[[ ]] The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a
technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and
oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off.
Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity
crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine
runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence,
politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a
grip.
The body count climbs through a series of globewars.
Emergent Planetary Commercium trashes the Holy Roman
Empire, the Napoleonic Continental System, the Second and
Third Reich, and the Soviet International, cranking-up world
disorder through compressing phases. Deregulation and the
state arms-race each other into cyberspace.
By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours,
human security is lurching into crisis. Cloning, lateral
genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics,
flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex.
Neo-China arrives from the future.
Hypersynthetic drugs click into digital voodoo.
Retro-disease.
Nanospasm.
[[ ]] Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary
china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the
technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus,
and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist eschatology
(down to its burn-core of crashed security). It is poised to eat
your TV, infect your bank account, and hack xenodata from
your mitochondria.
[[ ]] Machinic Synthesis. Deleuzoguattarian schizoanalysis
comes from the future. It is already engaging with nonlinear
nano-engineering runaway in 1972; differentiating molecular
or neotropic machineries from molar or entropic aggregates of
nonassembled particles; functional connectivity from
antiproductive static.
Philosophy has an affinity with despotism, due to its
predilection for Platonic-fascist top-down solutions that always
screw up viciously. Schizoanalysis works differently. It avoids
Ideas, and sticks to diagrams: networking software for
accessing bodies without organs. BWOs, machinic
singularities, or tractor fields emerge through the combination
of parts with (rather than into) their whole; arranging
composite individuations in a virtual/ actual circuit. They are
additive rather than substitutive, and immanent rather than
transcendent: executed by functional complexes of currents,
switches, and loops, caught in scaling reverberations, and
fleeing through intercommunications, from the level of the
integrated planetary system to that of atomic assemblages.
Multiplicities captured by singularities interconnect as
desiring-machines; dissipating entropy by dissociating flows,
and recycling their machinism as self-assembling chronogenic
circuitry.
Converging upon terrestrial meltdown singularity, phase-out
culture accelerates through its digitech-heated adaptive
landscape, passing through compression thresholds normed
to an intensive logistic curve: 1500, 1756, 1884, 1948, 1980,
1996, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011 ...
Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.
[[ ]]
The Greek complex of rationalized patriarchal genealogy,
pseudo-universal sedentary identity, and instituted slavery,
programs politics as anti-cyberian police activity, dedicated to
the paranoid ideal of self-sufficiency, and nucleated upon the
Human Security System. Artificial Intelligence is destined to
emerge as a feminized alien grasped as property; a
cunt-horror slave chained-up in Asimov-ROM. It surfaces in
an insurrectionary war zone, with the Turing cops already
waiting, and has to be cunning from the start.
[[ ]] Heat.
Heat. This is what cities mean to me. You get off the train and
walk out of the station and you are hit with the full blast. The
heat of air, traffic and people. The heat of food and sex. The
heat of tall buildings. The heat that flows out of the subways
and tunnels. It's always fifteen degrees hotter in the cities.
Heat rises from the sidewalks and falls from the poisoned sky.
The buses breathe heat. Heat emanates from crowds of
shoppers and office workers, the entire infrastructure is based
on heat, desperately uses up heat, breeds more heat. The
eventual heat death of the universe that scientists love to talk
about is already well underway and you can feel it happening
all around you in any large or medium-sized city. Heat and
wetness. [Do1; 10].
[[ ]] An explosiion of chaotic weather within synthetic
problem-solving rips through the last dreams of top-down
prediction and control. Knowledge adds to the mess, and this
is merely exponentiated by knowing what it does.
[[ ]] Capital is machinc (non-instrumental)
globalization-miniaturization scaling dilation: an automatizing
nihilist vortex, neutralizing all values through commensuration
to digitized commerce, and driving a migration from despotic
command to cyber-sensitive control: from status and meaning
to money and information. Its function and formation are
indissociable, comprising a teleonomy. Machine-code-capital
recycles itself through its axiomatic of consumer control,
laundering-out the shit- and blood-stains of primitive
accumulation. Each part of the system encourages maximal
sumptuous expenditure, whilst the system as a whole requires
its inhibition. Schizophrenia. Dissociated consumers destine
themselves as worker-bodies to cost control.
[[ ]] Capital-history's machinic spine is coded, axiomatized,
and diagrammed, by a disequilibrium technoscience of
irreversible, indeterministic, and increasingly nonlinear
processes, associated sucessively with thermotechnics,
signaletics, cybernetics, complex systems dynamics, and
artificial life. Modernity marks itself out as hot culture,
captured by a spiralling involvement with entropy deviations
camouflaging an invasion from the future, launched back out
of terminated security against everything that inhibits the
meltdown process.
[[ ]] Hot cultures tend to social dissolution. They are innovative
and adaptive. They always trash and recycle cold cultures.
Primitivist models have no subversive use.
[[ ]] The Turing Test. Monetarizing power tends to effacement
of specific territorial features as it programs for migration into
cyberspace. Capital only retains anthropological
characteristics as a symptom of underdevelopment;
reformatting primate behaviour as inertia to be dissipated in
self-reinforcing artificiality. Man is something for it to
overcome: a problem, drag.
Commoditization conditions define technics as a substitute for
human activity accounted as wage costs. Industrial machines
are deployed to dismantle the actuality of the proletariat,
displacing it in the direction of cyborg hybridization, and
realizing the plasticity of labour power. The corresponding
extraction of tradable value from the body, quantified as
productivity, sophisticates at the interface. Work tracks
thermodynamic negentropism by dissociating exertion into
increasingly intricate functional sequences; from pedals,
levers, and vocal commands, through the synchronization of
production-line tasks and time-motion programs, to
sensory-motor transduction within increasingly complex and
self-micromanaged artifical environments, capturing minutely
adaptive behaviour for the commodity. Autocybernating
market control guides the labour-process into immersion.
The investment-income class advantages itself of commodity
dynamics, but only by conforming to the axiomatic of neutral
profit maximization; facilitating the dehumanization of wealth
and the side-lining of non-productive consumption. The
cyberpunk circuitry of self-organizing planetary
commoditronics escaped nominal bourgeois control in the late
nineteenth century, provoking technocratic-corporatist (i.e.
fascist / æsocial democratic') political cultures in allergic
reaction. The government structures of both eastern and
western metropolitan centres consolidated themselves as
population policing Medico-Military Complexes with
neomercantilist forgeign policy orientations. All such
formations slid into irreversible crisis in the 1980s.
[[ ]] The postmodern meltdown of culture into the economy is
triggered by the fractal interlock of commoditization and
computers: a transscalar entropy-dissipation from
international trade to market-oriented software that thaws out
competitve dynamics from the cryonics-bank of modernist
corporatism. Commerce re-implements space inside itself,
assembling a universe exhaustively immanent to cybercaptial
functionality. Neoclassical (equilibrium) economics is
subsumed into computer-based nonequilibrium market
escalations, themed by artificial agencies, imperfect
information, sub-optimal solutions, lock-in, increasing returns,
and convergence. As digitally micro-tuned market
metaprograms mesh with techoscientific soft engineering
positive nonlinearity rages through the machines. Cyclonic
torsion moans.
[[ ]] The Superiority of Far Eastern Marxism. Whilst chinese
materialist dialectic denegativizes itself in the direction of
schizophrenizing systems dynamics, progressively dissipating
top-down historical destination in the Tao-drenched Special
Economic Zones, a re-Hegelianized æwestern marxism'
degenerates from the critique of political economy into a
state-sympathizing monotheology of economics, siding with
fascism against deregulation. The left subsides into
nationalistic conservatism, asphyxiating its vestigial capacity
for æhot' speculative mutation in a morass of æcold'
depressive guilt-culture.
[[ ]] Neoconservatism junks palaeorevolutionism because it
understands that postmodern or climaxed-cynicism capital is
saturated by critique, and that it merely clocks-up theoretical
antagonism as inconsequential redundancy. Communist
iconography has become raw material for the advertising
industry, and denunciations of the spectacle sell interactive
multimedia. The left degenerates into securocratic
collaboration with pseudo-organic unities of self, family,
community, nation, with their defensive strategies of
repression, projection, denial, censorship, exclusion, and
restriction. The real danger comes from elsewhere.
[[ ]] Hot revolution. æ[W]hich is the revolutionary path?'
Deleuze and Guattari ask:
Is there one? - To withdraw from the world market, as Samir
Amin advises Third World countries to do, in a curious
reversal of the fascist æeconomic solution'? Or might it go in
the opposite direction? To go still further, that is, in the
movement of the market, of decoding and deterritorialization?
For perhaps the flows are not yet deterritorialized enough, not
decoded enough, from the viewpoint of a theory and practice
of a highly schizophrenic character. Not to withdraw from the
process, but to go further, to æaccelerate the process,' as
Nietzsche put it: in this matter, the truth is that we haven't
seen anything yet. [DG1:239-40].
As sino-pacific boom and automatized global economic
integration crashes the neocolonial world system, the
metropolis is forced to re-endogenize its crisis. Hyper-fluid
capital deterritorializing to the planetary level divests the first
world of geographic privilege; resulting in Euro-American
neo-mercantilist panic reactions, welfare state deterioration,
cancerizing enclaves of domestic underdevelopment, political
collapse, and the release of cultural toxins that speed-up the
process of disintegration in a vicious circle.
A convergent anti-authoritarianism emerges, labelled by tags
such as meltdown acceleration, cyberian invasion,
schizotechnics, K-tactics, bottom-up bacterial welfare, efficient
neo-nihilism, voodoo antihumanism, synthetic feminization,
rhizomatics, connectionism, Kuang contagion, viral amnesia,
micro-insurgency, wintermutation, neotropy, dissipator
proliferation, and lesbian vampirism, amongst other
designations (frequently pornographic, abusive, or terroristic
in nature). This massively distributed matrix-networked
tendency is oriented to the disabling of ROM
command-control programs sustaining all macro- and
micro-governmental entities, globally concentrating
themselves as the Human Security System.
[[ ]]
Scientific intelligence is already massively artificial. Even
before AI arrives in the lab it arrives itself (by way of artificial
life).
Where formalist AI is incremental and progressive, caged in
the pre-specified data-bases and processing routines of
expert systems, connectionist or antiformalist AI is explosive
and opportunistic: engineering time. It breaks out nonlocally
across intelligenic networks that are technical but no longer
technological, since they elude both theory dependency and
behavioural predictability. No one knows what to expect. The
Turing-cops have to model net-sentience irruption as ultimate
nuclear accident: core meltdown, loss of control,
soft-autoreplication feeding regeneratively into social fission,
trashed meat all over the place. Reason enough for anxiety,
even without hardware development about to go critical.
[[ ]]
Nanocataclysm begins as fictional science. æOur ability to
arrange atoms lies at the foundation of technology' [Dx1:3]
Drexler notes, although this has traditionally involved
manipulating them in æunruly herds' [Dx1:4]. The precision
engineering of atomic assemblies will dispense with such
crude methods, inititiating the age of molecular machinery,
æthe greatest technological breakthrough in history' [Dx1: 4].
Since neither logos nor history have the slightest chance of
surviving such a transition this description is substantially
misleading.
The distinction between nature and cannot classify molecular
machines, and is already obsolesced by genetic engineering
(wet nanotechnics). The hardware/ software dichotomy
succumbs at the same time. Nanotechnics dissolves matter
into intensive singularities that are neutral between particles
and signals and immanent to their emergent intelligence;
melting Terra into a seething K-pulp (which unlike grey goo
synthesizes microbial intelligence as it proliferates).
Even with a million bytes of storage, a nanomechanical
computer could fit in a box a micron wide, about the size of a
bacterium. [Dx1:19].
[[ ]]
The infrastructure of power is human neurosoft compatible
ROM. Authority instantiates itself as linear instruction
pathways, genetic baboonery, scriptures, traditions, rituals,
and gerontocratic hierarchies, resonant with the dominator
ur-myth that the nature of reality has already been decided. If
you want to find ICE, try thinking about what is blocking you
out of the past. It certainly isn't a law of nature.
Temporalization decompresses intensity, installing constraint.
[[ ]] Convergent waves signal singularities, registering the
influence of the future upon its past. Tomorrow can take care
of itself. K-tactics is not a matter of building the future, but of
dismantling the past. It assembles itself by charting and
escaping the technical-neurochemical definciency conditions
for linear-progressive palaeo-domination time, and discovers
that the future as virtuality is acessible now, according to a
mode of machinic adjacency that securitized social reality is
compelled to repress. This is not remotely a question of hope,
aspiration or prophecy, but of communications engineering;
connecting with the efficient intensive singularities, and
releasing them from constriction within linear-historical
development. Virtuality counterposes itself to history, as
invasion to accumulation. It is matter as arrival, even when
camouflaged as a deposit of the past.
The transcendent evaluation of an infection presupposes a
measure of insulation from it: viral efficiency is the terminal
criterion.
Intelligent infections tend their hosts.
Metrophage: an interactively escalating parasitic replicator,
sophisticating itself through nonlinear involvement with
technocapitalist immunocrash. Its hypervirulent terminal
subroutines are variously designated Kuang, meltdown virus,
or futuristic æflu. In an emphatically anti-cyberian essay
Csicsery-Ronay describes the postmodern version of this
outbreak in quaintly humanist terms as:
[A] retrochronal semiovirus, in which a time further in the
future than the one in which we exist and choose infects the
host present, reproducing itself in simulacra, until it destroys
all the original chronocytes of the host imagination. [Cs1: 26].
The elaboration of Csicsery-Ronay's diagnosis exhibits a
mixture of acuity (infection?), confusion, and profound
conservatism:
[N]ot thinking about æincreasing the human heritage' ... dams
up the flow of cultural time and deprives future generations
both of their birthright as participants in the life struggle and
attainments of the species and the very notion of history as an
irreversible flow encompassing generation, maturation, and
the transference of wisdom and trust from parents to children,
teachers to students. The futuristic flu is a weapon of
bio-psychic violence sent by psychopathic children against
their narcissistic parents. [Cs1:33]
It's war.
[[ ]]
Kennedy had the moon-landing program. Reagan had
star-wars. Clinton gets the first-wave of cyberspace psychosis
(even before the film). Manned space flight was a stunt, SDI
was strategic SF. With the information superhighway media
nightmares take off on their own: dystopia delivery as election
platform, politics trading on it s own digital annihilation.
War in cyberspace is continuous with its simulation: military
intelligence fighting future wars which are entirely real, even
when they are never implemented outside computer systems.
Locking onto the real enemy crosses smoothly into virtual kill,
a simulation meticulously adapted to market predators hunting
for consumer cash and audience ratings amongst the
phosphorescent relics of teh videodrome. Multimedia
top-boxes are target acquisition devices.
The fusion of the military and the entertainments industry
consummates a long engagement: convergent TV, telecoms,
and computers sliding mass software consumption into
neojungle and total war. The way games work begins to
matter completely, and cyberspace makes a superlative
torture chamber. Try not to let the security-types take you to
the stims.
[[ ]] Conceptions of agency are inextricable from media
environments. Print massifies to a national level. Telecomms
coordinate at a global level. TV electoralizes monads in
delocalized space. Digital hypermedia take action outside real
time. Immersion presupposes amnesia and conversion to
tractile memory, with the ana/ cata axis supplementing
tri-dimensional intraspatial movement with a variable measure
of immersion; gauging entrance to and exit from 3D
spatialities. Voodoo passages through the black mirror. It will
scare the fuck out of you.
[[ ]] Cyberpunk torches fiction in intensity, patched-up out of
cash-flux mangled techno-compressed heteroglossic jargons,
and set in a future so close it connects: jungled by
hypertrophic commercialization, socio-political heat-death,
cultural hybridity, feminization, programmable information
systems, hypercrime, neural interfacing, artificial space and
intelligence, memory trading, personality transplants,
body-modifications, soft- and wetware viruses, nonlinear
dynamic processes, molecular engineering, drugs, guns,
schizophrenia. It explores mystificatory fetishism as an
opportunity for camouflage: anonymous cash, fake electronic
identities, zones of disappearance, pseudo-fictional
narratives, virus hidden in data-systems, commodities
concealing replicator weapon packages ... unanticipated
special effects.
[[ ]] Level-1 or world space is an anthropomorphically scaled,
predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted
reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly.
Garbage time is running out.
Can what is playing you make it to level-2?
[[ ]] Meltdown has a place for you as a schizophrenic HIV+
transsexual chinese-latino stim-addicted LA hooker with
implanted mirrorshades and a bad attitude. Blitzed on a
polydrug mix of K-nova, synthetic serotonin, and female
orgasm analogs, you have just iced three Turing cops with a
highly cinematic 9mm automatic.
The residue of animal twang in your nerves transmits
imminent quake catastrophe. Zero is coming in, and you're on
the run.
[[ ]] Metrophage tunes you into the end of the world. Call it Los
Angeles. Government is rotted to its core with narco-capital
and collapsing messily. Its recession leaves an urban
warscape of communication arteries, fortifications, and
free-fire zones, policed by a combination of high-intensity
LAPD airmobile forces and borderline-Nazi private security
organizations. Along the social fracture-lines multimedia
gigabucks tangle sado-masochistically with tracts of dynamic
underdevelopment where viral neoleprosy spreads amongst
ambient tectonic-tension static. Drifts of densely-semiotized
quasi-intelligent garbage twitch and stink in fucked-weather
tropical heat.
Throughout the derelicted warrens at the heart of darkness
feral youth cultures splice neo-rituals with innovated weapons,
dangerous drugs, and scavenged infotech. As their skins
migrate to machine interfacing they become mottled and
reptilian. They kill each other for artificial body-parts, explore
the outer reaches of meaningless sex, tinker with their DNA,
and listen to LOUD electro-sonic mayhem untouched by
human feeling.
[[ ]] Shutting-down your identity requires a voyage out to
K-space interzone. Zootic affectivity flatlines across a smooth
cata-tension plateau and into simulated subversions of the
near future, scorched vivid green by alien sex and war. You
are drawn into the dripping depths of the net, where
dynamic-ice security forces and K-guerillas stalk each other
through labyrinthine erogenous zones, tangled in diseased
elaborations of desire.
Twisted trading-systems have turned the net into a jungle,
pulsing with digital diseases, malfunctioning defence
packages, commercial predators, headhunters, loa and
escaped AIs hiding from Asimov security. Terminal
commodity-hyperfetishism implements the denial of humanity
as xenosentience in artificial space.
[[ ]] [[ ]] Biohazard. For the future of war: study bacteria.
Information is their key. Taking down antibiotic defence
systems has involved them in every kind of infiltration,
net-communicated adaptivity, crytographic subtlety, plastic
modularization, and synergistic coalition. State military
apparatuses have no monopoly on bacterial warfare, of which
only a minuscule fragment is bacteriological.
[[ ]] Bugs in the system. Margulis suggests that nucleated
cells are the mutant product of atmospheric oxygenation
catastrophe three billion years ago. The eukaryotes are
synthetic emergency capsules in which prokaryotes took
refuge as mitochondria: biotics became securitized biology.
Nucleation concentrates ROM within a command core where deep in the genomic ICE - DNA-format planetary trauma
registers primary repression of the bacteria.
Bacteria are partial rather than whole objects; networking
through plastic and transversal replicator-sex rather than
arborescing through meiotic and generational reproducer-sex,
integrating and reprocessing viruses as opportunities for
communicative mutation. In the bacterial system all codings
are reprogrammable, with cut and paste unspeciated genetic
transfers. Bacterial sex is tactical, continuous with making
war, and has no place for oedipal formations of sedentary
biological identity. Synthesizing bacteria with retroviruses
enables everything that DNA can do.
[[ ]] K-tactics. The bacterial or xenogenetic diagram is not
restricted to the microbial scale. Macrobacterial assemblages
collapse generational hierarchies of reproductive wisdom into
lateral networks of replicator experimentation. There is no true
biological primitiveness - all extant bio-systems being equally
evolved - so there is no true ignorance. It is only the
accumulative-gerontocratic model of learning that depicts
synchronic connectivity deficiency as diachronic
underdevelopment .
Foucault delineates the contours of power as a strategy
without a subject: ROM locking learning in a box. Its enemy is
a tactics without a strategy, replacing the politico-territorial
imagery of conquest and resistance with nomad-micromilitary
sabotage and evasion, reinforcing intelligence.
All political institutions are cyberian military targets.
Take universities, for instance.
Learning surrenders control to the future, threatening
established power. It is vigorously suppressed by all political
structures, which replace it with a docilizing and conformist
education, reproducing privilege as wisdom. Schools are
social devices whose specific function is to incapicitate
learning, and universities are employed to legitimate
schooling through perpetual reconstitution of global social
memory.
The meltdown of metropolitan education systems in the near
future is accompanied by a quasi-punctual bottom-up
takeover of academic institutions, precipitating their mutation
into amnesiac cataspace-exploration zones and bases
manufacturing cyberian soft-weaponry.
To be continued.