His kneecap resonates with a tin rounded sound. The
hammer strikes the centre; a dent belongs to the event;
puckered metal forms a landscape within. Scars of slashed
steel are left by the indentation of a heavy, thumping device.
Magic-emperors appear; they are lit from behind, they are
circled in an arc, organised around carousel decoration,
English art-deco figureheads, which are filled in with the
representations of detailed botanical paintings, the use of
myth, Buddhist-Kings. Such Binder-Gods, chime pleasantly
when they are lit, they can see you, being covenant enhanced
and resounding;- for example, Loci and his lamp, Radha with
her dance, Arthurian legend, the one-eyed monster directing
from a clearing, the animals gathered kiss the ground and
become grass. The arc is woven with symbol and refrain,
vulgar music, the clatter of mechanism as its appeal is
telegraphed, transformed and transmitted. The half-circled
regalia of the stance, pictures an horrific progression. You
must play the game. The figures are lit from the back; they
shine, it is hard to escape their gaze.
Below the magic-emperors are the more complex regimes of
pattern and belief. They take hold of the players, not rapt with
the power of the look. They are never fully lit up, they never
totally confront you with your fear; but define pathways and
webs of connection that lead onto different levels. There are a
complicated mass of socio-historic signs and signifiers;
entirely jumbled into abstract symbolism and logical
distinction. Planes of colour, diagonal and axial crosses,
digital codes, heraldry, stars, pentangles, circles and squares.
This confusion of relative power relations, manifest
themselves as the legitimised ornaments of government;Chamfort, Goerring, Lord Palmerston, Henry Kissenger.
These are the manipulators of the knot; they appear on the
letterhead, they take bites out of logos, they make feasts with
one-arm bandits; they laugh, as the coins fall from the sky.
Fully encased in metal, another ball bearing fires. It flies into
the chaos of combat; war, mutilated body parts, triggered
islands of information. The mechanical noises accumulate
your score, it roams over centuries, half-buried; then surfaces
at an instance of opposition, silence, and revenge. It is a
genetic algorithm of detailed psychosis, which is written by a
shuffling, anonymous attendant. You are placed on the
operating table, he implants you with your score, you are
ready to continue, able to make another play. The ball passes
through the gap, the violence is evacuated; the Gods lit up,
the symbols and signs direct the process to the next phase.
Here money and their markets, the individual and game
theory, all exist in various states of equilibrium. No longer
playing, but being played, no longer spending, but being
spent; the thresholds are subtle, the diversions extreme,
unrelenting. Competitive equilibrium is nonpersonal. The
theory of the core dictates markets which depend on
individual actions. Core analysis is the determination of a set
of possible outcomes, these outcomes are compatible with
their dealers; competition is not regulated from the outside.
Price stability must be actively pursued if it is to effect the
market. Dealers and traders participate in this regulation
themselves; money is assumed, value is transitive, fluid;
metal poured through open chutes. Core theory solves
problems involving increased returns, indivisibilities, lump
funded projects. The collision of active interest capacity forces
imputations into the core; the markets are traced within closer
and tighter circuits. Trading tackles new limits of multi-unitary
dimension, relations between traders and dealers are here
complex convex-works; such convexity has the implication of
sealing off the relations between markets into sets which
satisfy core constraints. Nonempty cores are therefore
necessary to address game models of market forces.
Common unit values have to be pursued, these values are
potentially pro-active, and independent. Money can set up on
its own.
Information is expensive. Market participants limit their
contacts depending on the number of information sources
which are available. Information directs the speed of the
market. Substitution allows the participants to be involved in
the market for the longest possible period. With substitution,
the information needed to secure contact between
participants is at its lowest cost. Products may then be
transferred in their constituent units. Trade becomes
predictable. The Cournot-Nash theory supplies a framework
for determining the relationship between collusion and
competition. Under these conditions, market forces are
stabilised, the predictability of substituted trade transfers to
legal restraint, black markets are dominated and subsumed.
Thus information acts in a bipodal fashion with respect to
trade. It encourages substitution, and it develops different
strata of relations; those legislated, and those beyond the law.
In the net landscape of information dispersal, the trade
relations may be simultaneously, delegislated and
unsubstituted.
The next game expands beyond the cybernetic interactions of
trade. It engulfs a continent, the Indian peninsula. The conflict
between the superpowers, has left a deep rift in the
organization of society; the modern equivalent of Athens and
Sparta, fighting over history. The gulf between land and city
defines a zone of interaction, which has the potential to
become infected by innovation, and the organization of flows
of capital. Indian social structures are ready to be swept into
this interaction, reorganized, and re-established in different
phases. Out of phase, demonic and creative, the caste
system defines new ways of looking at social structure. The
myths of the Hindu, lit up from behind, arced onto the
platinum dashboard of technological innovation, and
combined with the patterns and signs of Manu belief; together
foretell a liberalised future of city life. Bangalore defines this
state, it is a state which Heidegger could not have conceived
of; it is a state which amphetamine sulphate will not take you
close to. Bangalore is a postmodern opiate, an offshoot from
the vision of Ridley Scott. The edge of war, cyberspace.
Stanislav Andreski looks at the issue of social change in
terms of biataxy. Biataxy is the settlement of argument
through force. No society is completely devoid of biataxy.
Through its placement as the backdrop for the assessment of
social matters; many of the false oppositions in society may
be removed. War is not opposite to peace, love has nothing to
do with hate. All are forces, any expression presupposes the
setting of biataxy; Gandhi and Nehru, with the formal
expression of peace, were defining a methodology for dealing
with imminent thermo-nuclear attack. The UN, with its global
crusade to maintain the status quo, are preparing us for
cyberspace. War on the internet is immanent; it has no
precursors, it has no goals, it will not cause any territories to
fall, other than its own. This collapse is the integration of
technology with biology. The fusion of metal and flesh, the
intensity of the flame with the atom.
Deleuze and Guattari explore these factors through an
examination of isomorphy. Capital can be mobilised to render
projects such as communication with extra-terrestrials as
operative; thus flows of money open up the edge for further
territorial gains. This is axiomatic to the extent that decoded
flows may be thought of in terms of immanent models of
realisation. Such isomorphy, accommodates itself to the
greatest of formal differences, encompassing polymorphic
models, and political "problems" in the organization of a State.
In the climate of information technology, the axiomatic and
models of realisation, are continually crossing over each in
communication. Social subjectification proportions itself to the
model of realisation, machinic enslavement expands to meet
the dimensions of the axiomatic that are effectuated in the
model. In the example of television, the viewer is enslaved as
a human machine insofar as they are no longer consumers or
users or subjects; but are intrinsic component parts, input and
output, feedback; recurrences which are no longer connected
to the machine in such a way as to produce it.
In the orientation of game theory, strategies vary from
zero-sum to non-zero-sum. Social choices are viewed as
being on a continuum, from pure co-ordination through mixed
motive to pure conflict games. Since most social choices can
be effected only if coalitions are formed, the processes of
coalition formation must be theorised if the mechanisms of
social choice are to be understood. A minimum resource
theory will emphasise the initial resources to effect a decision
which the players bring to the situation, rather than their
strategic bargaining position. The minimum power theory acts
in a similar way to the minimum resource theory, making use
of coefficients to state that participants will demand a share of
the payoff proportional to their pivotal power. The pivotal
power hypothesis defines the power of the winning coalition;
anticompetitive hypotheses are useful to define the cohesion
of social groups, but tend to materialise norms by which social
behaviour may be placed against. Utter confusion theory,
where political coalitions emerge from complete bedlam, is
best theorised by the use of random choice process, where
coincidence may be written into the machinic operation of the
formula.
India's main adversary has been Pakistan. The development
of its nuclear capacity has been a closely debated race
between the two nations. Domestic nuclear power, the threat
of attack from the superpowers and China, have added
impetus to the necessity for splitting the atom. Both now
possess the ability to launch nuclear attack. The climate of
suspicion has given way to the unease of nuclear stalemate.
Economic development in India will encourage the expansion
of foreign policy; yet the capital required to shift the core
zones of Tokyo, Singapore or Hong Kong to Bangalore, will
only be achieved via the acceleration inherent within
information dispersal. The substantial Indian meshwork was
written into the post-British Indian withdrawal; it was a product
of the conflict between neighbours in the socio-economic
region and the restructured relationship between village and
town. The antimarket is in place to the extent that the
non-competitive elements have been set into society by the
codes of religion; the self organization of the rural, and the
abundant entrepreneurial expertise. The last component
necessary for the development of microeconomic relationship
reversals is the internet or (directed information), the reality of
information dispersal. Asia as the producer, Europe as the
market. The feedback processes shall increase up until a
biurfication point, at which the socio-economic flows shall be
considered to be invariant. Asia will then be the core, Europe
and America will turn around it; feeding off the dual axioms of
violence and leisure.
Religion has played a pivotal role in the regulation of violence
between city and the Land. The rule of the priests, not being
centrally governed has dictated the sedimentation of social
spheres into their component parts. This has been called
stratification. Yet as real time is subsumed beneath economic
acceleration, the sediment will be dissolved, they will go to
make a figure such as:- becoming lava. This precipitates the
reorganization of Indian society on the grounds of economic
microunits; through bypassing governmental regulation, and
with the biataxic conditions of polarity, relativatised into
webworks of information loss and retrieval. The product
assimilation of peasant aggregates, is not Marxian in the
establishment of harmonised power structures, dealing fluidly
with control mechanisms; convergent points becoming pivotal
in the matrix. It will instead lead to the war zone being
translated onto the net. Harmonisation is not a factor in the
determination of the redistribution of wealth. The cyclic
process of product level versus dispersal rate, defines the
way in which global wealth shall be rationalised into
noticeable reversals of international economic market forces.
This has also been looked at in terms of saturation. It could be
falsely claimed that the saturation of a system marks its point
of inversion. Yet saturation itself is relative. The
axiomatisation of capital flows defines an immanent system of
laws. This system continually confronts its own laws as the
motor for market renewal. In the nuclear industry, the laws
which are continually confronted, are the laws of energy
dispersal, which are tending to become gridded, in ever
increasing complex networks, depending on the available
saturation points within the system. These points are the focal
markers of grid complexification; known as attractors of phase
movement, and the stage directions for social change. In
terms of electronic media, the saturation points are the
convergent elements of socio-economic organization. They
are the profit centres of information and distributed, molecular
models of realisation.
The continual adjustment of the axioms of market forces,
results in struggles for the enunciation of principle and the
tension in the State. Large corporations, State benefactors,
military pressure groups; are the liquidating factors in the rural
field of immanence. There is a fundamental difference
between the living flows, and the axioms which subordinate
themselves to centres of control and decision making. The
latter act in order to produce a given geographical segment,
corresponding to their axioms which they then measure in
quanta. Living flows do not orientate themselves in a centrally
locatable formation of technocratic hierarchy. They are the
moving parts of the relationships between status and order;
the cyclones and the precipitation. These base units or cells
are the exigent matters in the affairs of the State. BSE or the
reorganization of Soviet farming economies, show that the
proliferance of State legislation in a rural setting, makes the
hierarchical relationship between city and the Land fragile and
brittle. If market forces are to be in phase with living axioms
State legislation has to be bypassed, singularities must be
followed, the sword has to be cast in the forge.
States are isomorphic. They encourage the homogenisation
of capital in an external world market. They also promote the
existence of a single integrated domestic market, as is
happening in Europe. The isomorphy of the models of
production of the State depends upon how the domestic and
foreign markets are distributed. This isomorphy is not
homogeneous as such, but collects axioms into unities or
rights. These consistencies are divided by capital into
segments which span modes of production and the political
hierarchies which grow around them. The parasitical
functionalism of the socialist States, which has been framed
as "virus-creative" is the model of market realisation, which by
and large has been used in the Third World. The existence of
a single external world market determines the plane of capital
which is to be extracted from the emergent State organization
of the parasitic and the viral. This is by no means the old style
relationship of dependency and gain, which hailed from the
colonial empires; and is particularly pertinent in the example
of India. The tyranny of tea and opium, has given way to a
capital relationship; one which may be manipulated from
either end of the transfer of resource, money or skills. This is
a polymorphic situation, and one in which the axiomatics of
India will not necessarily be absorbed into core markets at the
centre.
Polymorphism constitutes beneficial conditions by which
information dispersal may be achieved. The net will be
wrenched from the nerd-monopoly which seeks to isolate
certain functioning capacities in the end-game strategies of
accumulative choice. These paradigms are programmed by
the Western ideals of democracy, freedom and Enlightenment
teaching. These are weak and unstable, in relation to the
Eastern social movements of multicellular yet combined
axiomatic dispersal. Japan was a beginning. The forecast
Pacific-Rim trading figures, are a smoke-screen. The real
action starts to take place when the polymorphism of the
viral-creative is translated into trade relations which reflect the
substantial productive capacities of the rhizomatic. That is,
shifting circuits of energy interaction, where the innovative
and technological are injected into the living body of axiomatic
production. Products are the transitive and valueless
ornaments of a world trade situation, in which the benefactors
are in the process of becoming irrelevant. Their subsidence
into the organic, is the translation of a code which began in
the fifteenth century.
DNA is the last gasp of Western science. The decoding of the
double helix, is the model of realisation for the Enlightenment
ideal of discovering the secrets of nature. This fantasy has
economic and social concomitant effects. The economic
realities of the biotechnology which has evolved around the
search for DNA strands has pushed the socio-scientific
community to new levels of integration. Yet these levels are
not matched by the flows of capital into the development of
socio-economic conditions to sustain the search at its optimal
level of speed. Instead, the technology is fully transferable to
other locations with lower levels of production cost, and more
integrated communities, where ideal time direction may be
situated in a consistent and stable strata. With the
circumvention of central capital accumulation, the escape
from the regulation of bureaucracy, and the development of
socius interaction without the necessity of defense
mechanisms inhibiting viral creation the communal scientific
prerogative of the West will be reversed. This shall be a
relative reversal, corresponding to capital saturation points,
and the phase stages involved with social movement.
The Brahmin as nomads. Lines of flight described as
East-West pivots. The Aryan invaders used their metallurgic
skill to innovate beyond the levels of their sedentary
adversaries. The laws of Manu, the myths of the Hindu, are
the overcoded fragments of war; implanted in a relationship
with the Land, needed to establish the domain between rival
city states. The Land watched on in bewilderment, as the
warring factions proceeded to destroy one another. This
destruction has been arrested by the advent of the nuclear
age. War on the extrinsic scale is impossible. The State
system, left by the British, consolidated by the Gandhi elite,
and ignored by the majority; is in an isomorphic process of
implosion. The remnants of the previous relationship between
the urban and the rural is in the process of re-establishing a
trade network, on all levels of stratified Indian life. This
network is not a simple meshwork of interlocking elements,
ready to trade at any cost; but requires the permutation of
possible dispersal mechanisms to be experimented with. The
necessary capital flows must not be acceded by the
hierarchical reintegration of unsubstantive status and the
establishment. The Brahmin are a key element in this network
realisation.
Unlike the Christian West, the Brahmin do not
straightforwardly suffer from effete moral dehabilitation. The
quandary and oscillation between good and evil; is not a
consideration. The life draining focus on the weak is not as
such a problem. The Brahmin reflect the multifarious
relationship between Land and City. Theirs is a social code;
and one which may be coherently transfered into a productive
synthesis in an information environment. They shall be the
organisers of Bangalore. They will be fighters in the war on
the net.
You twitch on the table. A metallic pain is thumping through
your head. A faint techno-Indian tune stimulates the memory
to olfactory delight; dancing, bright colours, the sensual feel of
a ceremony. Perhaps Kali has been painting the world; it
seems to be full of life, the repetition of the same has been
replaced by the taste of a web; female warriors, by the
delicious scent of the kill permeating your mind. Yet it isn't
real, its another perverse illusion, another digital piece of
make-believe. You vibrate between two realities; the
awakened Asian, the deadened European, yet the choice is
not so stark, one does not feed off of the other. The
relationship has been already established, it has already been
played through.
A different God on the arc lights up. Its gaze takes your fear
away, it makes you believe in your fate. The decoration, the
clatter of the mechanical sound takes away some of the pain.
The patterns and signs of belief signal diversions, they are
wrapped up, presented on the table, as metal interactions
accelerate between them;- they become speed, explode and
disappear in the chiming reverberations of the score. The
score is decoded by the attendant, he lurches away,
deliberately, awkwardly. Then you realise;- the score, he has
the score, what is he going to do with it? Where is he taking
it? Why do you have to keep playing this ridiculous game?
Another ball bearing fires, it flies off into the chaos of war;combat, mutilated body parts, triggered islands of
information.......