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From Subversion to Submersion
Galactic Bureau of Investigations report to the Galactic Federation on new sonic
insurgencies.
As we approach the Millennium, the Bureau has noted a marked increase in the activities
of the enigmatic group known as Hyper-C. Agents will be aware that Hyper-C is a
clandestine distributed network, dedicated to "aquatic return" and the "liquidation of
Babylon". Hyper-C is associated in particular with "sonic intelligence weaponry", and has
taken credit for many recent examples of info-terrorism, which have been conventionally
but erroneously labeled as musical recordings.
Question: Who or what is behind the transmissions? Is Hyper-C merely the name for a
set of unco-ordinated but related practices? Do Hyper-C activities amount to anything
more than the replication of the name Hyper-C?
As with most threats the Federation currently faces, Hyper-C has abandoned all
traditional political methods and goals; it has seceded utterly from the representational
and signifying regimes of the Dominant Operating System. Operatives should be warned
that Hyper-C propagates virally. It would be extremely foolish - and dangerous - to think
of this as a metaphor. Even the use of the term Hyper-C in this report is a spreading of
the virus.
Warning: Agents must be aware that contact with Hyper-C tends to dissolve all
conventional sense of reality.The chief danger to Galactic Federation operatives may be
that agents begin to question the reality of their mission; in many cases, operatives
have been fooled into doubting the existence of the Federation. A particularly nasty
Hyper-C tactic involves treating the Federation as Science Fiction. As one reputed HyperC signal puts it.
Everything you see, everything you hear; it might be a mirage.
A complementary diversionary tactic involves denying the existence of Hyper-C itself. Do
not be fooled: rumours and disinformation are indispensable weapons in ultramodern
cybernetic conflicts. Denying its own existence is one of the ways Hyper-C spreads.
In order to prepare agents for operating in the field, it is necessary to describe some of
the principal characteristics of Hyper-C activities. These have been grouped under
headings which have been taken from Hyper-C communiques. On no account should
operatives repeat these slogans; they must be treated as highly contagious material.
1. From subversion to submersion.
Agents should not assume that the absence of explicitly seditious signifying material
from Hyper-C transmissions indicates that they are devoid of content or without effect.
On the contrary: the fact that these transmissions in no way resemble excepted modes
of political address is indicative of their extreme virulence. The "disassembly of music
into sonic machineries" has gone alongside the dissolution of politics into tactics. The
aspirational and representational logics of "protest music" have given way to a technics
of direct action, in which sound is used as a "neuronic trigger." Once again, agents
should not imagine that there is anything metaphorical about this. Hyper C sonic
weaponry is stealthy but highly effective; it attacks the organism very directly, opening
up defensive membranes to an immersive "acoustic space." The abstraction of sound
made possible by new technologies enables a hitherto unimaginable distribution of "the
secret coded rhythm patterns" Hyper-C is dedicated to spreading. Operatives should
take special care with sonic strains labelled Wave-2 Detroit techno, catajungle, 2-step,
death garage, sinofuturism.
2. We will never surface, or the sonic minorities take to the shadows.
Hyper-C is said to model itself on the hunted animal, not the hunter. Hyper-C
accordingly make no attempt to infiltrate or occupy the mediascape, since, as a previous
GBI report has noted, Hyper-C now has "global strike capacity via Programmer digital
communication systems." Instead of deploying these digital communication systems to
push a political program, Hyper-C is constantly disappearing into a web of pirate
communications and illicit marketization, using the so-called Outernet to effectuate a
"virtual deletion of the social."
3. Set your clocks to maritime.
Hyper-C treats conventional chronology as "fake time." It has developed a sophisticated
counter-chronic program, involving an anti-Gregorian Y2K positive occupation of the socalled computer calendar, an engineered reversal of mammalian evolution, and a
mystico-materialist critique of sequential causality.
4. Negative Evolution.
The attempt to escape "fake time" seems to take the form of "spinal regression" the
projected dispersal of mammalian organismic integrity via a return down the
evolutionary ladder. As a previous GBI report warns, when negative evolution is achieved
"human characteristics begin to fade, [and] the voice becomes unrecognizable." The
recurrent reptilian and fish imagery should not be interpreted as something merely
symbolic. The Bureau has every reason to believe that Hyper-C activists are pursuing all
available means to bring about a return to the "icthiophidian flexomotile" spine.
The Federation regards Hyper-C as one of the most serious threats to the stability of the
Ecumenon. These "Aquassassins" are a Lemurian weapon aimed at Human Security, and
it is a matter of urgency that their activities be undermined "by any means necessary".