D e c a y
What does happen to the body of an object in decay?
by Basilisk
Unlike the heroic views on decay, considering decomposition as a
process of 'naturalization', 'utter disappearance and destruction',
'deliverance' or 'rebirth' whose ultimate aim is a kind of libidinal (and in the
same track, economic) domestication and appropriation, decay is an
artificializing process spreading its septic distributions of matter/energy
under the milieus of Nature and undermining them. In no way does it wipe
out or terminate, on the contrary it keeps alive: it is where the rotting
process separates itself from the devastating warmachines of termination,
mayhem, terror, annihilation, tragedy and violence, but never abandons
them; it undermines them, mutates them, brings them to where there is no
hot power (Puissance= p) in production or that is to say neither it
introduces Power (puissanceas in La Volonté de puissance) into erasure and
utter eradication (p ≠ 0; or the solidless nihil) nor refreshes it [1]. It colds
them down by putrefying Power, namely, the fuel by which the lines of
mayhem and termination are metabolized and try to infringe this
metabolism (transgressing Power?). It does cold them down by making
Power undefined, darkened and blotted out; by depositing p (Macht) over
the nihilistic Zero (p⁄ 0): not wiping it out to disappearance or dissolving it
to Zero, quite opposite keeping it for snuff and decomposition, taking a
necrophilic [2] experience out of it; marring it on the virtual surfaces of
zero to be rotten and reeked up: 'sucking death from the living without
falling into the black transparency of total disappearance or Death' which
means Mess. Decay introduces power to the mis-adventures of matter; ...
and earth is the adventures of decay. All encounters with the cold-core(s)
of Death or Life result in contamination, plague, base-necrophilia and snuff,
possession and cold-burning experiences poisoning one for all eternity [3];
one is thrown beyond Death and Life as the equilibrial states, is introduced
to an anonymity far from the economical processes of dying and living that
is to say a mess through which life and death proliferate and slime each
other [4]. Everything succumbs to both yield and withstand before such an
inter-dimensional catastrophe. There is no deliverance for one who runs
into the cold-core(s) of life or death, whether by dying or living; one's
matter becomes a lab plate on which base-necrophilia / participation and
communication are germinated. This is the convoluted, compositional and
terminal space of blindness dissipating its curtains across the coastlines
which lead to the naked oceans of Death; there is no flight for one who is
introduced to this labyrinth or blindness neither to the oceans of death nor
to the terrains of live-ing (The only flight is a cataflight [5]) ... and there is
no way to find out if one has slipped to the ocean or not. It is where the
land and the ocean, space and matter and one along with all it carries skip
the horizon (whether in life, death or existence) and jump to an anonymity
that both death and life find repugnant but affirm through the strategic
ways. Vaporized in the vaginal depths of anonymity, one, bits by bits, is laid
bare to mess, proliferation, plague, septic peace, venereal alliance,
facelessness, base-necrophilia, river blindness (the river which was
supposed to dissolve into the ocean), possession, snuff, cosmic
contamination and all fluent rots murmuring taste your mortality while
erasing all routs to Death.
Speaking of blindness, one should not mistake it for the condition of
cecity and sightlessness; it is the blindness of excess in sight and the colors
achromatized in coldness, not to black and white but to the colors with
proliferated coordinates, conditions and spectra ... cancerous, cold and
feverish like tropical diseases: Green of jungle, light brown of your eyes ...
Persian blue of a corpse ... darkness. [6]
Auto-collapse: Planting puissance on the cold zero is the mechanism
of decay (p/0); it is also the collapse or unground from which Snuff,
Necrophilia and Asiatic horror emerge without genesis. [7]
Then, how does the rotting process put the puissance over the Asiatic
zero to mess it up? The answer lies on its delirium to spew dimensions and
cancerous attitude toward metron [8], proliferating everything it touches,
feeding on the terminal tactics of malignancy, softness, sleazy
germinations, vermiculation and malicious mimics of 'living' and survival
economy to necrotize the object while keeping it alive for proceeding its
cold-workings when the object has no idea of what is going on: the
Absolute Peace of Decay. [9]
Decay crisscrosses death and germinates its own headless kingdoms,
all 'anonymous, cold-core, desolated, toxic and peaceful.' Decay always
casts shadows over everything it touches, a shadowgraphic machine.
The ironic and loathsome mechanism of decay is always at work to
both keep alive and snuff. By proliferating and working on dimensions (it
affirms dimensions.), decay estranges itself from both nature and 'the
natural' since it diverges from the immense formlessness of nature that
abhors the dimensions, standards, scales, metrons and measures from
which systems, territories, and assemblages are put together, fabricated
and posed; so it starts exactly from which nature abhors: dimension and
metron as the matrixes and the frameworks of Power, as the linkages by
which institutions, productions and the modes of power are interconnected
and secured within each other, extending themselves across the space of
'Live-ing' or the economicaland parsimonious 'art of surviving', survival
economy. From the outset to the end, the rotting process deals with
dimensions and metrons, fouling up (but not purge) everything dimensional
to no end (what is the end in the sense of decay?). Not all this means that
decay undertakes the 'Will of Nature' and its crazy capital by vitiating
dimensions and metrons; but it unfolds through the artificiality of
dimension (messing them) and metron and sinks into the anonymity of
dimensionality wreckage or demonic solid (corpse of solidus [10]) ... if
earth is the compositional adventures of decay, then what is natural in the
sense of the Earth (the Artificial Earth)?. The naturalistic or naturistic views
always miss decay as the inexorable machinery of becoming imperceptible:
exposed before the vitriolic mouth of 'Anonymity'.
Decay rots judgment as a primal strategy; ... rotting metrons,
dimensions, scales, ...
It is a dreadfully paranoid / oedipalized cognitive blueprint
(envisioned hygienically on an anthropomorphian construction; utopia?) to
incorporate or consolidate Death and Decay, each as the perfectionist
supplement of the other ... there is a fundamental horror gapping in cogito
toward decay process that is disloyal even to the most abject landscapes of
coldness and cruelty, scavenging death upon the blight, playing the role of
a renegade to death; even Deleuze and Guattari with their staggering
insights into schizotechnics(Nick Land) fall into this fundamentally paranoid
but grotesque and cryptic consolidation / domestication: "a powerful odor
of decay and death" [Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus] ... it is a
medicinally sweet odor of a sterilized ground on which death and decay are,
paranoiacally, Capitalized as One.
Plunged into the fungoid oceans of decay, dimensions and metronsare
deteriorating under the cold-core machine of rot. 'Too dimensioning' is the
strategy of this machine. Through the rotting process, everything is
disintegrated; this is a way of 'too dimensioning' and proliferating metrons,
as disintegration is a terminal tactic to breed more and more dimensions,
spawning more and more measures, micro-scales, metronic cells, molecular
patches of matter/energy entangled blindly, labyrinthine nexuses of
dimensions, hyper-complex dimensionalities and wasteful dumps of
metrons paralyzed to work in such a mess, such a vermiculate excretion.
(To this extent, speaking of local decay is a premature discourse.) Decay
appears as scarring and cancer, a metastatic tissue sliming the organs to
the defunct coils of softness; or fibrosis in which an organ goes awry by
excessive scarring (dimensions through dimensions ... through dimensions
prodigally), losing its functions and rotting alive ... a scarring face fading
out to black ... continuing the scene on the swelling up pixels. (Isn't
blistering a visual spoof of decay, a hoax of initiation? But decay is already
there.)
Decay is the imminent multiplicity and qualitative motions to all
compositions (solids and void, etc.), an ungrounding process (strategy)
which lays openness to the compositions by the vermiculation (as of the
motions of a coil of worms) of dimensions and composites through each
other to the point of an irresistible softness. Decay makes the compositions
affirm [11] each other not at the level of being open but rather being,
lacerated and laid open [12] (being opened). Vermiculation, also, extends
the movements as far as they can mutate, and engineer the new
becomings, and more. Decay is the life of the architectures and
compositions through and on an epidemic affirmance and not affordance
[13] and survival economy.
However, the disintegration that rotting process introduces to an
object is not a regular disintegration [14] as of separation into component
parts, fragments, an atomization, a segmentation or an inverse-
segmentation; it is a non-fragmentary disintegration in which everything is
kept intra-connected exorbitantly, so gooey and soft that rejecting the
wasteful bonds with the others (openness) is inevitable and impossible
(integration is impossible because of this super-soft compos-ition and the
wasteful bonds which infest the Whole and its economical bonds). A
mucous continuity in disintegration. The Soft disintegration of decay softens
and disintegrates by opening everything to each other, letting the 'hard'
exists through the Soft. In decay, compositions are engineered through this
soft disintegration and not integration. Should it be discussed that decay
does not start from softness or the soft parts; it sucks softness from the
hard or in another sense making the hard an infested factory for breeding a
Softness which again is anonymous even to the formlessness of nature, an
artificial and compositional softness engineer through the tactical
multiplicities of affirmation and openness. Once again, this softness or soft
disintegration is not the disintegration by breaking up the solid into
controlled parts (analyzed partiality) or new solids, re-modifying the bonds
of solidity but an epidemic lysis by opening everything to each other,
proliferating the dimensions of solid, possessing solidity to spoil itself not to
death but overhealth [15]. (Corpses look too artificial. Of course, they
are; ... the earth too.) The soft disintegration does not deliver the object
and its architecture to their basic elements or nature (the horizon of purity,
'from ash to ash' or 'dust to dust' [pulvis ad pulverem] exploited by all
monotheistic cultures and the State), a process through which deliverance
or salvation are expected; it simply deviates them to something basically
deranged, a mess beyond re-modifying bonds of solidity but capable of
mutating to anything, even solid ... a mess external to the recycling and
economical functioning formulae but dangerous as it can mutate and spawn
mess; infesting the horizon of solidity (In decay, there is no return to
nature, constituents, the basic elements, or anything else; it is all
affirmation of anonymity.). Not only solidity is introduced to decay but also
liquid and GAS; but the latter uses the ultimate decay as a life through
which everything is reeked up: GAS ... plastic spirit. Artificiality of
Chemistry (alchemy) begins with decay.
Stripped before the mess agents of decay, one can always ask, "Isn't
thought a gaseous rot?" ... the question reverberates cancerously through
the fetid air.
The resistance toward 'decay' is both futile and fertile. But then, what
is fertility in the sense of the resistance toward decay? There is a yawning
horror in this question.
Notes:
[1] For more details on the non-purgative subsidence of power and solidity, see:
Acephalous Mouth and Cata[2] On necrophilia, see: PestisSolidus
[3] For more the lineaments of such encounters (base-communication), see: Chernukha:
on Russian necrorealist cinema
[4] see Pestis Solidus and Chernukha: on Russian necrorealist cinema
[5] On cataflight, see: Cata[6] On Blindness, see: Cata- and Druj (Mother of Abominations)
[7] On the thing without genesis, see: Cata[8] On metron, see: Pestis Solidus, especially endnote 3:
Metron (Greek origin), hidden in the English words such as Dimension (from dimetiri:
measure out), meter, etc. With a prominent reference to the famous doctrine of
Pythagoras, "Man is the metron of everything" (pantôn chrematôn metron anthrôpos),
metron can be translated as Scale, Measure, Standard, and Value. According to Sextus
Empiricus metron expresses criterium (scale, measure) but as seen by Heraclitus and
Sophocles, it certifies dominance, a domination over something. Therefore, metron
indicates that both measures and dimensions (whether as in critique of power or grund)
inter-connect with Power, Justifying, Reasoning and the Philosophy or the Sciences of
grund. The critique of metron diagrams how dimensions (namely metron) bring the Power
into effect, then, mobilizing and propagating it through the autonomous fields of metornic
fluxes or pseudo-flux (see Pestis Solidus; it also shows how metron has been established
as the ultimate fluxional machinery (dynamism) of power, solidity and their productions in
all planes, as a (re-)animator. Additionally and more significantly, it discusses metron
(both in its flexible and rigid attitudes) as an invisible (and extremely complex) workground on which Solidity and Power overlap each other and dissolve into the hydraulic
grid of circulatory metrons or genesis (Genesis project) or 'Survival Economy' through
which all dynamisms are the complex conveyances or transportations (means of
resettlement, mobility, transferral and dynamic fertilization) of solidus or grund i.e. the
lines of ground or solidus amplification which process and necessitate solidity as the
surplus value of solidus in circulation (Solidity is not rigidity, it is the surplus value of
pseudo-fluxes, or ground mobilized through metrons.), as the only origination through
Genesis Project. Through survival economy, everything dynamic or flowing is sought to be
significated by metron. 'Solidus-in-circulation' is the economic network of grund armed
with the lines of pseudo-flux, metornic dynamisms and slope processes. The dynamism of
metrons installs the grund as the significated fluvius or the fluvial process. For additional
references on metron, see: Measures and Men, Witold Kula, Princton University Press,
1986
[9] See Remarks on Asiatic Peace
[10] On corpse-of-solidus, see: Acephalous Mouth and Cata[11] On affirmation, Nietzsche and openness, see: A Good Meal and Cata[12] On epidemic openness, see: A Good Meal
[13] On affordance, see: Cata-, especially endnote 3
[14] In this sense, disintegration is nothing but another consolidation.
[15] On overhealth, see: Acephalous Mouth