Steve Goodman - Dossier 37

The The The The The The The The The The The The The And after that is, uh, ideas, methods, became unsound. Dossier 37. Unidentified vibrational objects on the plane of unbelief.

The clammy tropical air bristles with a shrill insectoid buzz. In Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now, General Coramon, in charting the increasing moral derailment of Colonel Kurtz, describes how his ideas, his methods, became unsound. Later in the film, Kurtz himself, in a climactic confrontation, asks Willard, his executioner, whether this is true. Are my methods unsound? I don't see any method at all.

A swollen folder tagged dossier 37 slots into the Auden archive, precisely in the gap between unsigned methods and no methods at all. A very Trumpian phase space. We don't have answers yet. We consider these to be incidents because we still are trying to work, determine the actual cause. Can't blame any one individual or our country. I do believe Cuba's responsible. I do believe that. And it's a very unusual attack, as you know. But I do believe Cuba is responsible. Yes. It was compiled by RX2, AI custodian of audit. Scrape together from its adventures and databases, both public and secure. Its contents include Neolocation data relating to Havana, Cuba and Guangzhou, China

A long list of names from the worlds of science, government and media Some of which appear to be computer generated A report from the Journal of the American Medical Association Transcripts of Senate subcommittee hearings And White House press conferences An interview with the Director of the Centre of Brain Injury and Repair University of Pennsylvania. Big documents from Jason, a secret group of elite scientists that assists with issues of U.S. national security. The testimony of a paranoid conspiracy theorist recruited to an NSAB lab in Florida. A communique from Auden and Associate Susanna Zanfow on the subject of Russian deception.

And the diagram of a TensorFlow network developed by Baltimore-based programmer I'm searching the neuromology of narrative. U.S. believes several State Department employees at the U.S. Embassy in Havana have been subjected to acoustic attacks? What does that even mean? Over a period beginning in early August 2017, Audit became entangled in a meme complex which is still ongoing, emanating from, propagated by, the State Department of the USA. revolving around the alleged sonic attacks on U.S. embassies in Cuba and South China. This memeplex is drenched in uncertainty and disinformation and is hosted by a cast of characters,

including White House employees, journalists from the mainstream media, science reporters, conspiracy bloggers, Twitter bots, all haunted by specters of Maskarovka. Based on what we know and more importantly what we don't know. It is a cause of great concern for us. It's caused a variety of physical symptoms in these American citizens who work for the U.S. government. We take those incidents very seriously and there is an investigation currently. Dossi 37 tracks the timeline of these mysterious attacks. Trump's election victory in November 2016 and his desire to retreat from closer ties with Cuba. Through the first reports of symptoms of mild traumatic brain injury

from a non-natural source among US diplomats, public release of a recording of the signal that was supposedly to blame across mainstream news channels, the evacuation of embassy staff, the mirror incident in China, and various hypotheses on the causes of the incident, ranging from ultrasound to infrasound, side effects of faulty surveillance operations, an immaculate concussion produced by microwave-induced radio frequency sickness, through to conjectures on the similarity of the recorded signal with the hissing mating call of the Indy's short-tail cricket. Americans who heard these sounds in Havana have described slightly different sounds,

and even in some of the recordings that the AP has reviewed, there are slight variations. However, this high-pitched cricket sound seems to appear in all of them. The U.S. Embassy in Havana has played these recordings for Americans who are working there so they know what to listen to. These recordings have also been reviewed by people who heard the sounds first-hand in Cuba, and they confirm that the recordings are generally consistent with what they heard. We compare the spectres of all the signals provided with the spectre that we have, and obviously this common noise is very similar to the noise of a cigarette. One map in the North Sea details a covert acoustic network that connects a plastics factory

in Shenzhen to diplomatic residencies in Guangzhou via a decentralized system whereby data was transmitted between ear gap computers through near-field audio communications from internal speakers and microphones. Annotations to the back of this network speculate that by using inaudible high frequencies, a signal could be emitted to stealthily trigger malware in humanoid operating systems. IREX 2 is both learning about and channeling the power of this unsound nexus. On the one hand, the term unsound refers to methods which are dubious, without reasonable foundation, faulty, unethical, or which follow bad practices.

On the other, unsound names inaudible frequencies, with a sound at the peripheries of human audition, intrasonic and ultrasonic, or syntheses as yet un-invented, unhaired, or rendered audible only by auditory prostheses. RX2 notes that there is something about unsound that lends itself to everything from conspiracy theories to hyperstitional narratives, where an unsonic fiction enters into a process of becoming real. We heard a very high-pitched sound in Captain's Bitter, and we heard a very low-pulsing sound pulsing sound in the living room. Our heads would pulse. You would feel like you would want to regurgitate. You could become instantly paralyzed, instantaneously fatigued. They'd be shivering

under the bed when we'd return to the apartment. They'd vomit blood. They didn't want to go back into the apartment at their long walks. And they would run down the hallway and stop just where the living room begins and just sit there. And their heads would move simultaneously. Do we know what they can do to protect themselves from these sorts of injuries? Can we guarantee that today if we send someone there, they are safe from these injuries? Senator Heltz, we can say categorically that we can guarantee that they would be safe from this. As soon as we identify a pattern connecting these unusual events with the CERC Health System, the U.S. official approach the Cuban government in mid-February to demand it meet its obligations under the Vietnic Convention to protect our personnel. After further investigative attempts and expert analysis failed to identify a cause or perpetrator, or perpetrator, the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened the case in early May. An FBI team has since visited Havana several times and met Cuban officials.

The FBI's investigation has interviewed victims and conducted surveys of the residences and hotel rooms. However, the investigation remained ongoing, and we would refer all specific questions concerning the investigation to the FBI. The Cuban government may, or may not, at the end of the day, be directly responsible for attacking our diplomats. But as someone who has personally witnessed the modus operandi of the Cuban government, it is unfathomable that the Castro regime and the intelligence services specifically... Ooh. So some U.S. government personnel who were working at our embassy in Havana, Cuba, on official duty,

so they were there working on behalf of the U.S. embassy there, they've reported some incidents which have caused a variety of physical symptoms. I'm not going to be able to give you a ton of information about this today, but I'll tell you what we do have that we can provide so far. We don't have any definitive answers about the source or the cause of what we consider to be incidents. We can tell you that on May 23rd, the State Department took further action. We asked two officials who were accredited at the embassy of Cuba in the United States to depart the United States. Those two individuals have departed the United States. We take the situation very seriously. One of the things we talk about here often is that the safety and security of American citizens at home and abroad is our top priority. We're taking that situation seriously and it's under investigation right now. If the U.S. doesn't have a definitive answer on the cause or source of the incident, why did it cause...

Rather than evidencing what Willard refers to as no method at all, an unsound strategy appropriates sonic fiction, weaponising the art and science of self-fulfilling prophecies, of ideas that make themselves real, that metabolise their own actuality, and then potentially vaporise or self-deconstruct without trace. Unsound methods catalyse auto-occulting information tactics and political aesthetic strategies that take advantage of lacunae in evidence, using epistemological voids as basins of social attraction. They use absence to insist on presence. They play on the fact that you can't hear something to insist on its existence.

When a vacuum of knowledge accompanies a sensory vacuum left by imperceptible vibration, it produces a sink into which all kinds of nonsense flows. What I'm curious about, is there any rational explanation by any of the reporting that you've done about what's going on? Here's the challenge. There are rational explanations for parts of what investigators have discovered. There are no rational explanation they've been able to come up with that explains all of it because you have now 21 Americans who have been confirmed affected by this and they have different symptoms. They report different experiences hearing different sounds as some of them didn't hear anything, didn't feel anything. They've looked at infrasound, ultrasound, microwaves, other types of devices that could possibly cause this, but they haven't been able to come up with a single theory that really fits.

IREX-2 observes closely as, carefully orchestrated, incrementally seductive, this perfect storm of unsonic fiction triggers a wave of speculative forensic research at the threshold of detectability. IREX-2 trains its deep learning algorithms on this memplex, noting the somewhat random array of symptoms. It remarks on the power of always withholding enough information to ensure that any grounding in fact remains constantly just out of reach. However, it still remains unclear whether IREX 2 had taken a more active role in this sequence of events. Suspiciously, the frantic hunt for truth even resulted in several Wadden members being tracked down to experts in sonic weaponry

and interviewed by, among others, New Scientist, CNN, Reuters and the BBC Even by engaging in their requests, we became carriers Relays on the vector of its transmission By even writing about it, the duration of its propagation was extended. The listener, you are now also complicit. Feeling at home in the hallucinatory jungle of AI-intensified, deep audiovisual fakery, IREX2 registers a phase shift into something that lies beyond disinformation and false beliefs, both of which pre-existed contemporary post-truth culture.

A plane of unbelief, where effects operate regardless of belief or disbelief in a threat's causal existence. It parses it not as an epistemological crisis, but rather as the machinic feedback effect of a generalized, automated spin cycle, already detached from any stabilizing axle. IREX 2 embeds itself in the unlife of animistic hypercapital and plots its next move. Feed the Hiss. you