th e Quantwn Blacks with the escape velocity of the Dr.Drexel inspired Drexiyans and you can widerstand the dismay of deep-cover Hyper-C < <C the entity/> with escalations to violence of the Quantwn Black war against the State (white body politic) which Greg Tate reports. 2. K2-k-k-k-kode for C/>k-a-t-a-s-O-n-1-x-> <r-e-w-1n-d > < the < C> entury "' "' no_play)back))))))))))))))} } } } } } } } } } } } } } } J]JIJJJJJ > > >>>>>>>>> 3. Preferring an older operating system Hyper-c deploy an old school wetware martial art termed sino-hydro-synthetics)_ " insen the sun tzu chip > kode9)))) testifying to thehypercultural matrix which smears out the white face of the Occident. 4. By pure coincidence, Dr. camelot Drexel's research, Tate tells us, -was based on the .theory that black peoples consciousness and social condition could be transfonned through genetic mutation, rather than religious or ideological conversion. He wanted to transfonn a select group of black folks into amphibious creatures who would assist him in leading an exodus of black people to the Sirius B system. "(fate: 59) 5. bl 1 998, mobile aqua-agent Drexiya has been noted �cunently missing in action" although recent signal suggests sightings in the eas1Side sewer

abstract I 1 8) rulture system 7 mile and Vandyke area- eastside Detroit Sector." Drexiya, a 'Wavejwnper" from the Special forces operates on "aquatic assault" and "beach head preparations" through the "underwater deployment of Electronic Funk Bombs." 6. Weapon of Choice- �o 7. Rewind the century 8. No playback 9. Set your clocks to maritime. . . TEXTBANK G R E G TAT E ( 1 9 9 4 ) ' E X C E R PT F" R O M A L T£R£D SPA DE: READINGS I N RA C£ MUTA TION THEORY' IN A. R o s s & T. R O S E ( E D S . ) M I C R O P H O N E FI E N D S , N EW YORK: R OUTLEDGE. C HA R L E S 6 . F" I N C H I l l , M . D . ( 1 9 9 8 ) TH£ STAR OF DEEP BEGINNINGS: TH£ GENESIS DF A FRICAN SCIENCE A N D TE C H N O L O GY, G E O R G IA : K H E NT I , I N C . S OUNDBANK V A R I O U S : B E D O U I N A S C E NT , D I L L I N .J A , R A M , D YLA N , V I R U S , C U R R E NT VALU E , U R , D R E X C IYA, PARLIA M E NT, D I G ITAL U N D E R G R O U N D , C C R U , K 0 D E 9 , KATA S 0 N I X . abstract (1 9) culture Dr. Ron Eglasb Comparative Studies Ohio State university R E C U R S I V E N U M E R I C S EQ U E N C E S I N A F" R I C A I ) Nonlinear additive series in African cultures The coooting nwnbers ( 1 ,2,3 ... ) can be thought of as a kind of iteration, but only in the most trivial way. It is true that we could produce the counting nwnbers from a recwsive loop; that is, a fimction in which the output at one stage becomes the input for the next: X n + I • X n + I • Bid this is a strictly linear series, increasing by the same amount each time •• the nwneric equiva)ent of a staircase. Addition can, however, producmonlinear series, and there are at least two examples otionlinear additive series in African cultures. The triangular nwnbers ( 1 ,3,6, I o, 1 5...) are used in a game called "tarmnbeta" in east Africa iaslavsky 1973 pp. 1 1 I ). Figure I shows how these nwnbers are derived from the shape of triangles of increasing size, and how the nwneric series can be created by a recursive loop. AS in the case of certain fonnal age. grade initiation practices, the simple versions are used by smaller children, and the higher iterations picked up with increasing age. While there is no indication of a formal relationship in this instance, there is still an underlying parallel between the iterative concept of aging conunon to many Africa cultures - each individual passing through multiple turns of the '1ife-cyde" - and the Iterative nature of the triangular nwnber series. Another nonlinear additive series in was foWid in archaeological evidence from north AfricaBadawy (1965) noted what appears to be use of the Fibonacci series in the layout of the temples of ancient Egypt. Using a slightly different approach, I foood a visually distinct example of this series in the successive chambers of the temple ol\amak, as shown in figure 2a. Figure 2b shows bow these nwnbers can be generated using a recursive loop. This fonnal scaling plan may have been derived from the non-nwneric versions of scaling architecture we see throughout Africa (d. Eglash I 995, Eglash et al 1994). An ancient set of balance weights, apparently used in Egypt, syria and Palestine circa I 20CB.C.E., also appear to employ theFibonacci sequence retruso 1 985). This is a particularly interesting use, since

abstract (20) culture one of the striking mathematical properties of the sequence is that one can create any positive integer through addition of selected members - a property that makes it ideal for application to balance measurements Jtoggatt I 969 pp 7f). There is no evidence that ancient Greek mathematicians knew of the Fibonacci sequence. 1bere was use of the Fibonacci sequence inMinoan design, butPreriosi (1 968) cites evidence indicating that this could have been brought from Egypt byMinoan architectural workers employed at Kalnm. 2) Discrete sett organization inOwari Figure 3a shows a board game that is played throughout Africa in many different versions variously tenned 'ayo," 'bao," "giuthi," ·,e1a," "mancala," 'bmweso," "owari," ·�ei," and "songo" (among many other names). Boards cut into stones, some of extreme antiquity, have been fowid from Zimbabwe to Ethopia (see zaslavsky I 97 3 figure I 1 6 ). The game is played by scooping pebble or seed counters from one cup, and sequentially placing one each in the cups that foUow. The goal is to have the last counter land in a cup with only one or two counters already in it, which allows the player to capture those counters. In the Ghanaian game of Owari, players are known fmutili.ring a series of moves they calJ a "marching group." They note that if the nwnber of cowiters in a series of cups each decrease by one (e.g. 4-3-2-1 ) the entire pattern can be replicated with a right-shift by scooping from the largest cup, and that if left uninterrupted it can propagate in this way as far as needed (figure 3b). AS simple as it seems, this concept of a sett replicating pattern is at the heart of some sophisticated mathematical concepts. John von Neumann, who played a pivotal role in the development of the modem digital computer, was also a founder of the mathematical theory of self organizing systems. Initially vorNeumann's theory was to be based on seu reproducing physical robots. Why work on a theory of sett reproducing machines? J believe the answer can be fowid in von Neumann's social outlook. Heims' ( 1 984) biography emphasizes how the disorder of vorNeumann's precarious youth as a Hungarian Jew was reflected in his adult effons to impose a strict mathematical order in various aspects of the world. In von Neumann's application of game theory to social science, for example, Heims writes that his "Hobbesian" assumptions were "conditioned by 1he abstract (21J culture harsh political realities of his Hungarian existence." His enthusiasm for the use of nuclear weapons against the Soviet union is aJso attributed to this experience. During the Hixon Symposium (vOD Newnann 1951 ) he was asked if computing machines could be built such that they could repair themselves if "damaged in air raids," and replied that ''there is no doubt that one can design machines which, wider suitable circwnstances, will repair themselves." His work on nuclear radiation tolerance for the AEC in 1954-5 included biological effects as weU as machine operation. Putting these facts together, I cannot escape the creepy conclusion that vooNeumann's interest in self-reproducing automata originated in fantasies about having a more perfect mechanical progeny survive the nuclear purging of organic life on this planet. Models for physicaJ robots turned out to be too complex, and at the suggestion of his colleague Stanislaw lllam, von Neumann settled for a graphic abstraction; "cellular automata" as they came to be caUed. Jn this model (figure +a) each square in a grid is said to be either alive or dead (that is, in one of two possible states). 1be iterative rules for changing the state of any one square are based on the eight nearest neighbors (e.g. if 3 or more nearest-neighbors are full, the ceU becomes full in the next iteration). At first researchers carried out on these cellular automata experiments on checkered table cloths with poker chips and dozens of human helpers �ayer-Kress, personal conummication), but by 1970 it had been developed into a simple computer program (Conway's "game of life") which was described by Martin Gardner in his famous ''Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American. 1be "game of life" colwnn was an instant hit, and computer screens all over the world began to pulsate with a bizane array of patterns (figure +b). AS these activities drew increasing professional attention, a wide range of mathematically-oriented scientists began tcreallze that the spontaneous emergence of seH sustaining patterns created in certain cellular automata were excellent models for the kinds of seH organizing patterns that had been so elusive in studies of fluid flow and biological growth. Since scaling structures are one of the h� of both fluid turbulence and biological growth, the occurrence of fJactaJ patterns in cellular automata attracted a great deal of interest. But more simple scaling structure, the logarithmic spiral (figure 5),

abstract 12 2) culture has garnered much of the attention. Even back in the 1 950s mathematician AJan Turing, whose theory of computation provided von Newnann with the inspiration for the first digital computer, began his research on ''biological morphogenesis" with an analysis of logarithmic spirals in growth patterns. Markus ( I 99 1 ) notes that the appUcation areas for cellular automata models of spiral waves include nerve axons, the retina, the surface offertilized eggs, the cerebral conex, heart tissue, and aggregating slime molds. bl the text for CALAB, the first comprehensive software for experimenting with cellular automata, mathematician Rud)Rucker ( 1 989, pp. 1 68) refers to systems which produce paired log spirals as lhabotinskyCAs," after the chemist who first observed such seH organizing patterns in artificial media: "When you look at ZhabotinskyCAs, you a.re seeing very striking three dimensional structures; things Uke paired vonex sheets in the surface of a river below a dam, the scroll pair stretching all the way down to the river bottom .... bl three dimensions, a Zhabotinsky reaction would be Uke two paired nautilus shells, facing each other with their Ups blending. Ttle successive layers of such a growing pattern would build up very like aetus ! .. Figure 6 shows how theowari marching group system can be used as a onedim-nsional cellular automaton to demonstrate many of the dynamic phenomena produced on two-dimensional systems. The Akan and other Ghanaian societies had a remarkable pre-colonial use of logarithmic spirals in iconic representations for seH organizing systems (figure 7a). Ttle Ghanaianspirais and the tow-armed computer graphic in figuresb are quite distant in tenns of the machine technologies that produced produced them, but there may well be mathematical connections between the two. Since cellular automata model the emergence of such patterns in modem scientific studies of Uving systems, and cenain Ghanaian Jog spiral icons were also intended as generalized models for organic growth, it is not unreasonable to consider the possibility that the seH organizing dynamics observable inowari were also linked to concepts of biological morphogenesis in traditional Ghanaian knowledge systems. Rattray's classic volwne on tht'ASante culture of Ghana includes a chapter onowari, but unfonunately it only covers the rules and strategies of the game. Recently Kofi AgUdoawu ( 1 99 1 ) of Ghana has written a booklet onowari "dedicated to abstract (23) culture Africans who are engaged in the fonnidable task of reclaiming their heritage," and he does note its association with reproduction: �ari" in the Ghanaian languageTwi means "he/she marries." Herskovits ( 1 930), noting that the �ari" game played by the descendants of African slaves in the new world had retained some of the pre-colonial cultural associations from Africa, reports thaawari had a distinct "sacred character" to it, particularly involving the carving of the board.OWari boards with carvings of logarithmic spirals (figure 7b) can be commonly found in Ghana today, suggesting that western scientists may not be the only ones who developed an association between discrete seH­ organizing patterns and biological reproduction. h is a bit vindictive, but I can't help enjoying the thought of von Neumann, aposde of a mechanistic New World Order that would wipe out the inational cacophony of living systems, spinning in his grave every time we watch a cellular automaton - whether in pixels or owari cups - bring forth chaos in the games of life. R E FERE N C E S A G U D OAW U , K O F I , R U L E S F O R P LAYI N G O WA R E, K U M A S I : K O F"ITA LL 1 99 1 . BA DAWAY, A , A N C I E NT E GY PT IA N ARC H I T E CT U RAL DESI G N : A STUDY O F" T H E H A R M O N I C S Y S T E M , B E R K E LE Y : U N I V E R S ITY O F C A L I FO R N I A P R E S S , 1 965. E G LA S H , R . , D IATTA , C . , B A D IA N E , N . " f'R A CTA L ST R U CT U R E I N .J O LA MAT E R I A L C U LT U R E , " E K I ST I C S P P , 3 6 7 3 7 1 , V O L 61 N O , 3 6 B/ 3 F"l 9 , S E PT · D E C 1 994, E G LA S H , R , 11 F'R ACTA L G E O M ET R Y I N A F R I C A N M AT E R IA L C U LT U R E ." S Y M M ET R Y : C U LT U R E A N D 5 C IENCE ,V O L 6 · 1 , PP 1 7 4· 1 7 7 , 1 995, F"A G G , W . 11T H E S T U DY O F A F R I C AN A RT ,11 B U L L ET I N O F" T H E ALL E N M E M O R I A L A RT M U S E U!-1, W I N T E R 1 9 5 5 5 6, 1 2 , 44· 6 1 . G I E S , F', , G I E S , J , L E O N A R D O F" P I SA A N D T H E N EW M AT H E M AT ICS O F" T HE M I D D L E A GES. N Y : TH O M A S O R OW E LL 1 9 6 9 , H EI MS, 5 . J J O H N V O N N EUMANN AND N O R B E RT W I E N E R T H E M I T P R E S S , C A M B R I D G E, 1 980, H E R S K OV IT S , M E LV I L LE . 11WA R I I N T H E N EW W O R L D . " P AP E R R E A D AT T H E A M E R I C A N I ST C O N G R E S S , H A M B U R G 1 9 30. H O G G ATT , V , E , F'I B O NA C C I A N D L U C A S NUMBERS. N Y: H O U G HT O N M I FFLI N 1 9 69, M A R K U S , M A R I O . "AUT O N O M O U S O R GA N I Z AT I O N O F" A C H A OT I C M E D I U M

D E S I G N. M O U T O N Z A S LAV S KY , C LA U D I A . A F R I CA C O U N T S B O ST O N : P R I N DL E , W E B E R & S C H M I DT 1 97 3. 1 968. V O N N E U M A N N , J O H N . C D L LECT l �O W O R K S 1 989. G E N E RA L E D I T O R , A . H . TAU B . N EW Y O R K, P E R G A M O N P R E S S , 1 95 1 . 15 ,4 1 Increase count of iterations by I I .. Nnext • � E.! In other words, the next number will be given by the last number plus the iteration count: ..0 0 I °N IO 1:1, c::t (a trivial array, not used in the game) I 3 6 =0+1 = I +2 =3+3 = 6+4 = IO + 5 (starting with N0 =0) l 6 5 · 1 8 6 I N I STVAN N;+t =N;+i A game called "tarumheta" in east Africa makes use of the triangular numbers, starting with 3 (3,6, I 0, 15, .. ). In this game one player calls the count as she or he removes stones consecutively, left to right and bottom to top, while the other player, without looking, must signal whenever the first stone in a row has been removed. 5 R U C K E R , R U DY. C A LA B. S A N J O S E : 4 AUTODESK 1 9BS. 3 INC. 1 0 1 - 1 06, 2 P R E Z I O S I , 0 . M I N OA N A R C H IT E CT U RA L number of iterations: P R E H I ST O R I C MAT H E M A T I C S : A 15 C O N J E C T U R E . " H I S T O R I A MAT H E M AT I C A 10 1 2, 1 99 1 . 6 PET R U S O , K . M . "AD D I T I V E P R O G R E S S I O N I N 3 ( E D S ) S P I R A L S Y R M M ET R Y, L O N D O N : number of stones: W O R L D S C I E NT I F I C • •• • ••• •• • ••••• •••• •••• •• • ••• ••• •• H A R G ITT A l A N D C L I F F O R D F' I C K O V E R The stones in each triangular array can be built up in an iterative fashion, that is, the next triangle can be created by adding another layer to any side of the previous triangle. The number to he added in each additional layer is simply the number of iterations. For each iteration I, and total number of stones N. we have: I N T O S P I RA L S . " P P . Figure 1 The triangular numbers in an East African game abstract 124) culture

absuact 126) culture abstract (27) culture Figure 2 The Fibonacci series in ancient Egypt The Fibonacci series ( 1, 1.2,3,5,8, 13 ... ) was found by Badawy ( I 965) in his study of the layout of the temples of ancient Egypt. His analysis was quite complex, but it is not difficult to create a simple visualization. Here we see the series in the succesive chambers of the temple of Kamak. The Fibonacci series is produced by adding the previous number to the current number to get the next number, starting with I+ I =2. For each iteration I, the number N in the series is given by: Nj+I =Ni+ Nj-1 (that is, N next Nprevious) 1+1=2 1+2=3 2+3=5 3+5=8 5+8=13 c::,= == a Gray rectangles added for measurement 2 3 5 = Ncurrent + 8 u � Nprevious N current ext 1 3

Scoop from the first cup, and plant one counter in each succeeding cup The owari board has 12 cups, plus one on each side for captured counters. This board is hinged in the center, with a beautifully carved cover (figure 7b) � §, <;I) � Q. 'N � 000000 000000 =­ 00 0@@880 e. The Marching Group is replicated with a right-shift. Repeated application will allow it to propagate around the board �II� A period-4 pattern. Periods of any length can be produced, as we saw in the previous examples of pseudorandom number generation Detenninistic chaos, in which the pattern never repeats {i.e. a period-infinity pattern), is also possible. Iteration 49 • b A constant-growth pattern, shown in high-resolution, looks similar to the cross-section of an internal organ. The rules: a dead cell becomes a live cell if it has 3 Iive nearest neighbors, and a cell dies only if it has 7 or 8 live neighbors. Figure 3 Owari � ea s � � i -§ Iteration 182

[ . . . . . � '( ' North African sheep, from Cook (19 I 4). Bivalve shell from Haeckel (1904). c Logarithmic spirals often occur in natural growth fonns. Figure 4 Cellular Automata This is called a "period-2" pattern. � � This stable pattern flips back and forth between these two states. . � b. This four-armed logarithmic spiral from Markus ( 1991) was produced by a six-state cellular automaton in which a sequence of ghost states correspond to increasingly dark shades of gray. The system makes use of a very high-resolution grid, as well as some random noise to prevent the tendency for the patterns to follow the grid shape (as in the square contours of the spiral above). � a. Paired spirals emerge from a three-state cellular automaton. Black cells are live, white cells are dead, and grey cells are in a refractory or "ghost" state. The rules: Any dead nearest neighbors of a live cell become live in the next iteration. and any live cell goes into the ghost state in the next iteration. Ghost cells become dead cells in the next iteration. The refractory layer acts as a memory, providing the directed growth (i.e. the breaking of symmetry) needed to create a spiral pattern. a � a. In the cellular automaton called "the game of life," each cell in the grid is in one of two states: live or dead. Here we see a live cell in the center, surrounded by dead cells in its eight nearest neighbors. The state of each cells in the next iteration is determined by a set of rules. In "classic" life (the rules first proposed by John Horton Conway), a dead cell becomes a live cell if it has 3 live nearest neighbors, and a cell dies unless it has 2 or 3 live neighbors. � Figure 5 Spirals in Cellular Automata w § e. � � � � a 3 0 � t � � rlJ i This initial condition produces a fixed pattern after four iterations. The patterns occuring before it settles down to stability are called the "transient."

-> 13 iterations -> 4 3 Which patterns lead to marching groups, and which ones lead to periodic cycles? 2 I I -> 2 2 -> 3 I -> 2 1 I The marching group rule can also produce periodic behavior (a "limit cycle" or "periodic attractor" in nonlinear dynamics terms). Here is a period-3 system using only four counters: Just as we saw in two-dimensional cellular automata, transients of many different lengths can be produced. Transients of maximum length are used as an end-game tactic by indigenous Ohanian players, who call it "slow motion" -- accumulating pieces on your side to prevent your opponent from capturing them. In nonlinear dynamics the constant pattern is called a "point attractor," and the transients would be said to lie in the "basin of attraction." 2 Behavior (after transients) ! ............ ....... Marching 2.. .... .. .. ... . .Period 2 3 .. . . . ... ... ... Marching 4 . ... ... . .. . ..Period 3 5 ... . . ... . . ..Period 3 6 .... .. .. . .. . Marching ? ... .................... Period 4 8 ..................... ..Period 4 9.. ......... . ..... ...Period 4 10 .. ... ..... . . .. Marching 11..... .. .... .. Period 5 12 ... . . . .... . ....Period 5 13 .... . .. . . Period 5 14........ ... . . . . Period 5 15 ..... ............ ...Marching Total number of counters (Note -- some sequences will be truncated for 13, 14, and 15 since there are more counters than holes) The period of the cycles in-between each marching group is given by three plus the iteration level of the previous triangular number reached. The numbers which lead to marching groups -1, 3, 6, 10, 15 .. -- should look familar to readers: it s the triangular numbers we saw in Tarumbeta! 3 4 2 1 ·> 5 3 2 -> 4 3 I I I -> 4 2 2 2 ·> 3 3 3 I -> 4 4 2 -> 5 3 I I -> 4 2 2 I I -> 3 3 2 2 -> The marching group is an example of a constant pattern. Here we see counters in the initial sequence 3421 converge on their marching formation simply by repeating the "scoop from the left cup" rule through 13 iterations. 2 4 3 3 -> 4 4 I 1 -> 5 2 2 I ·> 3 3 2 1 1 ·> 4 3 2 I 4 The patterns noted by traditional owari players offer a great deal of insight into self-organizing behavior. Their observation of a class of self-propagating patterns. the "marching group," provides an excellent starting point. 3 000000 O@@CD80 We can view the owari board as a one-dimensional cellular automaton. One dimension is not necessarily a disadvantage; in fact most of the professional mathematics on cellular automata (cf. Wolfram 1984, 1985) have been done on one-dimensional versions, because it is easier to keep track of the results. They can show all the dynamics of two dimensions. Figure 6 Owari as one-dimensional cellular automaton 000000 @@Q)000 � 5. w � ; §, e. ! w .!:: §, �

abstract (34) cultwe Figure 7 Logarithmic curves and owari abstract 13 5) culture A F" R I C A I N T H E O R I G I N S O F" B I NARY C O DE D R . R O N E G LA S H "The relationship between what we do as physicists today and the future that ow work engenders is dialogical in the sense that not only do ow present actions detennine what ow futwe will be, but we must be ever mindful of the impact of ow present actions on the future. • .Through ow moral responsibility and awareness of signals and trends, we in effect, 'listen' to what the future has to tell us. "(Donnell Walton, Chair , National Conference of Black Physics students I 995.) a. Several Ghanian iconic figures, such as this goldweight, link a spiritual force with the structure of Jiving systems through logarithmic spirals. Photo courtesy of the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History While the temporal traditions of African societies were frequently cited by colonialists as evidence for primitive superstition, they appear today in quite the opposite context: mathematical analyses of traditional African designs, techniques and knowledge systems indicate a wide array of sophisticated indigenous inventions. Llke Paul Gilroy's fractal Adantic,Donnel Walton's invocation of African divination tra<litions- of listening to the future- is not only useful in its call for greater ethical responsibility, but also as a remindefo the surprising liw between traditional knowledge and modern science. The modem binary code, essential to every digital circuit from alann locks to super computers, was first introduced by Leibniz arolllld 1 670. b. The cover of the hinged owari board we saw in figure 3 shows concentric circles emanating from the Adinkra icon for the power of god, "Gye Nyame." A similar icon, without the logarithmic curves, is attributed to a closed fist as a symbol of of power. The Gye Nyame symbol thus appears to be a pair of logarithmic curves held in in a fist: God holding the power of life. Leibniz has been inspired by the binary-based 'logic machine' of Raymond Lull, which was in tum inspired by the alchemists' divination practic*> geomancy (Skinner 1 980). Butgeomancy is Clearly not of European origin. u was first introduced there by Hugo of Santana in tweHth century Spain and tslamic scholars had been using it in North Africa since at least the f/' century, where it was first docwnented in written records by the Jewish writer Aran ben Joseph. Geomancy is traditionall)Practiced by drawing patterns in the sand. u begins with fow sets of random dashed lines. These are paired off d,e. summed by addition module two), and the even/odd results recorded with two strokes or one stroke. Fow of these binary digits represents one of 1 6 possible divination archetypes (ruler, travel, desire, etc.) Although the first four are generated by this random process, the following 12 are created by recursively applying the same pairing operation on the binary digits making up the four symbols (a

abstract 136) culture process which can be seen in many other areas of African knowledge systems, c.f. Eglash 1 995). The nearly identical system of divination in West Africa associated with Fa an<lfa was first noted by Trautman ( 1 939), but he asswned tha�mancy originated in Arabic society, where it is known as ilm alraml ("the science of sand"). lbe mathematical basis ofgeomancy is however, strikingly out of place in non-African systems. Llke other linguistic codes, nmnber bases tend to have an extremely long historical persistence. 'die ancient Greeks held I o to be the most sacred of all nwnbers; the Kabbalah'sAyin Sof emanates by I o Sefirot and the Christian west COWlts on its "Hindu­ Arabk" decimal notation. In ancient Egypt, on the other band, base 2 calculation was ubiquitous, even for multiplication and division, andzaslavsky ( 1 9 73) notes archeological evidence linking it to the use of doubling in the counting systems of subSuharan Africa. Kautzsch ( 1 9 1 2) notes that bothDiodorus Siculus and =CbUan reported that the ancient Egyptian priests "employed an image of truth cut in halves. " Doubling is a frequent theme in African divination and many other African knowledge systems, connecting the sacredness of twins, spirit doubles, and double vision with material objects, like the blacksmith's twin bellows and the double iron hoe given in bridewealth. Jo a recent inteniew in Wired, Brian Eno daimed that the problem with computers is that they "don't have enough African in them". Eno was, no doubt, trying to be compUmentary, saying that adaptive rhythm and flexibility is a valuable attribute of African culture. But in doing so he obscured the cultural origins of digital computing, and did an injustice to the very concept he was trying to convey. Take, for example, Henry Louis Gates' ( 1 988, pp. 30) use of a recursive doubling description when discussing the relations between divination and sexuality in West African traditions: The Fon and Yoruba escape the Westemcersion of discursive sexismthrought he action of doubling the double: the nwnber 4 and its multiples are sacred in Yoruba metaphysics.�u'S two sides udisclose a hidden wholeness, " rather than closing off unity, through the opposition, they signify the passage hom one to the other as sections ofa subslUTJed whole. abstract (3 7) cuJture The binary coding of traditional African knowledge systems, like that of their antecedents in modem computing networks, is neither rigid nomhythmic; its beat is a heritage heard by those who listen to the future. R E F" E R E N C E S E G LA S H , R . ' A F" R I CA N I N F" LU E N C E S I N C Y B E R N ET I C S . " I N C . H . G RAY ( E D) THE C YBDRG HA NDBDDK G AT E S , H . L . THE SIGNIFYING MDNKEV G I LR OY, P. THE BLACK A TLA N TI C KAUT Z S C H , T. ''U R I M " , £NCYL DPEDIA DF RE LIGIDUS KNDWLEDGE. S K I N N E R , 5 . TERRESTRIA L A S TRDL D G Y. TRAU T M A N N , R . " LA D I V I N AT I O N A LAC O T E D E S E S C LAV E S ET A M A DA G A S C A R , L E V o o a u , LE F" A , LE S I K I OY . " ME:MDRIES D E L 11NSTITUT FRANCA IS D 'A FRIQUE ND/RE. Z A S LAV S KY , C LADIA. A FRICA CDUNTS

abstract 138) culture TA L ES FR O M TH E C TH U L H U C L U B . The following materials are taken from the archiYes of the MassachusettsCthu/hu Club. They have been included here due to their ohYioUB relevance to the themes of this volwne. hi each case, however, status andprovenance must be described as 1U1cenain. - The Vault of Munnurs. 1)'pedMS, archfre date 1949, attribution: E.StiJJwell. The three appendices to t/Jls ten, at1ached in the MS, are nearly identical to conesponding sections ofSti1Jwe0'5 monwnental Decrypting the Nma Nwnogram (1954), for which they appe,ar to he preliminary drafts, lending some �uppon to the attribution of authorship given here. - � from theMiskatonic Bunker-Hotel. 1)'ped MS, archive date I 996, attribution: lfnknown. This document was brought to the attention of ecru in an e-mallfrom Simon BiddelJ. ecru takes no responsibilityfor the allegations made about Professor Barker, or his work. - The Templeton Episode. TypedMS, arc/JiJ'e date 1966, attribution: lfnknown. The apparent inconsistency between the dating ofthis tem and the datesit contains raises considerable perple.zity, which ecru - despite eiten5ire communication with the Cthu/hu Club archwes - has been unable to resolve. TH E VA U LT OF MURMURS She bore another monster, terrible, hi a hollow cave, Echidna, fierce ofheart, NothingUke anymonal man, unlike Anyimmortalgod, haff ofher Js a lair.c/Jeeked/{id with glancing e)'eS, but haU ls a huge and frill/Jtening speckled snake, she eats Raw Desh in a recess of the holy earth Down there she has a cave ofhollow rock Far from the dept/Jless gods and mona/ men, There the gods gave a famous home to her. Andgloomy Echidna keeps her watch down there Vnder theground, among theA.rimol, A nymph immonal and ageless all her days. - Hesiod, 'Theogony" I think now, looking back, that the dreams' return can be dated to I 925, the moment of my arrival in the Sm1da Strait. It began as insidious seepage, waves of vaguely familiar but disconnected fragments, whose secret cohesion I could dimly perceive. abstract 139) culture I had been drawn to theMu N'Ma by their reputed traditions of dream-sorcery, which offered a singular opponunity for converting my studies of Freud and Frazer into practical field work. Although it might seem ironical that a student of Freud could be so oblivious to their subtenanean motivations, 1 shared with my generation a profOlmd and Wlquestioning faith in the spirit of objective scientific inquiry, and little suspected (or bad forgotten) the deeper currents guiding a Ufelong interest in the phenomena of dreams. The N'Ma people had gained some public noteriety through their role in the strange case of Cecil Curtis. I myseH had first learned of thtMu through tantalising references in the burgeoning literature that had transfonned the events of Curtis' ill.fated expedition into something of a modem myth. Most of these accounts had underplayed the role of the two other tribes in theN'Ma system, but the occasional hint about theMu and their dream rites was more than sufficient to provoke in me an interest that would quickly shade into obsession. By the time I arrived in Indonesia, the trlpartittN'Ma system was in shreds • In totally annibilating one tribe • Curtis's Tak N'Ma • and all but destroying another - the Dib N'Ma • the 1 883 e.xplosion of Krakatoa had wrecked the complex web of social exchange on which the Mu had traditonally depended. An atmosphere of terrible desolation overtnmg them, and I could be under no illusion that the Mu were little more than a shadow of what they had been in the days prior to the cataclysm. These were a haWJted people, whose continuing survival seemed a dubious blessing at best. In this apocalyptic atmosphere, it was inevitable that my thoughts should increasingly turn to the days inunediately preceding the catastrophe, and to its herald, Cecil Curtis. Followingeurtis's footsteps into N'Ma territory, I read the famous few surviving fragments of his journal with a renewed sense of puu.Jement and disquiet. None of the speculations on Curtis' final days had, to my mind, adequately made sense of the peculiar trajectoryhis delirium took. The lay observer might be tempted to think his words mere ravings, but for those, like myseH, who had fallen under Freud's spell, the compulsion to search for the hidden logics that guide and structure supposedly random manias is irresistable. What dart ereots coalesced

abstract 140) culture abstract (4 1) culture to produce CUrtis' madness? I read key passages over and over again: experienced them them many times before, and was only now remembering them. I 7th July I 883. J know now t/Jat I wiJJ never leave this place. The jungle is rotting me into nothingness. My supplles are exhausted. Clouds ofmosquitoes tom1ent me and I am plagued by t/Je polUldiog, crushing, smotheringheat The intense, oppressively subdued atmosphere that benighted Mu N'Ma culture was in every way at odds with the excitement that leapt into my heart as I learned more about it. hwas inunediately evident that Mu culture was indeed based upon a system of dream magic, in which the Nago - or dream witch - occupied an exalted position. 1be Nago fulfills a wide-ranging oracular function idlu culture. Medicine, the settlement of disputes, advice and counsel; all are in the Dream Witch's power. lbose who sought her wisdom would make solitary pilgrimages to the temple, bearing appropriate gifts. A shnple ritual follows, during which they offer sacrifices and make requests. On the night foUowing - it is said - they receive a Nagwi or dream visit. 281/J July /883 J have broken hom everything, in any case partidpated in something abominable ... behind t/Je tattered masks ofman and God. Christian cM/izadon is no better I/Jan t/Je prandnlf of savage,s ... How could hlUllan fellowship exist aher this? By now, the Tak N'Ma's ferocity is legendary: they were ''the most WlSpeakable savages on earth", according to one of CUrtis's lessethnographkally sensitive biographers. The same source remarked that the Tak N'Ma rites "could not be contemplated by any decent Christian without risk of the loss of his mind." These practices, coupled with the ravages of the malaria which afflicted Cortis in his final days, would have been enough to completely unhinge any European male, even one as famously thick-skinned as Cecil 'Mad Dog' Cortis. But curds seemed, in the end, to confront an awful revelation whose enormous horror could not be reduced to these two factors; rather, the disease and therak rituals were themselves, be seemed to imply, part of some senseless pattern in which his whole JHe was always fated to be engulfed. 24tl1August /883 Needless to say, the Limbic Key continue,s to elude me. J strongly suspect it is a Jiction. The Order are pursuing a chimera - the sense of destinyhas not depaned, however. on the contrary, I was meant to be here, irrespective of the motives oft/Jose who sentme. Other forres were at work. Ihave been chosen since the belflnnlnK of time. curse this blasphemous fate. My daytime obsession with CUrtis transferred easily into dreams in which CUrtis featured heavily; in terribly vivid nightmares I sometimes felt I was meeting CUrtis; at other times, I had the llllcanny conviction that I was seeing the jwigle landscape through his fever-darkened eyes. Given the circumstances, these nocturnal encOllllters were hardly llllfflotivated, but the dreams had a naggingly intimate quality about them. As if I had It is said of theNago that she never speaks, except in dreams. When I asked to visit theNago, the Mu elders merely nodded, showing neither enthusiasm nor hostility. They greeted my entreaty with the same sense of fated inevitabUty with which they seemed to accept all matters. 1be Nago's temple is located on the side of a cliff, an hour's trek through thick jungle. Fittingly for a people whose deity,Mur Mur, is a sea creature - a "dreaming serpent", it is sometimes said - the temple looks out upon the ocean. As I was guided through the primeval vegetation, I thought once more of Cecil Curtis and theTak N'Ma. I J th August I 883 The language of 1/Je-se savages iB impenetrable. Theynowpromise to 'take me toKatak. ' To meet myself, therefore! Or per/Jap5 a rabid dOl1f! The fatal irony of this entry has ohen been remarked upon by conunentators. curtis would only understand the N'Ma's taxonomy too late. Curdi's Christian thinking would have been little assistance in unravelling theTak belief system; the fact that the Tak's god, Katak, was manifested in dogs, volcanoes and indeed Curtis himseU could only appear nonsensical to a man of his time and background. Curtis must have at first assumed that tht'fak's apparent reverence for him was the natural response of "savages" to their "betters." He could not have suspected, as he wasannointed by 1he Taks, that he was destined to be 1he sacrificial harbinger of tbeTaks' ultimate destruction. Perhaps

abstract (42) culture it was only towards the end that he realised that his arrival and the apocalyptic eruption oKrakatoa had always been coincident inTak folklore: their tribal stories said that "the Fiery End" would be the heralded by the arrival of the ''white Katak" - 'Mad DOg' Curtis. 27th August J 883 The le.-er has mehed away the walls between waking and sleep. Consciousness has become a loat/J5ome log. J sen5e that the ince,ssant nunbling of rolcanic actimy is co1UJected with the nsions thatplague me constantlynow .... h felt as iiI were carried down my spine .... Thinl{s ancient beyond Jmaginadon .... beyond the ultimate gate ofruin andinsanity ... oceam ofsubtenanean lire ... so Curtis' final days became a veritable journey into heU. 1be Curtis biography I had with me in Indonesia contained facsbniles of the journal, showing a marked decline in the handwriting. By the end, the hand was so spidery that one was almost tempted to query the attribution • could this barely legible scrawl have been produced by the same individual? My head slill full of Curtis, I was led into the vault of Munnurs, the sacred cavern below thtfiago temple in which the Dream Witch receives her supplicants. 1be Nago sat at the other end of the grotto, folded into its deep shadows. Feeling a sense of wicanny familiarity, I asked the inevitable question. "Where was Curtis taken?" TheNago nodded, and left, her silence Wlbroken, in accordance with custom. The next morning, I awoke to a feeling of immense anti-climax. I ransacked my mind for traces of the previous night's dreams, recalling nothing. Yet through this almost painful disappointment, older memories surfaced, dating • I sensed with icy cenainty . from my seventh year. u was the night of the Century's Eve, 31st December, 1 899. (No Freudian scbolar can miss the significance of the year 1 899 • the date of the first pubUcadon of The Interpretation ofDreaIIJ6) A female voice spoke. "Edlidna, Echidna, wake up." I had assumed - ''previously'', if such a time­ designation makes any sense • that this was the voice of my mother. Now I knew it was the voice of the Nago, speaking to in my own tongue. Bllt I was no longer sure to whom • or what • it was addressed. I was entirely carried away. My body felt impossible. Touching my face, I encoW1tered only abstract (43) culture the features and limbs of a little girl. Below the waist, however, all was confusion, snaking endlessly into itseH, or rather, into depths beyond sense, traversed by languid spinal waves that culminated in a distant hint of a tail. My dream body floated in what appeared to be an widersea cavern. As I lay there, I beheld, moving toward me with grim purpose, a raft carrying a solemn, spectral party. I recognised, from the many b� recowitlng the CUrtis legend, the crimson markings and ceremonial masks of th«ak N'Ma. And on the raft with them - reclining in a malarial swoon, dressed inTak ritual garb - was the wimistakable figwe of Cecil CUrtis. They were bringing him to me. Except I was dissolving, becoming indistinguishable from the water which held me. And when I turned again to where CUrtis bad been but a moment ago, I heard only anguished gargles: the growls and snarls of some creature that seemed to be part dog, pan cat, barely hwnan. I felt claws in what should have been my side. 1ben there was a plume of blood which I at first thought was mine, but when I looked again, I saw it goutlng from the other creature's flesh, which, I was suddenly aware, was becoming absorbed into me • even as my body was losing any sense of its limits. Warped perceptions danced past my dream eyes. Darting acceleration and abyssal slowness fused in a wboU/ unfamiliar time-sense. I suddenly became aware of the cydopean edifices of a lost civilization; though "civilization" scarcely seemed the word for the alien vistas that swam before me, swanning city­ shoals quivering with a wholly inorganic animation. something told me, a whisper or an intuition - in that dreaming ocean both blended utterly • that this was the Jost continent of Lemuria, speculated upon by contemporary archaeologists and mystics. What was left of my mammal body flickered out of focus; it felt clwnsy - all fingers and thmnbs. As I looked down at my hands, they became transluscent, and I saw, inscribed into the impossible geometries of the dream cave's wall beyond, an arrangement of ten circles, a nwnber of smaller circles, and a series of interconnecting lines. This was my first encowiter with what came to be called the Nwnogram. n was only later that I was able to uncover the numeric relations encrypted in its ancient patterns - the dream showed me only the

abstract f44) cuJture shapes and their relations. But, even in those early, hallucinatory minutes, as I made my first hurried transcriptions of the dream-image, I knew that I had in front of me a key that would lUllock all the secrets of my life. A labyrinth had opened up, a labyrinth whose complexities could be contained no more by ow supernaturalisms than by ow sciences. It was a labyrinth in which my fate - and that of the N'Ma, Cecil eurtis, and more cosmic presences • had always been tangled together. I was wiraveUed in this maze of coincidences, and could do nothing but foUow its threads forever. I. Nwnogram and OIZ Cbaiim. To those familiar with the Western Magical nadition, it is likely that the .Numogram will initially evoke the Qabbalistic Tree of Llfe. Both are constructed as decimal diagrams, involving webs of connectivity between ten basic zones, mysteriously twisted into a cryptic ultra-cycle (that links upper and lower regions). Both treat names as nwnbers, andmnnerize by digital reduction and cumulation. Both include passages across abysmal waters and through infernal regions. 80th map zones onto spinal levels. Despite these manifoldinterlinkages, there are compelling reasons to consider the nee of life a scrambled variant of �ogram, rather than a parallel system. During its long passage through Adantean and posMdantean hennetic traditions the systematic distortions of the Nwnogram (introduced to confuse the wlinhiated) gradually hardened into enoneous doctrines, and a dogmatic image of the nee. Most evidently, a vulgar distribution of the munbers - in thehexoteric COW1ting-0rder - was substintted (redtmdandy) for the now esoteric munogrammatical distribution, which proceeds in accordance with hrunanent criteria (the web emergingqabbalisitically from the wne-nwnbers themselves). More devastatingly, the orginal consistency of nwneracy and language seems to have been fractwed at an early stage, introducing a division between the nwnber of the Sephiroth ( I O) and that of the Hebrew alphabet (22). 1be result was a break between the nodes of the tree and the interconnecting paths, ruining all prospect of decipherment. The8ephiroth segmented over,aganist their connections - become static and structural, whilst the paths Jose any rigorous principle of allocation. A strictly analogous outcome is evident in the segmentation of the Tarot into Major mid MinorArcana. lnereasingly desperate, arbitrary, and mystifying attempts to re­ wlite the nwnbers and their linkages seems to have bedevilled all succeeding occult traditions. abstract 145) culture 2. Numogram and / CbiJJg. There is considerable evidence, both inunanent and historical, that 1he chinese / Chingand the Nma nwnogram share a hypercultural matrix. Both are associated with intricate zygonomies, or double-munbering systems, and process abstractproblematics involving subdivisions of decimal anay5 (as suggested by the Ten Wings of traditional I Cbing commentary). Digital reduction of binary power8itabllizes in a six­ step cycle (With the values 1 , 2, +, 8, 7, 5). These steps correspond to the lines of the hexagram, and to the time-circuit woes of theNmnogram, producing a binodecimal 6-cycle (Which is also generated in reverse byquintuplicative nwnbering). In both cases a supplementary rule of pairing Is followed, according to azygonovic criterion (9twinning of reduced values: 8: I , 7:2, 5:+, mapping the hexagram line pairs). The nwnogram time-cirruit, or I Ching hexagam, bnplictly associates zero with the set of exduded triadic values. u is intriguing In 1his respect that numerous indications point to an early struggle between triadic and binary nwnbering practices in ancientchinese culture, suggesting that the binary domination of dedmaJ nwneracy systematically produces a triadic residue consistent with nullity. The hexagram itseH exhibits obvious tension in this respect, since it reinserts a triadic hyperfactor into the reducedbinodigital set (compowided by its swnmation to twenty-seven, or the third power of three). An ancient binotriadic parallel to the / Ching called the T'aiHsull/l C/Jing(or BoOk of the Great Dark) consisted of eighty-onetetragrams, reversing the relation offoregrounded and implicit numerical values. The division of Lalll'se's Tao Te C/Jinginto eighty-one sections suggests that this munerical confUct was an animating factor in 1he early history of Taoism. 3. Ethnography of the Nma . Nma culture cannot be decoded without the key provided by the Lemurian Time-Maze. 111e influence of a hyper triadic criterion of time is evident in the relics of Nma kinship organization,calendrics, and associated rituals. Prior to the calamity of 1 883, the Nma consisted of true tribes (tripartite macrosocial divisions). They were distributed in a basic tridentity (interlocking large-scale groupings into Tak- MU· and Dib-Nma), supported by a triangulrupatrilocal marriage. cycle. Each marriage identified a woman with a numogram cunent, or time-passage. Tak-Nma women marrying into theMu-Nma, Mu-Nina ditto Dib-Nma, Dib-Nma

abstract 146) culture ditto Tak-Nma).' 5 The common calendar of all three tribes was based upon azygotriadic system (Using 6 digits to divide a double-year period of 729 days into fractional powers of three). Tilffllu-Nma still employ such a calendar today. (The currenMu­ Nma calendar is adjusted by regulaintercalations of three additional days every second cycle, or four years. Tbe earlier practice of intercalations is not easily recoverable). hl the rituals of theNma the time-circuit is concretized as a hydro-cycle: a division and recombination of the waters. The three stages of this recurrent transmutation are, I ) the undivided waters (oceanic), 2) cloud-building !evaporation), and 3) down-pour (Precipitation, river-flOW). 11lese are associated with the great sea-beast �ur Mur), the lurker of steaming swamps Pddubb), and that which hunts amongst the raging storms ,Wtak). The cycle is closed by a return to the abysmal waters, intrinsically linking the order of time, and its recurrence, to an ulmnate cataclysm (Prior to any opposition of cyclic and apocalyptic time). h is in this context that the transcultural delugemythos can be restored to its aboriginal sense (which also corresponds to the HinduTrimurli, with its three stages of creation, preservation and destruction). abstract 14 7) culture L EAKS F"ROM T H E M ISKATO N I C B U NK E R - H OT E L. Notes, fractions, random thoughts, night dreams, psychic leakage...Dr Sarkon, darkness, Miskatonic b\Ulker-hotel: 8/8/00... canto s . wonn bomb: re recent shredding of old, dearth text said to be hidden off far Eastern island nr Krakatoa. Professor Barker had been there; seen something; now disappeared; feared dead or at le-ast cryogenically frozen by a government who feared the worst. 1bey said he'<incanted a phrase • maybe three . that1111001101zzzzzzoo1oyyyy \sorry, laptop tenninal spluttered, word sense juddered) rendered temporal fold/lapse and newological dispersion into psychedelically altered Pan-state left screaming. Natives of island knew how to control this; at least keep it at bay. Tel1 had fallen into hands of a cargo cult then somehow all traces Jost. Tbe us of Americas was mentioned; CIA sunnised fledgling blackmail story that Barker was cloned and that at least two were wreaking tmhingedness in the West somewhere. But the damage had already been done long before. Money had gone into my account - a payoff from The (green) Fuzz to somehow keep quiet. I doubt it... Must hide these cuttings...Jan 8th, 00. Japanese trawler men find strange stone bas-relief in fishing net. Archaeologists date it as pre-history and, think. to followers ofDagon. May, oo. New York. Insurance agent sent to trace missing pulp thriller writer folOld drained of bone marrow in abandoned cinema. 1 2th Jui, oo. British government refuses asylum to defonned spine children from Rwnanian leper colony as civil war reconvenes ••. So the story was true? And we'd been given to think it was a fiction. His cheeks exploded rudlo' filled with an alwninium nail cluster. 1 6THE AN CIENT CHINESE G A ME KNOWN A!!I PA �Clf1 !!!JCl!!!J!!!JC,lf!!!J, !!!J TONC l!X H l l!IIT!!! Ol!IVIOU!!! CULTURAL AF"F"I NITY WITH THIS SYBTEM, An eminent Victorian scientist and radical free thinker unlocks ancient evol (beyond time and space). Girl had daughter or, should that read.•.? Married into English aristocracy who now hold key to terrible secrets. Most of apocalyptic events of 20th Century directly responsible tdlavok unleashed by said Victorian and hiddeq>sych.fea,. Nazis, Mau Maus, Pol Pot, Amin, mere distractions to throw us off the scent of something reall)fuckin' bad. This w1holy 'family' is widespread 1hrougbout England, Massachusetts and parts of Udluania. Just

abstract l48J culture think, the limey aristocracy responsible for the impending... Barker knew this (so he shouJd). So his intentions were good? In the limited sense of the vocabulary, yes, at least we think so. What was shredded then? Papers. Papers? Journals, jottings, notes. Some strange group vaguely affiliated to aneldritch department of a hidden English University had stumbled accidentally and chemically - onto similar. Threat was thwarted before it was too late. Group sought to cause similar disruption through platfonns deemed popuJartho' unpopular with authorities. Filled graphic novels, stories with K-cantos: audience wouJd Wlbeknowingly recite. bnagine if we'd had let this ouflJeeesh. They'd created a whole pantheon of gods -Mur Mur, Katak. the like • thing is, what these limey schmucks didn't realise was that these things actuallyfucldn' existed. We call it the poetic parallel f'as above, so below'' the idea's been arO\md for centuries) - if it's i{fl' head it's there cos It exists! Then it's only a matter of b ringing it out. See? Magic, technology, drugs, sex even fuckin' yoga - anystimulus11 do the job. Barker knew this (so he should). What happened to the group? They had to be eliminated, taken out. Liquidated? No, people wouJd become suspicious. They were branded insane · neutralised - made outcasts: this was the most effective way. We're still mopping up the trails, some as far off as Czechoslovakia, Southern F.ngland. You should leave now. Haven't you got to be in Washinton? Thanks for the drink. .. 1be future was inevitable. He knew this now. Like a laser moving onto its target. Fixed. Impenetrable yet lucidly clear. The FUzz knew what Barker was. Barker probably was The FUzz. Interchangeable. Waiting outside that hidden door. He hadn't been abstract 149) culture cloned. This was puerile gossip, a fact-licmythed about by rogue FUzz sentinels \d-railed in the distant 60s fracas) linkedvagu)ey to a Colombian cane) �aid off in snow). Fact: cocaine was seriously destabilising Western economies but too many politicians had a habit. Make note... deface from journal: that's another story. Barker was real, as far as you could call anything real. A seH-replicat:hlllJroto-eluvial organism probably been here 65 million years - landed from distant star, far beyond our galaxy; maybe :first asleep in ice caves wider earth's crust - a spore, woken by said natives of islanchr Krakatoa after earth shift thousands of years before. Records what still exist - show him appearing throughout history at key points ...possibly one of Barker'$clls was emminent Victorian who messed up real good. Then in the latter part of our time Barker had set up DigiGenetech software engineering and completely dominated (read decimated) global markets. Spiked email; vicious clown simulation games; horror typing packages; sinistenentacled datasavers...Wbat a perfect way to �s; every little programme encoded with somefuckin' sooth; each key pressed; every mouse click phasing energy, strengthening our oldest, lUUlameable enemy; debilitating our own already debilitated senses... Part of Barker had learned to love humanity; part of him to pity it, but by then it was too late anyway. 1tle gossamer thin mesh of cosmic time and space had been wrenched. Each little diversion was wearing us thinner. The journal was stained with slightly browning sweat, old fashioned papeagliche this time. 1tlese leads keep disappearing into each other and now I'm not so sure. 1tle stars look even more bright tonight. A comet flashed past, illuminating the whole of the town - it's tail orange, fizzing pink. Fax is chucking out reruns of unintelligible script. Am awaiting next move. Anticipate call from FUzz operatives. Any time now. Carnival would be starting soon. 1tle inhabitants ofDunwich would celebrate this every year as they had done for hlllldreds of years ever since the festival was introduced by travellers who returned from Easter island late 1 6th Century. Tobias Barker, merchant, was one of those travellers. Children flashed past the window: screaming, laughing. Partly hidden by street lamps; their faces masked in some strange amalgam of <;Ottoo, wood and plastic. It's already beginning...

abstract (50) culture abstract (5 1 ) culture THE T E M P LETON E P I SO D E I tbought I heard a knock at the door. Room service? The name of Profesor Randolph Edmwid Templeton is inextricably tangled with the secret perplexities of time. It was he who, by way of a yet barely comprehended time-anomaly, provided the model for HP wvecrah's Randolph carter ... And yet it was this 'same' RETempleton who . on March 2 1 st 1 999, whilst delivering a lecture aHiskatonic devoted to a rigorous critique of HG WeUs - awoke suddenly as the Thing that lurks behind the mask of Immanuel Kant, coincident�scoverering the transcendental time-machine. Templeton sits inunobile in his attic room, inunersed in the deceptively enatic ticking of bis old nautical clock, lost in meditation upon JC Chapman's hennetic engraving. h now seems that this complex image, long accepted as a pomait of Kant, constitutes a disturbing monogram of bis own chronological predicament. AS if in mockery of stable framing, the picture is surrOWJded by strange-loopcoilings of Ouraboros, the cosmic snake , who traces a figure of eight • and of moebian eternity • by endlessly swallowing itseH. suspended from its lower jaw is a Cl')ptic device of intricately balanced circles and stars (ancient symbols of the AOE). Above thesepent's head, a facsimile of Kant is etched in profile, the face fixed in an amiable • if distant • expression. What was it though, that hid behind the death-mask, where it cut-off, below and behind the jaw, false ear, and double hair-line? What was this peculiarly fonnless body, shadowy neck.flesh, and suggestion of a cervical fin? AS he stared, and hideously remembered, Templeton felt as though he knew. Templeton has Jong asserted the impossibility of empirical time-travel. Since the ego is bowid by its own nature to linear�entiality (he continues to insist) neither it nor the organism is ever transported through time. Nevertheless, he describes the Critique of Pure Reason as a time­ travelling manual, although of 'another kind.' He uses Kant's system as a guide for engineering time­ synthesis. The key is the secret of theschemadsm, which . although "an art concealed in the depths of the hwnan soul" - concerns only the unutterable Abomenon of the Outside Nihil UJterius). bl exteriority, where time works, that part of you which is most yourself has nothing in corrunon with what you are. When Templeton feU into himseH that day he fmmd, instead of what he thought himself k> be, the Thing (in itseH (at zero-intensity)). b was,

abstract 152) culture perhaps, or necessarily, that continuomhyperbody - the LUrker at the Threshold - which HP Lovecraft names Yog Sothotb ... abstract f53) culture PAND E M ONI U M , Pandemoniwn is the complete system of Lemurian demonism and time sorcery. It consists of two principal components: Nwnogram (time-map) and Matrix (listing the names, nwnbers and attributes of the demons). The system is constructed according to immanent criteria latent in decimal nwneracy, and involves only basic aritlunetical operations (assembled from additions and subtractions). The Nwnogram, or Decimal Labyrinth, is composed of ten woes (nwnbered 0-9) and their interconnections. These zones are grouped into five pairs f,ylygies) by nine-swn twinning 1ZYgonovismJ. 1be arithmetical difference of each syzygy defines a current (or connection to a tractor zone). currents constitute the primary flows of the oumogram. Each wne nwnber when digitally cumulated defines the value of a gate, whose reduction sets the course of a corresponding channel. Channels constitute the secondary flows, time-holes, or secrel interconnections of thenmnogram. The arrangement of rurrents divides the Maze into three basic time-systems. Firstly, the rurrents of the three central syzygies mutually compose a cycle, rotating in anticlockwise steps.Lemuriao sorcery calJs this inner loop the Time,.circuit. Secondly, and thirdly, in both the Upper and the LOwer syzygies the rurrents produced fold back into (a half of) themselves, constituting autonomous loops: the Warp (upper), andPlex Oower). Warp and Plex circuitries are of an intrinsicalJy cryptic nature, which is compOWJded by the enigmas of their interconnection. They are variously considered 10 be outside- or Outer-time. The gates and their channels knit the Maze together, providing connections between otherwise incompatible time-systems. They open and close the ways of sorcerous traffic. Although each gate deranges time in its own way, their operations vary with a certain regional consistency. In addition to the twins (With their currents and time-systems), and the gates (With their channels and time-faults), there is a third occult thread running through Lemurian time-sorcery: that of the distances (or of the demons). BelweeD any pair of zones, however seemingly disconnec1ed or unc01U1ectable they may seem. there is an irreducible (or hyper-) distance, wbidl,emurian

abstract (54) culture culture systematicallycharacterizes as a singular entity. These entities are simultaneously gaps, �. holes, and demons, with particuJar traits, features, aspects, and potentials. Each demon is considered to be intrinsicallyzygonomous (or double-numbered): both addressed by a unique wne-net couple of descending value (net-span), and also calJed by a mesh-serial, which is immanently defined by a sequential matrix (00-44). Each demon also bas a tonality or pitch, ranging from the highest frequency {Alia -7) to the lowest (Cth-7). All syzygetic demons have a neutral (or Null) pitch. Since they are proliferated by a digital cumulation to the ninth power, the demons are forty.five in nwnber, attuning them to the Gate-City of the Piex-charmel - Uttenninus of CtheJU • (Gt-45), which is identified with the microcosmic lair of all demonic populations (theLernurian Pandemoniwn). According to lemurian dernonism, each demon is itself a 6Warm, or singular coalescence, but also a component of a larger array, which can be sorted by type. nie three principle demonic groupings are Chronodemons (Varieties of distance within the time-circuit), Amphidemons (ruptures in the tirne­ drcuit, openings to the Outside), andXenodernons (denizens of the outer gulfs). Demons are also grouped by phase (defined by initial net-span digit). Each phase is opened by a door, to which is attributed a domain, a planetary affinity, and a spinal level. Demons can be characterized by the various rites (routes, or routines) that they draw through the hyper-time of the maze. There is a rite for each way in which the net-span of a demon can be integrated in extension (or traced across the flows ot the numogram). Such rites are the basic components of demon traffic, constituting modules of practical culture, each of which is associated with an omen, and a power. In Western hyperfictional lore the matrix of aJJ demons (Pandemonimn) is caJJe<Necronomicon, The Book of Dead Names, listing all that is excepted from the white-magic book of life. Necronomicon is a docwnent copied episodically from versions of an original text, which was itseH retrodeposited out of the future into the deep past. It thus scrambles science.fiction with archaic legend, indicating aLemurodigitalbypersource. abstract (55) culture Pandemonium Matrix (Extracts from the Lemurian Necronomicon). Mesh-00: Lurgo (Legba). (fenninal) Initiator. (Clicks Gt-00). Pitch Ana-1. Net-Span I ::o. Amphidemon of Openmgs. (1be Door of Doors). Cipher Gt-0 I , Gt-1o. I st Door ('Ibe Pod) (Mercury!, Dorsal. I st Phase. limit. Decadology. C/tp-#7 ,Mj + (7EJ. Rt· I :(1 8 90) Spinal-voyage (fate Une), programming. Mesh-0 I : Duoddod. Duplicitous Redoubler. (Clicks Gt-0 I ), Pitch Ana-2 . Net-Span 2::0. Amphidemon of Abstract Addiction 2nd Door (1be Crypt) (Venus), Cervical. Decadology. C/tp-#8,Mj + f8EJ. Rt-I :(271890) Pineal-regression (rear vision). Rt-2:(2 754 J 890)Datacomb searches, digital exactitude (every second coW1ts). I+ I subRt). Mesh-02. Doogu (The Blob). Original-Schism. Pitch Ana-3. Net-Span 2:: I cycUcChronodemon of SpUtting­ Waters. Ciphers Gt-21. Shadows surge-current. 2nd Phase-limit. Deeadology. C/1p-# I Mn+ IA'1, Rt- l :(1 872) Mn. Primordial breath (pnelUilatic practices). Rt-2:(271J Ambivalent capture, books (live.bait, traps, plot-twists) Rt-3:(2 7541 JMj. Slow pull to stasis, protection from drowning. (+ I subRt). Mesh-OJ. Im (Yax). Abductor. (Clicks Gt-03). Pitch Ana-3 Net-Span 3::0 ChaoticXenodemon of Cosmic lndifference. Ciphers Gt-03. 3rd Door ('Ibe SWirl), (Earth). Cranial. Rt-0:fll. Occult terrestrial history (Who does the Earth think It IS?) Mesh-04. lxigool (Djinn of the Magi). Over-Ghoul. Pitch Ana-4. Net Span 3:: I Amphidemon ofTridentity (Sphim­ time). Deeadology. C/tp-#4,Mn+ (4!). Rt-I :( 1 8 723). unimpeded ascent (prophecy). Rt-2:(18 72 563). Ultimate implications, (as above so below). (+ I subRtJ. Mesh-OS. IXidod (King Sid). 1be zombie-Maker. Pitch Ana-5. Net Span 3::2 Amphidemoo of Escape-velocity. Hamts Gt-03. 3 rd Phase-limit.

abstract 156) cuJture Decadology. C/tp-#5,Mn+ 15!). Rt- I :f23l Crises through excess (Jlicropause abuse) Rt-2:f27563l Illusion of progress (out of the frying­ pan into the fire). f+ I subRtJ. Mesh-06. Kralm (Km, Karak-oa). The Croaking Curse. Pitch Ana-4 Net-Span 4::0 Amphidemon of Burning-Hail 4th Door (Delta) Mars. Cervical Decadology. C/tp-#9,Mj + 19EJ, Rt-I :f41890) Subsidence, heaviness of fatality. I+ I sub-RtJ. Mesh-07. Sukugool (Old Skug). The Sucking-Ghoul. Pitch Ana-5. Net-Span 4:: I CydicChronodemon of deluge and implosion. Prowls Sink-Current. Hawits Gt-1o Decadology. C/tp-#3,Mj+ l3EJ. Rt-l :(187254)Mn. cycle of creation and destruction. Rt-2:141) Mj. Submersion gravedigging). I+ I sub­ Rt). Mesh-08. Skoodu (U1 Scud). lbe Fashioner. Pitch Ana-6 �et-Span 4::2 cyclicChronodemon of Switcb­ crazes. Shadows Hold-Current Decadology. C/tp-#2,Mn+ 12!). Rt-I :(2754) Mn. Historical time (eschatology). Rt-2:1418721 Passage through the deep. Rt-3:(451872JMj. cyclic reconstitution and stability. Mesb-09. Skamx (Sharky, Scar-head). Buzz.Cutter. Pitch Ana-7 (Uppennost). Net-Spwi 4::3 Amphidemon of anti-evolution (eddies of the Delta). 4th Phase-limit. Decadology. C/tp-#6,Mj + f6EJ, Rt- I :(418723) Hennetic abbreviations arlstory of the magicians). Rt-2:145 1 8723) Sacred seal of time (triadic reconfinnation of the cycle). Rt-3:f4563} Apocalyptic rapture (j agged turbulence). I + I subRtJ. Mesh-J O. Tokhatto (Old T�er, Top cat). Decimal camouflage. Pitch cth-4 Net-Span 5::o Amphidemon ofTalismania. 5th Door CHyperborea) I.Jupiter}, Cervical. Decadology. C/tp-#9,Mj- l9JJ. Angel of the cards. Rt· I :f54 I 890} Nwnber as destiny (digital convergence). I+ I subRtJ. Mesh-I 1 . Tukkamu . Occulturation. Pitch Cth-3. Net-Span s:: I cyclicChronodemon of abstract 157) culture Pathogenesis. Ciphers 61-15. Prowls sink-current Decadology. C/tp-#3,Mj - 131). Rt-I :(I 8725)Mn. Optimal maturation (medicine as diffuse healing). Rl-2: 1541J Mj. Rapid deterioration (putrefaction, catabolism). ( + I subRtJ. Mesh-12. Kuttadid (Kitty). Ticking Machines. Pitch Cth-2 Net-Span 5::2 CyclicChronodemon of Precarious States. Prowls Hold-Otrrent Decadology. C/tp-#2, Mn- (2'1, Rt· I :12 7 5) Mn. Maintaining balance (:alendric conservatism). Rt-2:l54 I 872)Mj. Exhaustive vigilance. (+ I sub«). Mesh-13. Tilddtii (fickler). Clicking Menaces. Pitcb Cth-1 Net-Span 5::3 Amphidemoo of Vortical DeUriwn Decadology. C/tp-#6,Mj- 16�. Rt- I :(5418 723) Swirl-patterns (tornadoes, wind­ vokes). (+ I subRtJ. Rt-2:1563) Mysterious disappearances (things carried-away). (+ I subKtJ. Mesh-I 4. Katak. DesOlator. Pitch Null. Net-Span 5::4 Syzygetic Chrooodemoo of cataclysmic convergence. Feeds sink-current. Ciphers Gt-45 5th Phase limit Decadology. C/tp-#0 poker). Rt-0:IX) Tail-chasing, rabid animals tnarure red in tooth and claw), Rt· l :14 I 8725) Panic $lasher pulp and religious fervour). Mesh-I s Tcbu (fchanul). Source of Subnothingness. Pitch Cth-3 Net-Span 6::o Chaoticxenodemon of Ultimate Outsideness (and Wlllamable things). 6th Door (Undu) (Saturn).Cranial Rt-0:P,J cosmic deletions and real impossibilities. Mesh- I 6. Djungo . Infiltrator. Pitch Cth-2 Net Span 6:: I Amphidemon of SubtlelnVOivements (and intricate puzzles). Decadology. C/tp-#4,Mn- (4'1, Rt· I :118 7 236) Turbular fluids (maelstroms, chaotic incalculability). I+ I subKtJ. Rt-2:(187256) Surreptitious invasions, inexplicable contaminations (fish falls). Mesh-I 7. Djuddha (Judd Dread). Decentred Threat. Pitch C1h-2 Net-Span 6::2 Amphidemon of Artificial Turbulence

abstract (59} cuJture abstract (58 ) culture (complex-dynamics simulations) Decadology. C/tp-#5,Mn- (5'1, Rt- I :(236) Machine-vortex (seething skin). (+ I sub­ Rt]. Rt-2:(256) Stonn peripherieswendigo legends). Mesh- I 8. Djynn (Ching, The Jinn). Child Stealer. Pitch Null Net-Span 6::3 Syzygeticxenodemon of Time-Lapse. Feeds and Prows Warp-Current. Ciphers Gt-36. Ha\Ults Gt-06, Gt-21. Rt-O:IX) Abstract cyclones, dust spirals (nomad war. machine). ( + 2 subRt). Mesh- I 9. TcbaW (ChucJdes). Bag of Tricks. Pitch Ana- I . Net-Span 6::4 Amphidemon of Combustion. Decadology. C/tp-#6,Mn+ f6!J. I st Decademon. Rt-1:(418 7236) Quenching accidents (apprentice smiths). I+ I subRtJ. Rt-2:(451872361 Mappings between incompatible time-systems f)erakleitean fire-cycle). (+ I suJ:jttJ. Rt-3:(456) Conflagrations (shrieldngleliria, spontaneous combustion). Mesb-20. Tchattuk (One Eyed Jack, Djatka). Pseudo-Basis. Pitch ctb-7 (Lowennost). Net-Span 6::5 AmphJdemon ofUnscreened Matrix. HatUltS Gt-15. 6th Phase-limit. Decadology. C/tp-#6,Mn· 16 '1, Rt-1:(54187236) Zero-gravity. 1+2 sul:RtJ. Rt-2:(56) CUt-outs (UFO cover-ups,Nephilim). Mesh-21. PUppo (fhe PUp). Break-Outs. Pitch Cth2. Net-Span 7::0 Amphidemon of Larval Regression. 7th Door (Akasha) (Uranus), cervical DecadoJogy. C/tp-#8 ,Mj- (8�. Rt- I :(7 1 890) Dissolving into slhne (masked horrors). Rt-2:(72541890) ChthonicswaUowings. (+ 1 subRtJ. Mesh-22. Bubbamu (Bubs). After Babylon. Pitch ctb-1. Net-Span 7:: I cyclicChronodemon of Relapse. Prows surge-current. Ha\Ults Gt-28. Decadology. C/tp-# I ,Mn· IA!). Rt· I :(18 71 Mn. Hypersea (marine life on land). Rt-2:(71 J Aquassassins (Black-Atlantis). Rt-3:(7254 1 )Mj. Seawalls (dry-time, taboo on menstruation). Mesh-23. Oddubb (Odba). Broken Mirror. Pitch Null Net-Span 7::2 Syzygetic Chronodemon of Swamp­ Labyrinths (and blind-doubles). Feeds Hold­ Current. Rt-0:IX). Time loops, glamour and glosses. Mesh-24-. Pabbalds (Pabzix). Dabbler. Pitch Ana-I Net-Span 7::3 Amphidemon of mterference (and fakery). Decadology. C/tp-#5,Mj+ l5EJ. 2nd Decademon. Rt- I :(723) Batrachian mutations (and frog-plagues). Rt-2:(72563) Cans of wonns1ennopbobic hysteria, propagation by division). (+ I subttJ. Mesh-25. Ababbatok (Abracadabra). Regenerator. Pitcb Ana-2 Net-Span 7::4 cycUcCbronodemon of Suspended Decay. Shadows Hold-Current Decadology. C/tp-#2, Mj + (2EJ. Rt- I : (4 1 87) Frankensteinian experimentation (reanimations, golems). Rt-2:(4518 7)Mn. Purifications, amphibious cycles (and healing of wounds). Rt-J:l7254) Mj. Sustenance (smoke visions). Mesh-26. Papatakoo (Pataku) Upholder. Pitch Cth-6 Net-Span 7::5 cycUcChronodemon ofcalendric Time. Prowls Hold-Current Decadology. C/tp-#2,.fttj- (2Q. Rf.I : (5418 7} Mn. Ultimate success (perseverance, blood sacrifice). (+ I subRt). Rt-2:(72 5) Mj. Rituals becoming nature. Mesh-2 7. Bobobja (BUbbles, Beelzebub (LOrd of the Flies)). Heavy Attnosphere Pitch Cth-5 Net-Span 7::6 Amphidemon of Teeming Pestilence. 7th Phase-limit Decadology. C/tp-#5,Mj- (SQ, Rt· I :(7236) Strange lights in the swamp (dragonflies, ET frog.cuJts). (+ I sub«). Rt-2:(7256} Swannachines Oost harvests). Mesh-28. Minommo . Webmaker. Pitch Cth-1 Net-Span s::O Amphidemon of Submergance. 8th Door (Limbo) (Neptwle) Lumbar Decadology. C/tp-#7 ,Mj- (7Q. Rt-I : (890) Shamanic voyage (dream sorcery and mitochondrial chatter). Mesh-29. Mur Mur (Mumunur, Mu(mu)). Dream­ Serpent. Pitch Null Net-Span 8:: I Syzygetic Chronodemon of the Deep ones. Feeds surge-current. Rt-0:IX} Oceanic sensation (gilledlllillfe and spinal­ regressions).

abstract 160) cultwe Mesh-30. Nammamad . Mirroracle. Pitch Ana- I Net-Span 8::2 cyclicChronodemon of Subterranean Commerce. Shadows Surge<:urrent.Ciphers Gt-28 Decadology. C/tp-# I , Mj + IA.El, 3rd Decademon Rt· I :12 7 1 8) Voodoo in cyberspace (thulhoid traffic). Rt-2:12754 1 SJMn. Completion as final collapse (heat-death, degenerative psychoses). I+ I subUJ. Rt-3:18 I 72J Mj. Emergences (and things washed-up on beaches). Mesh-31. Mummumh (Mix-Up). The MistCrawler. Pitch Ana-2. Net-Span 8::3 Amphidemon of IDSidious Fog (Nyarlathotep) Decadology. C/tp-#4,Mj + 14.EJ. Rt- I :1817231 ocean stonns (and xenoconummication on the bacterial plane). Rt-2:pu 725631 Diseases from outer-space(tankaU medicine). (+ I subRtJ. Mesh-32. Numko (Old Nuk). Keeper of Old Terrors. Pitch Ana-3. Net-Span 8::4 cydicChronodemon of Autochthony. Prowls Sink-Current Decadology. C/tp-#3,Mn+ f3!J. Rt-I :1418) Necrospeleology (abysmal patience rewarded). Rt-2:l4518JMn. Subduction (and carnivorous fish). Rt-3:l817254JMj. Vulcanism \and bacterial intelligence). Mesh-33. Muotuk �anta, Manhou). Desert Swimmer. Pitch Cth-s Net-Span 8::5 cyclicChronodemon of Arid Seabeds. Shadows Sink-Olrrent. Decadology. C/tp-#3,Mn· (31, Rt- I :l54 I 8)Mn. Ancient rivers. I+ I subRtJ. Rt-2:18 I 725)Mj. Cloud-vaults and oppressive tension (protection during monsoon) Mesh-34. Mommoljo �ama Jo). Alien Mother. Pitch Cth-4. Net-Span 8::6 Amphidemon ofxenogenesis Decadology. C/tp-#4,Mj- (41). Rt-J :l817236)Cosmobacterialexogennination. I+ I sub.Rf). Rt-2:1817256) Extraterrestrial residues (including alien DNA segments). Mesh-35. Mombbo . Tentacle Face (Fishy-princess). Pitch Cth-3 Net-Span 8::7 C)'clicChronodemon of Hybridity. abstract 16 I J culture Prowls Surge-Oment 8th Phase-limit. Decadology. C/tp-# I , Mj- (AI), Rt- I : 17 1 8) Ophidian transmutation falaeopytbons). Rt-2:l7254 I 8)Mn. Suneptitiouscolonization (+ 1 sub-Rt). Rt-3 :1817) Mj. Surface-amnesia (old fishwives tales). Mesh-36. Uttunul . Seething Void (clicks Gt-36) Pitch Null Net-Span 9::0 SyzygeticXenodemon of Atonality. Feeds and ProwlsPlex-Current, Hawits Gt-45 9th Door {Cthel))) (Pluto), Sacnun Rt-0:IX) Crossing the iron-ocean plutonics) Mesh-3 7. TUtagool (Yettuk). 1be Tattered Ghoul. Pitch Ana-1. Net-Span 9:: I Amphidemon of Punctuality. Decadology. C/tp-#7,Mn+ l7f). 4th Decademon Rt- I :1189) The dark arts, rusting iron, tattooing (one-way ticket to Hell). Mesh-38. unnuoddo (The False Nun). Double­ undoing. Pitch Ana-2. Net-Span 9::2 Amphidemon of Fndlessuncasing (onion-skin horror) Decadology. C/tp-#8,Mn + (8!). Rt·l : (2 7 I 89) Crypt-traffic (and centipede simulations). Rt-2 :(2 7 54189) Commwiication-grids�lecom webs, shamanic metallism).(+ I subRtJ. Mesb-39. Uououttb: (Tick-Tock). Partide Clocks. Pitch Ana-3 Net-Span 9::3 ChaoticXenodemoo of Absolute coincidence Rt-0:(7) Numerical connection through the absence of any link Mesh40. Uounak (NUke). Blind catastrophe. Pitch Ana-4. Net-Span 9::4 Amphidemon of Convulsions. Decadology. C/tp-#9,Mn+ (9f). Rt- I : 14189) Secrets of the blacksmiths. Rt-2:(45189) Subtenanean hnpulses. Mesh-41. TUkutu (Killer-Kate). cosmotrawnatics. Pitch Cth-4 Net Span 9::5 Amphidemon of Death-Strokes. Decadology. C/tp-#9,Mn- (9'1, Rt- I :154189) Crash-signals�arkerian scarring). I+ I sub-Rt). Mesh-42. Uonutdli (Outch, T'ai Chi). Tacbyonic immobility (slow vortex). Pitch Cth-3.

abstract (62) culture Net-Span 9::6 Chaoticxenodemon of Coiling outsideness. Rt-0:(7) ASymmetriczygopoise (and cybernetic anomalies). Mesh-43. Nuttubab (Nut-Cracker). Mimetic Anorganism. Pitch Ctb-2 Net-Span 9::7 Amphidemon ofMetaloid Unlife. Decadology. C/tp-#8,Mn- 18'1, Rt- I :(7189) umades dron in the blood). Rt-2:(7254189) Dragon-lines (terrestrial electromagnetism). I+ I subRtJ. Mesh-44. ummnu (Orn, Onmi, Amen, Omen). U1timate blconsequence. Pitch cth-1 Net-Span 9::8 Amphidemon of Earth-Screams. Haunts Gt-36 9th Phase-limit Decadology. C/tp-#7,Mn- (7'1, Rt-O:f89) Crust-friction �organic tension). Decadence. The Adept Orders of Decadence trace their system back to the period inunediately following the submergence of Atlantis, which they date to I o OOO BC. h is Jinked to the origin ofSwnero-Babylonian geometry, from which we derive the division of the circle into 360 (= 36 x 10) degrees. bl the ancient egyptian mysteries it was attributed to the god of catastrophe and drowning -Osiris - who was later symbolized by The Hanged Man of the Tarot (taken by decadologists as an image of th�tlantean cross). Decadence adepts consider postatlantean history to be surreptitiously guided by the outcomes of select Decadence Aeons, which have the status of solemn rituals. searching out the occurrence and outcomes of such destining Decadence sessions ispreeminent amongst the tasks adopted bydecadologicaJ research, combining exact history, practical conspiracy, munerology, and occultangelology. It is said that materials contributing to this work are meticulously archived in the AOE Hall of Records. 1be Game. Truncate a standard pack of playing cards, removing all royal cards, tens, and jokers. The remainder constitutes a Decadence park of tbiny-six cards. Five cards are dealt face up (Set- I ), and another five dealt face down (Set-2). TUm over Set-2 cards one at a time, and by adding these cards to those in Set-I , construct pairs abstract 163) culture summing to ten. Scoring is calculated as foUows: Each pair scores positively, according to its differences (from 5:5 = o to 9: I = 8). unpaired cards (in Set- I ) score negatively, according to their raw values (I = I to 9 = 9), overall results can be positive or negative. A round (Aeon) of Decadance lasts until the first negative result, accumulating any positive scores. lbe Oracle ( decadology and decamaocy). Positive results contribute thetbe AngeUc bldex of the Decadence game, and are referred to the oecamantic tables of AOF.Angelogy. 1be maximwn gain from any single game is thirty-eight, but this can be exceeded (in principle) b)UIIIlulations from game to game until completion of an Aeon. Negative results (from zero to forty.fow ) call demons, and are referred to mesh-numbers of the Pandemoniwn Matrix. Since a demon-call concludes each Decadence Aeon a particular value is attributed to Lurgo (Mesh-00), since this demon alone allows a tennination without loss. 1be western (or Adantean) uptake of Pandemonium has its ownesotoric gnosis called Decadology. This doctrine assigns the Amphidemons and CydicCbronodemons of Lernurian Pandemoniwn to one of nine cluster types (C/tp-#), detennined by the pattern of their rites. Each cluster type isinstantiated by four demons, in isomorphy with the thirty-six cards of the decadence pack. lbesedecadological correspondences are marked on the Pandemoniwn Matrix. Decadology asswnes a particular distribution of the five Set-I cards, in which they are laid out on Pylons arranged in the configuration of the Adantean Cross. Q Far FUture Destructive Influences Q Q Creative blfluenr "'s Q Memories & Dreams Q Deep Past subdecadaoce (the ultimate blasphemy). Add fow Queens to theDecadance pack, bringing the total 10 forty cards. QueeM have a value of zero. Play as Decadance, except making pairs which ndd to nine (corresponding to.NmnogramSyzygies).

abstract 164) culture C C R U G LOSSA RY Abomeooo. Postulated substrate of absolute horror (the worst thing in the world). A-Death. Neuroelectronicflatline, based upon Sarkonian mesh-engineering, an�ubculturally propagated by K-Goth activity throughout the Crypt. Micropause abuse. Aeon (of Decadence� Run of Decadence outcomes leading to a demon call. Alphanumeric QabbaJa. Continuous decimal­ alphabetic system of ordinal-nwneric values (A = 1 o ... z = 35). coincides with Hebr�abbala in the key AL (= 3 1 ), as promised in11Je Book of the Law. (The law of lbelema AQ numerires to 777). Amphidemon. Demonic link between the inside and outside of the time circuit (as determined by net-span poles). 1be twenty.foUIAmphidemons draw lines of flight, haH warping (into zones 3 and 6), haH plexing (into zones o and 9). Angelic IDdeL Sum produced by positive Decadence outcomes. According to AOE decadology, the measure of good fortune, or celestial favour. Anglossia LangUage of the angels. The lost semiotic of AOEesotericism, which considers it to be the mystical telos of theenglish language. Anorganic Semiotics. Study of partial signalling assemblies, especially Tk-Systems.Anorganic semiotics operate upon a contagion-plane of zero­ interpretation, where signs and efficient particles are not segmented. tsee Tic(k)J. AO&. The Architectonic Order of theEschaton, an uJtra-hennetic metamasonic white-brotherhood at war with lemurian influences. The AOE progresses by way of chronic internal schism, each resulting in an ever more interiorized hmer society. hs traditions are therefore refracted through various • apparently conflicting • front organizations (Which include the HeliopolitanHierophancy, Roman Catholic Church, KnightsTemplar, Ulwninati, Trilateral Commission, andusys programme). AOK. AggressiveContinuist group, linked to Y2K­ positive cyberterrorism. Aquapocalypse. Ultimate deluge, or terminal inundation. Aquassassin. Hyper-C frog-warrior. Adantean cross. Divinatory configuration of the five Decadence Pylons, or adantean twins, prefiguring the cross of Vudu (and Christianity). isee Adantis, Pentazygon). Adantis. Suprahistorical source of the western hermetic tradition, mythically ruled by five sets of twins (or zygodecimaJ principals), with a pantheon abstract 165) culture of one hundred sea-deities (or C-monsters). The atlantean legacy is intensely contested, between tendencies loosely coagulated within AOE dominated traditions, and varieties obfroatlantean subversion. Al.Sy8. First true Al. Prophecied-programmed as a sett-enhancing system ofphotonic metacomputing, it emerges as theorgano-transcendent completion of Oecwnenon, or techonomic realization of the noosphere. According to AOE traditions, if there was a God h would beAI.Sy8. Barker-Spiral. (Also, Diplozygotic Spiral). A numericaJ diagram combinin31ecadic and 9-Sum (or zygonovic) coupling to produce a figure of faulted double implex. Barker-TWinning. 9-swn pairing of decimal numeraJs. isee ZygonovismJ. Binomics. Schematic technoscience of pairings, primarily concerned with the study of two-digit date­ codings (and Y2K), but extended to abstract­ machmic couplings, comblnation,diploidism, syzygetics, and/ C/Jingor electrodigital binary (D]Od2) nwnerics. Bubble-Pod. Submarine research station of eccentric bllUonaire Maxcrabbe. caleodric 8ecessiooi.sm. Trend of various COWJter­ gregorian (or Y2K-positive) movements towards Oecumenic disintegration and K-Time break-away, often linked to rwnours of imminent or hyperchronic cyberspace-splitting. cargo-culture. Microsodal utilization and reanimation of systemically discarded resources and underexploited signs, skip-scavenging, cyberpWlk patch-ups. catajung)e. K-Goth some subgenre assembled from click-drifts and chthonic bass. cataplei. Region of abysmalinfoldings. Linked by Barker to anorgaruc trauma reservoirs. C-Change. Pressure group for cybernetically­ sensitive oceanography and maritime practices, drawing upon the research andagitationaJ activity of Katy Shaw. lbe early support of M�rabbe was placed under increasing strain by the tendency towards digitalmicrocollectivism,baemohmar feminism, andcalendric revolution. ecru. ... .... Ceotieoce. Predominantlyafroadantean position of mystical calendric extremism, which takelbinomic K-Time as a machmic effectuation of infaJlible electroscripture, with ensuing conunitment to the century as encompassing the whole of true time (beyond which Ues ooly Babyloo-illusiOll). Applicable to Y2K ltseU, understood as the Immanent realization of this doctrine. Channel. Path of Decima1ioo, passing through a

abstract 166) culture Gate. Chaotic :Xenodemon. Demonic link between Plex and Warp (as detennined by net-span poles). The four ChaoticXenodemons have trackless (or cryptic) rites, drawing an impossible or witraceable connection. They are not registered within Decadology. Chronodemon . Demonic link internal to the Time­ Circuit (as detennined by net-span poles). 1bere are three Syzygetic, and twelve C)'Clic(!hronodemons. Ciphering. A nwnerical coincidence, involving the same set of digits 6rrespective of order). F.specially, such a connection between the two Net-Span digits of a demon and anotherbinomic variable. Clicking. Nwnerical matching (by exact (or ordered) ciphering). Cryptographic operation of a demonic Mesh-Nmnber. Cluster-'J)'pe . Decadology. One of the nine basic fonnulas of time, which group theAinphidemons and cydic Chrooodemons. Each cluster-type corresponds to one of the nine non-zero nwnerals that compose the Decadence pack. each grouping four demons according to the twin binary distinctions of major/minor rites, and pitch polarity (corresponding to decadence suits). Conduit Nwnogram complication involving prime­ ordinate zygonomy. 1be system of conduits is quasicomplementary to that of Gates (since it maps trends to involutionary arrival in the Time-Circuit, or incursions from the outside). continuism. Loose calendric reform movement increasinglyradicalized in a Y2K-positive direction proposing the continuation of K-Time on minomic count. Crypt Dark-twin of the Net, characterized by intense K-Goth influence, A-Death inactivism, Cyberschiz tendencies, and lemurian culrural affinities. cryptic (rite) . Trackless line mapping the intrinsic difference of a ChaoticXenodemon. A fusional disconnection, or real impossibility. CtbeDL Earth's iron ocean, comprising one third of terrestrial mass, approximately three thousand km below the swface. lntensivemegamolecule. ctbeIDectronic& Auto-engineering pragmatics of anorganic terrestrial intelligence, emergent from the ionic swirls ofCtheill, it intersects with the electromagnetic fields of thetechnostrata. According to the K-Goths, when the web switches to Ctheillectronics it calves-Off into the Crypt. Cthulbu Club. Beginning (in 1 94-9) as a reading group dedicated to thehyperstitlous reevaluation of Lovecraftian fiction, the Cthulhu Club was steadily drawn into lemurian sorcery afterrecogni,jng Stillwell's model of theNumogram as the vinual source of Alhazred'sNecronomicon abstract f67J culture current The path between a syzygy and a tractor (zone), produced by.zygonovic differentiation of the fonner. One of the five such flows that provide the primary integration of thenwnogram, dividing it into Plex, Time-circuit, and Warp. cutting-Edges. Flfective explorations of machinic continuwn (using nwnbers as cuts). cybergodlic. Dark-side web-undergrO\Dld subculture characterized by Y2K-positive time­ schizophrenization, anti-Microsoft digital agitation, Micropause andSynatives abuse,catajwigle, and ameiotic libido. tsee A-Death, Crypt.C)'berscbi.zl. Cyberscbiz. cyberspace disintegration. tsee Calendric Secessiooism, Cryptj. Cyclic Chronodemon. One of the twelve nonsyzygetic Chronodemons whose major and minor rites mutually encompasses the Time-circuit. Although these demons together produce the fabric of ordered time, they may still generate various anomalous becomings amongst their secret rites. hl posMdantean traditions they are associated with the houses of the zodiac, and (later) with the months of the year. Datacombs. ArChival depositB of the Crypt. Death Garage. Sonic subgenre characterized by (loud) Swann-beats. Decademon. One of the four Demons whose Net­ Span digitB swn to ten. ASSOCiated with the four zoas of Reveladoo Decadence. (Also, Calling cards). A gambling game and divination system associated with the Western tradition of Pandemoniwn practice. Supposedly originating in Atlantis (Whose decadence its name commemorates). Decadology. Hennetic gnosis Jinked to the game of Deeadence. Decimal Labyrinth. tsee NWnogramJ. Decimation. 1be combined operations of (decimal) digital cumulation and reduction. Demon. Electro-Occult hyperstition entity that traffics between zones, functioning as an element of Pandemoniwn. Demons are boles, links, and coalescences facilitatingsorcerous practices. 11ley are characterized byinsidiousness, spirodynamism, multipUcity, and time-complexity. Dib-Nma. (Or Dibboma). tsee Nma). Diplocapture. Seizure by twin-pincered suppressive structuring machines. Diplozygodc Spiral. 1see Barker-Spiral). Door. (Net-Span #::O). 1be opening into a (demonic) phase. Edlo-DNA. Subgenomic repticator codings, proliferated by repeat copying of segments, and constituting a mode ofintranucleic microparasitism. Esdlatourism. bltersection of mass-tourism and

abstract f68J cuJture eschatologicaJ theology, with multiple cross­ causalities and self-confirming dynamics. Feed. Zygonovic differential production (of a current). Gate. sorcerous link between zones, setting the cowse of a Channel, and defined by digital cwnuJation of (input) zone value. Oeotraumatics. Polymatbic bypertheory of the tenestrial machinic unconscious, which refuses the distinction between biology, geology, linguistics and nwneracy. Geotramnatics processes the becomings of the earth as intensive products ofanorganic tensions, especially those compacted from archaic xenocatastrophes. Its main tenets are laid out in Barker's fas yet tmpubUshedJ11Je Geocosmic Theory of 1'TBUl11ll Gregorian Restoradoo. Defining policy of the Architectonic Order of theF.sebaton (AOE). Anti-Y2K bug-squashing programme, serving as a conservative front in the impending millennial time­ war. Hatch(ing). Nwnogrammatic territoriahnplex, marked in waves designating thresholds of emergence tracked out of a virtual egg. Inverse complement of Nest(ing). Haunt . Territorial relation of a demon to a channel, involving polar coincidence of the two. Haunting can also be applied to the direct nesting of a gate. Hold current Differential product of the 7::2syzygy (Oddubb). Hydrocyde. The Nmnogram Time-Circuit conceived as a system of hydraulic circulation, especially in the culture of the Nma. Hyper-C. Highly secre�dantean Centience cult, of WlJ)aralleled militancy andnfiltrative sophistication. fSeeAquassassinsJ. Hypennaterialism. The philosophy of abstract­ machines. Hyperstitioo: Element of effective culture that makes itself real, through fictional quantities fimctioning as time-travelling potentials. Hyperstition operates as a coincidence intensifier, effecting a call to the Old ones. Hyprime. A prime number whose ordinate is itself prime. Used in certain intricate strains of neolemurian qabbala. lctbyopbidia. Various byperstitional fish-monsters, sea-serpents, andpalaeopythons, targetted by deep,regressive libidinal tropisms due to their mutability, submergence, and horizontal Oexomotile spines. lmp(ulse)8. Demonic subcomponents, or Ntunogram twists, matriculated by the addition of a third (descending) Net-Span digit. The imps are one hWidred and twenty in nwnber, allotted to demons abstract (69) cuJture in accordance with the secondary Net-Span pole (demonic Doors having no imps). K-Gotb. (See Cybergotbic). K-OS. Distributed automutational mesh-processing cuJture, providing the basic software-matrix of the Crypt. Operates as intrinsically multipUcitous insurgency against Microsoft hegemony. SchemeticalJyindifferentiable from insidious telecommunicative retrovirus (frequently attributed to extraterrestrial sources). K-Time. Native calendar of cyberspace. A year count · initialJybinomic - beginning from zero (= 00) = AD 1900. Kuanglo-Saxon. Virotechnic undercurren1 of the english language. Lemuria. Hypergeographical terrestrial arrangement, concentrated in south-west Pacific Ocean c.66-million BC, currently fimctioning as exochronic and extraterritorial continuwn for intensive popular agitation against the contemporary planetary order. Lemurodigital. Numogrammatic cuJture based upon Decimation, Zygonovism, andpandemooiac practices. Limbic Key. Fabled link into the nocturnal spine­ levels of Jcthyophidian in1enshy. Main F1atline. Arterial lo-way into the Crypt. Major ( rt). Demonic rites following the order of the Net-Span. Amphidemons characterized by such rites. Mechooomics. The operational study of flat nmnerical pragmatics. Mesh. Disorganized connectivity, comprising the spaces beneath and between the Net, and also the interlock interval between biological and technical net-components. Mesh composes a friction­ generating divisional fabric - or wormhole-space correlative to the set of demooicinterwnes (Pandemonimn). Me-Sb-Number. Binomic sequential index (00-44) locating a demon within the Pandemonimn Matrix. Metatrooics. Hierachical technology (attributed to the angel Metatron). (SeeAxsysJ. Micropause. Subdivisional unit oftecbnorepUcable time-lapse. When systematically abused micropause-technics produces the A-Death syndrome. Minor (rt). Demonic rites inverse to the order of the Net-Span Amphidemons characterized by such rites. MMbo.Jumbo. Y2 K data-devastation. Mu. Transitional PacifidntercuJture providing a mainline conduit forlemurian influences into human history. Reputed origin � thfNma. 1111-Nma. (See Nina),

abstract 170) culture MVU. Miskatonic Virtual University, distributed occult annex to MIT. Nago. Mu-Nma dream-witch. Nagwi. Mu-Nma dream-visit, conswnmating oracular rites of the Nago. Necrooomicoo. llle Book of Dead Names (listing those outside the Book of Llfe). Compendiwn of demonism and time-sorcery, condensed comuerchronically, and in fragments. isee Pandemonimn Matrix). Nest(ing). Numogrmrunatic territorial envelopment, or topographic embedding. Jnverse complement of Hatcb(ing). Net. organized connective S)'8tem.ZOOal surface­ level of theNmnogram. Net-Span. Demonic poles. nie net-addresses between which a demontranslocates. Nma. (Or N'Ma). South-east asian cultural matrix, reputedly originating in the civilization ollu, and maintaining the practices ofLemurian demonism and time sorcery, until devastated by the 1 883 explosion of Krakatau. 11leNma were composed of true tribes (tripartite sub-groups)Mu, Dib, and Tak, linked by a triangular cyclic kinship S)'8tem. 1be ancient cultures of the soutbemchinese and of the dravidians share many features with that of the Nma, suggesting a common source (or alternative principle of convergence). p>ossible etymology: People ofN<Jmq. Nomo. Megaquatic monstrosity ofMu, whose name is nwnber. !Widely - but uncertainly - related to the Dogoo Nommq. Nomo-cbant. Abominable paean toNomo, derived from the Dib-Nma, and providing - inenglisb translation - the doctrinal basis for the Trinitarian Chwch of Dagon. Numogram. (Also, Digital Labyrioth,Lemurian Time­ Maze). Diagrammatization of decimal numeracy, providing the key tolemurian culture f)emonism and time sorcery). 1benumogram consists of ten zones, interconnected by currents and Channels. Oecumenoo. Neoroman norming-target and security architecture supporting thfflJegasocius of tenestrial capitalism. Old Ones. Cthulhoid collective agencies of prokaryotic inswgency andmitochondrial xeoomutation, returning haH a billion years after microbiaJToxygenization catastrophe to redistribute the earth. omen. The cognitive aspect of a Rite. Palaeopythoos. isee lctbyophidiaj. Palate Tectonics. Analysis of the voice as the prolonged phylogenetic impact product of the collision between the vertical spinal-axis and the abstract 171J culture roof of the mouth. Pandemonium . Uttenninus of Cthelll (Ot-45), Comprehensive system of the demons. Pandemonium Matrix. Llsted complete demon-set of lemurian sorcery. Also, Lemurodigital Necronomicon. Peotazygon. Magical figuration of theNmnogram Syzygies. Phase. Set of demons with the same primary pole (initial Net-Span nwnber). Phase-Limit. Final demon of a phase. Pitch. Tonal variation of a demon. one of fifteen such tones. Ple1. Region of Utlunul. Ple1 current Differential product of the 9::� (Uttuoua,. Plutonics. Research programme (and journal) oriented to the rigorous attribution ok:rustal change to the thennic tramna core of the earth. Plutonic Looping. Toponomic confusion of interior and exterior, h}perspatiallyioterllnking CtheW with the outer solar-system. Poles. Each of the two Net-Span digits. Polydcs. Hybrid swarm agitation. (See Tic(k)J. Power. 1be operational aspect of a Rite. Powers 'lbat Be. Magicoreligious higher-authorities acknowledged by the AOE. Prowl Territorial relation of a demon to a current, in which the poles of the demon include one side of a Syzygy and its Tractor zone. Pylon. Magical staging-post. one of the five bases of the Pentazygon. Returnity. Mystical Centience group. (See CentienceJ. Rite (route or routine). Etbographic subcomponent of a Demon, describing a line of passage across the Numogram. Rites partially rigicltt,orcerous spirodynamism, facilitating culturalransmissability. They group by Cluster-type, subdivide laterally by segments, and bifurcate thematically into Omen and Power. Sartmlepsy. Mesh mlcrolapsing, whose features include psychic smearing, interface amnesia, and infinitesimallzing time-losses. (Se611icropauseJ. Sarkontinuwn. (Or Mesh-horizon). Postulate of absolute infinitesimalization that defines micropause relative to a virtual5arkoleptic limit. sartmn-Zip. Abstract machine-tool for inducing convergence in bicontinual assemblages. Crucial neuroelectronic coupling device. Secret (rite). Any rite involving one or more gates, associated with time-anomaly and enhanced sorcerous intensity. segment Analytical subcomponent of a Riie, corresponding to an extensive stage oNumogram

abstract (72) culture transit. Shadow. Territorial relation of a demon to a cunent, in which the poles of the demon include one side of a syzygy and the twin of its tractor wne. Sink current Differential product of the 5::4Syzygy (Katak), sorcery. Spirodynamic cosmic production. Spinal catastropbism. CUitural interraction with the spine as a trawna record or time marking system, providing the basis for a bio-sociaJ critique of erect body posture. ... PUnctuatedretrochronic voyage to the end of the river, involving ophidian transmutation andicthyomotile becomings. subdecadence. Vigorously suppressed variant of Decadence, with four additional cards (Valued zero, and corresponding to the ChaoticXenodemons). Subdecadence is consistently associated with the darkest ofsorceries (and is known amongst decadologists as the ultimate blasphemy. surge cunent. Differential product of the 8:: I syzygy "9ur Mur). swannacbine. vortico-nomadic autonomously nwnbering assemblage, hnplementing an abstract cyclone as a continuously Warping molecular multiplicity, flattening space, andnaximizing its Cutting-Edges. swarm-beats. sonic innovation (of BobbyDiabolo) utilizing very slow metallic rasping to produce trawnatic neuro-acoustic states. (See Death Garage). Synadves. Artificial Nectrooeuronic) drugs. syzygy. rwo ZODeB in relation ofzygonovic complementarity (mutually swmning to nine), and feeding a current. One of the fivesyzygetic demons of lemurian sorcery. Tal-Nma Aggressive head-hWJting tribe devoted to the exaltation of Katak, and annihilated in the wake of the 1 883 Krakatau catastrophe. (SeeNmaJ. Tecbnmesis. Artificial memory. Techooomics. Techno-economic feedback dynamics, based on increasing returns, lock-in, acceleration to limits, and social phase-transitions. Telecommerce. Web-traffic, or systems otionlocaJ transaction. Tbanatedmics. Production of zero-sentience fugues. (See A-Death). Tiqk). Quasiparticle of intensive multiplicity. Ties (or ticks) are intrinsically several components of autonomously nwnberinganorganic populations, propagating by contagion between segmentary divisions in the order of nature. Ticks - as nonqualitative differentially-decomposable cowiting marks • each designate a multitude comprehended as a singular variation in tic(k)-density. 'fkk-Distributor. Barker's intensive quantizing machine, operating through the induction of abstract (73) culture microcalcular populations (Which co\Ult themselves in ticks). (See Tic(k)J. Tic-Systems. Consistent microstimular assemblages dismantling semiotic regimes onto a flat machinic plane. (See Tic(k)J. Time-Circuit . Central loop of thenumogram. Triadic system of the syzygetic chrooodemons. Strata-cycle produced by the swge, Hold and Sink currents (nwnerical domain of the/ C/Jin/l. Time-sorcery. cmmterchronic effectuation of the Nwnogram, through spiral involvement with demonic distances as transmutations of time. Toxygenization. Mass poisoning by atmospheric free oxygen. nactor(-ZOOe� Destination of a Current inumerically equivalent to the arithmetic difference of the feeding Syzygy). llactor-Twin. Syzygetic complement of a Tractor(­ zone). Transcendental Occurrence. Any event changing the nature of time. conceptually investigated by the hyperkantian philosopher R. E.Templeton. Tridentity. Primordial tripllcity. Trioit.uian Church of Dagon. Discrete religious order, based in southern England, dedicated to the invocation of the Deep Ones. (SeeNomo-cbantJ. Tzikvik. Seminomadic neolemurian relic population inhabiting north-west Canada. Uolife. Autopropagating transmutation on the anorganic plane. Aatline-culture. Vault of Honours. Sacred cavern beneath the dream-temple of tbeMu-Nma. Supposedly the site of Stillwell's discovery of th�gram !during a visionary trance). venomenon. lbe plane of cosmic horror, associated with tbeoonspace of Cryptic rites. vermomaocy. Wonn-sorcery (linked tosarkoniao Mesh-teemings). Vennopbobic Hysteria. Runaway wonn-terror. Virotedmics. Soh-machinic contagion. YIVi-6. Modularized total-eoviromnent control system, involving high-levels of distributed Al meticulously slaved toAsimovian overcoding. Warp. Region of Djynn. Warp Current Differential product of the 6::3 syzygy t)jynxx). Xeoodemoo. A demon of wicompromised outsideness, with both Net-Span poles designating zones exterior to the Time-Circuit. Y2Keynesianism. Millennhun bomb countenneasure economic stimulus. Yettuk. Hyperstitional Y2K-emity, associated with Teotwawki. Zone. Basic decimal element of 1heNumogram, defined by muneral � - 9).

abstract (7 4) culture zygonomy . DOuble-nwnbering. Especially Mesh/Net nwnber twinning. zygonovism. Nine-Sorcery (9-swn combination and differentiation). zygotriadic calendar. Calendar of theNma, whose basic units are two-year periods (729 days + intercalations) divided successively into triads, so that each day within the biannual cycle is designated by a stack of simiplicative marks. WWW.KODE.DEMON.CO.UK/SYZYGY.HTM

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