Land - Cyberspace Anarchitecture (Architects in Cyberspace) (1995)

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\lCK LAND C Y B E R S PAC E ANAR CH ITECHTU RE AS J U NG LE-WAR - -'-. ^ -e r.e war. lt makes no sense. - :: res or cybernetics. f I a'.-s de K-microcultures use the annihi- ' on of the future as a directly contact.: : stimulation space, Zero-K sliding :-- ne during virtual nuclear winter, :',ervthing frozen in place, except along 'a,r tlines of ragged nova-jungle Pacific '" nge, simmered in continual war. Analogue transfinitude sections ntensive continuum across the smooth clane of degree-O: equatorial monotones cf channel-1 condensed from rocket-state clot-out [eruns, Zero-K functions as a synthetic problematisation module or surplus product, adding a whole peripheral spacepotency that is nothing beyond what it does, Operativity is everything. What is perceived as metaphor and f iction is camouf lage, virotechnics, descendent difference in scale. Nuclear extermination-switch discretised civilisation runs through gigadeath Jesusdreams in base-analytic melric numbers: segregating the semiotics of digit definition f rom the semantics of numerical construc- tlon, delinking digitisability from computability, nomination f rom numeration. The Empire insists that mathematrcs remain a language. Parametric striation totalises space under law. Strung out in xenofevers, jungle-war machinery forgets how to count. lt diagrams vague savageries with base-synthetic u sive numbers, assembling abstractmatter wavelengths, and opening empirioa 1y additive channels, Each variation in C glt-signal catalogues a tonal phase, srfiing plastic traits into swarms of asso:;ative frequencies. Digit-signs surplus to c nary catalogue tropical intensities, :epartrng from homogeneous magnitude, =- d resourcing cornplexion. Spatialisalion matrices are extensively .'ansfinrte or intensively hypertransfinite : : - 1ua. oosirively non-inielligible a^a:ogue or catalogue infralracts, virtual , - - es rrar a'e machinically additive 'a.ier than representationally substitutive, lc-.'atrve rather than descriptive, with no --.,apfior. They are rigorously irreducible .o media or data, since they involve :: looped continuum, autoeffectuated as a chronous involution. Journalistic-scientif ic actuality-reportage fails to scan abstract-material hyperobjects, screening out real cyberspace emergence, as it comes at us out of 'front end' netware from the near future, invading the CNS by tuning it through biofeedback to the plane of neuro-electronic consistency, The dissolution o{ subjectivity to techno-cultural data-flux and partialagent proliferation liquidises topometric ROM on to a plastic sensory-motor coordination matrix; cooking through the monumental architectures of metaphysical and logical possibility with cybernetically intensive potentials. Cyberspace exploration contacts an image-less body, Touching the black mirror, absolute destratification at Zero-K, hacks metric space and rewrites the operating system. Fluid-attritional lunglecultures smear into machinic continuation, Pulsive latitudes cross-cut metrc longitudes; counterposing intensive scale to extensive ordination weft to warp, simultaneous time-epoch to sequential lime-point, circumferential variations upon equatorial distribution to the punctual dentlty of polar intersection, horizontally parallelised sections differentiated by size and immanent thermo-tonal designation to vertically-rotated sections of transcendent geometric equivalence and arbitrary climactic signification. The sweep-lines of tropical jungle-commerce dilate as they depart from the axial nodes of polar ICE-Capital Zero-K evacuates all thickness from the cold as it collapses ICEvolumes and melts-out security glaciation. There are no temperate regions in Kspace, or laws of the jungle. Techno-commercial interaction between planet-scale oceanic-navigation and zeroenabled mathematico-monetary calcu{ation machinically singularises modernity or Sol-3 capitalism as a real individual: a geohistorical nucleotelic system. based upon regeneratively techno-propagated concentrational scale-economies, and tending to immuno-securitised self-identification as hyper-mediated global-micro-techn ic command-control. lt arms-races smooth cultural decoding to flat-schizophrenisation against episodic social recoding to hierarchical robotism and algorithmic control, coupling the meltdown of organisation into the jungle with its restoratlon as virtually totalised global order. Capital reorganisation dismantles the unified and facialised despotic head, but only in order to reunify it through transaction-security regularisation, and refacialise it as the democratised oedipal organiser of molar media identification, This geometrically condensing hyper-sovereignty opposes itself in principle to the whole of the populated earth, digitally smming and homogenising latitudinally polytoned molecular chaos as the logically co-captured specif ications of an entire extrinsically segregated dark body added subordinately to its head. Capitalisation segments the earth into a tightly-managed accumulative core surrounded by quasi-concentric bands of peripheral hot competition, binding commerce to the meta-stationary headline of white-economy initiativemonopolisation. Economic power builds itself upon axiomatised production flows canalised by consumption coding, setting bourgeois docilisation, military-industrial proletarian-production, state currency monopolisation, property rights, and transaction restraints to obstruct monetary smearing into pulsrve cash. Molecular singularities stasise into molar specialities, as smooth flow-switching space ,s overgridded with pseudo-neutral intermediation procedures, telecommunicatively virtualised and capital-coded for maximum concentrational circulation. Trends to polarisation and segregation are densely invested, decomposing intensities or synthetic continua into extensive quantities and qualitative sets, continuous funclions and discrete beings, arithmetical homogeneity and taxonom;c identity. The metric capture oI r.ricro-electronic Iluxes as incandescenI switch-densities enables descendent ascendent idealisation. lnformation
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revolution has nothing to do with ideas. Beneath thermonuclear exchange-vale lurks pacif ic war; displacing intercontinental nuke-spasm with catatonal Kspace traversed by artificial tensions from beyond the nirvana prlnciple. Reciprocal MAD destabilises itself upon a featureless interactively autogenerative megamolecule that extratotal ly outstrips the ultramodern sublime, dismantles concentrational eschatology, and depunctualises socio-historical termination across dilated time-zero continuity, K-matrix floats chatter about cities f lash-f ried by f using hydrogen, whilst escalating into intelligenic replicator-weaponry, insidious drifttactics, diff use irritation. Intensive continuity is consistent with operational catastrophes, enabling trends previously eff icient in the supercompetitivising of economic scientific macroformations to cross capital-optimum, and prolong themselves lntoea dlsorganisational phase. Replicative teletechnics triggers explosive commoditisation and shrinkage of productive apparatus, sub-capital collapse of marinal costs into microcommerce, economic decoding-smear of investment into consumption, accelerating depreciation of specialised fixed capital, pulverised co-ordination, modularisation, transfer of increasing returns {rom producer-economrc to consumer-intensif ication, insurgent enterprises, schizophrenic or head-split rush into chopped-up capital. Microtropic scale-d5lnamics feed through to subcapitalised or nanoeconomjc guerrilia commerce, populating the equatorial plane of tactility with parallel killers: neo-nomads, post-nuclear mutants, sub-polar i nf i ltrators, K-invaders, jungl ists. Nuclear haroware/software segregation vagues inlo positive-K intensities of hardefficlent so{t-subtlety, as voodoo-meshed traffic with native and feral cyberspace agencies decode consumption in Lhe direction of continual currency. Catatones complicate, darkening erraiically rather than contrastively, dissymmetrically escalating against Polar ICE-Capital becoming whiter. The corro- sion of macrotropic techonomic automatism switches modernist mega-power investment back to programmatic autonomy, bourgeois authoritarian mediocrity, middle-management, giving the law to itself by eliminating everything foreign. Anthropotechnological pseudotranscendence f inalises itself into an Azimovian eschatorobotic Jesus-productlon, technoskeletalised apocalypse facialisation.'l'll be back,' T2 Judgement Day. lllumination. Reruns draining out all stimulation into digit-crispened anti-black, bleached by the pure, revelatory white light of snowcrash absolution, as they annihilate tonal variation in hypermedia conception, reanimate the depleted-uranium claw of neo-fascism, and prepare for jungle-war, When technophobia becomes frictional it operates K-positively, as an inertial immuno-reflex folding the security datascape into a metric cyberspace reconstruction, neuromantic nuclear monomind twisted into self-apprehension, configuring its source in machinic commerce as positive techonomic nonlinearity, auto-propelled into terrestrial hypermediafusion. Cross-cumulative trends io interconnection, digitisation, and simulation plot forward the interexcitation-trajectories of electronic cash and market-oriented soflware to tneir convergence in commoditechnic intell igent-money. Timecompression infinitises. No future. , Analogue-to-digital convers,on-crisis cyber-serks control, bleeding-out strategic vision into disintegrated jungle tactics. Neo-fascist or demented-territorial ultra-capital is European to the core, intolerably touched by K-war and its deterritoriallsing pacific threat. K-war hurts security by staying too close, prolonging pulsive frequencies expressed as survival, continuously sapping its enemy as a by-product of machinic continuity, until it becomes confused with space its6lf . jungle-space. K-war material base is the production of intensities: ahorgasmically smearing revolution across extension, hyper-linking disintegrated agitations -9 I^'OJgn aOS:'aCt-Taiie '. a.l a "eC monoculture he.o,c-po ir ca :.' ,: = = 'way of imperceptibiiity f at e-,: -:- =-' and intelligenic f rict or. lre .':-:: - : ': information into descendent r g'a. -through scale, slipping be ow p'..' =-=' anthropomorphic magnitudes as . .':-- : across Zero-K, navigating catatrac.- -' dyskaryotic genic circulation and ,. 'a interoperativity. Microtropic deactl!a. -of humanity tunes il to vermin traiis: burrowing, swarming, continually mc - l varying intensively to evade discreie alteration, segmentarity, and stratal capture, stealing everything from the enemy, and learning to stick to them i. glues itself to its targets, patient and imperceptible, close enough to share their ammunition, food, and K-contagio-s CIose enough to hide upon their skin. K-jungle descent from immediate resistance to continual war transmutes the human body from a social particle into a vast smeared tract, operatively zooming hostile combatant elements tnto battlefields, hostile implements into subversion sites, hostile communications traffic into a micro-energetic web of potential viro-parts, samples, keys, catalysis soft-spots, and behaviourtracking adhesives. lt immanentises tactical intelligence to vague war upon the pacific body of machinic rescalingconsistency, decomposing signals into long-range nano-weaponry components. hypersensitive to the security-f unction ci mansize as a trap. Look what it did to Kurtz, a special forces ultra-capital mea.machine hacked and cored-out by Kvirus, touched by a dark f uture, recyc e: through hell. There is no f iction in the yungle, only difference of scale, Wintermute comes from a thermicai , desolated silent body, the end of tie river, non-identity as positive-contac:a: : abstract matter. lt has no iudgelre-. ,'. .^ Kurtz, with his superiors, wrth ar'''c::,. only a jungle war to prolong, trco .a smearing, continuity. You can t stop what can't be s:c::=l You can't touch withou: oe'n. :: -: -: l