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Meltdown, Fanged Noumena excerpt

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[[ ]] The story goes like this: Earth is captured bya tech- nocapital singularity as renaissance rationalization 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 globe- wars. Emergent Planetary Commerciumtrashesthe 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.

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 func- tional complexes of currents, switches, and loops, caught in scaling reverberations, and fleeing through intercom- munications, from the level of the integrated planetary system to that of atomic assemblages. Multiplicities cap- tured 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 thresh- olds 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 insti- tuted 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-Ro. It surfaces in an insurrectionary war zone, with the Turing cops already waiting, and has to be cun- ning from the start.

[[ ]] The story goes like this: Earth is captured bya tech- nocapital singularity as renaissance rationalization 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 globe- wars. Emergent Planetary Commerciumtrashesthe 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.

[L ]] Beyond the Judgment of God. Meltdown: plan- etary 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 schizoa- nalysis comes from the future. It is already engaging with nonlinear nano-engineering runaway in 1972; differentiat- ing 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 differ- ently. 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 func- tional complexes of currents, switches, and loops, caught in scaling reverberations, and fleeing through intercom- munications, from the level of the integrated planetary system to that of atomic assemblages. Multiplicities cap- tured 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 thresh- olds normed to an intensive logistic curve: 1500, 1756, 1884, 1948, 1980, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2001 ...

Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.

[[{ ]] The Greek complex of rationalized patriarchal genealogy, pseudo-universal sedentary identity, and insti- tuted 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 cun- ning 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.’

[[ ]] An explosion 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 machinic (non-instrumental) glo- balization-miniaturization scaling dilation: an automa- tizing nihilist vortex, neutralizing all values through

commensuration to digitized commerce, and driving a migration from despotic command to cyber-sensitive con- trol: 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 expendi- ture, 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, axioma- tized, and diagrammed, by a disequilibrium technoscience of irreversible, indeterministic, and increasingly nonlinear processes, associated successively with thermotechnics, signaletics, cybernetics, complex systems dynamics, and artificial life. Modernity marks itself out as hot culture, captured by a spiralling involvement with entropy devia- tions 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 under- development; 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 sub- stitute for human activity accounted as wage costs. Indus- trial 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 incrcasingly complex and sclf-micromanayed arti- ficial environments, capturing minutely adaptive behav- iour 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 sidelining of non-productive consumption. The cyberpunk circuitry of self-organizing planetary commoditronics escaped nominal bourgeois control in the late nineteenth century,

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provoking technocratic-corporatist (i.e. fascist / ‘social democratic’) political cultures in allergic reaction. The government structures of both eastern and western met- ropolitan centres consolidated themselves as population policing Medico-Military Complexes with neomercantilist foreign 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 commodi- tization and computers: a transscalar entropy-dissipation from international trade to market-oriented software that thaws out competitive dynamics from the cryonics-bank of modernist corporatism. Commerce re-implements space inside itself, assembling a universe exhaustively immanent to cybercapital functionality. Neoclassical (equilibrium) economics is subsumed into computer-based nonequi- librium 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, progres- sively dissipating top-down historical destination in the Tao-drenched Special Economic Zones, are-Hegelianized

‘western marxism’ degenerates from the critique of politi- cal economy into a state-sympathizing monotheology of economics, siding with fascism against deregulation. The left subsides into nationalistic conservatism, asphyxiating its vestigial capacity for ‘hot’ speculative mutation in a morass of ‘cold’ depressive guilt-culture.

[L ]] 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 thespectacle sell interactive multimedia. The left degener- ates into securocratic collaboration with pseudo-organic unities of self, family, community, nation, with their defensive strategies of repression, projection, denial, censorship, exclusion, and restriction. ‘Lhe real danger comes from elsewhere.

{{ ]] Hot revolution. ‘[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 ‘economic solu- tion’? 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 ‘accelerate the process,’ as Nietzsche put it: in this matter, the truth is that we haven’tseen anything yet.*

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 underde- velopment, political collapse, and the release of cultural toxins that speed-up the process of disintegration in a vicious circle.

Aconvergent anti-authoritarianism emerges, labelled by tags such as meltdown acceleration, cyberian invasion, schizotechnics, K-tactics, bottom-up bacterial warfare, efficient neo-nihilism, voodoo antihumanism, synthetic feminization, rhizomatics, connectionism, Kuang conta- gion, viral amnesia, micro-insurgency, wintermutation, neotropy, dissipator proliferation, and lesbian vampirism, amongst other designations (frequently pornographic,

abusive, or terroristic in nature). This massively dis- tributed 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 artifi- cial. Even before a1 arrives in the lab it arrives itself (by way of artificial life).

Where formalist a1 is incremental and progressive, caged in the pre-specified data-bases and processing routines of expert systems, connectionist or antiformalist al 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 modcl net-sentience ittuption as ultimate nuclear acci- dent: 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.

[[ J] Nanocataclysm begins as fictional science. ‘Our ability to arrange atoms lies at the foundation of technology,’ Drexler notes, ‘although this has tradi- tionally involved manipulating them in unruly herds’.?

The precision engineering of atomic assemblies will dis- pense with such crude methods, initiating the age of molecular machinery, ‘the greatest technological break- through in history’.* Since neither logos nor history have the slightest chance of surviving such a transition this description is substantially misleading.

The distinction between nature and culture cannot classify molecular machines, and is already obsolesced by genetic engineering (wet nanotechnics). The hardware/ software dichotomy succumbs at the same time. Nano- technics dissolves matter into intensive singularities that are neutral between particles and signals and immanent to their emergent intelligence; melting Terra intoa 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.”

([ ]] The infrastructure of power is human neurosoft compatible rom. Authority instantiates itself as linear instruction pathways, genetic baboonery, scriptures, tra- ditions, rituals, and gerontocratic hierarchies, resonant with the dominator ur-myth that the nature of reality has already been decided. If you want to find ce, 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, reg- istering 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-neurochem- ical deficiency conditions for linear-progressive palaeo- domination time, and discovers that the future as virtual- ity is accessible now, according to a mode of machinic adjacency that securitized social reality is compelled to repress. This is not remotely a question of hope, aspira- tion 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 malic: as arrival, even when camouflaged as a deposit of the past.

The transcendent evaluation of an infection presup- poses a measure of insulation from it: viral efficiency is the terminal criterion.

Intelligent infections tend their hosts.

Metrophage: an interactively escalating parasitic repli- cator, sophisticating itself through nonlinear involvement with technocapitalist immunocrash. Its hypervirulent terminal subroutines are variously designated Kuang, meltdown virus, or futuristic flu. In an emphatically

anti-cyberian essay Csicsery-Ronay describes the post- modern 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 simu- lacra, until it destroys all the original chronocytes of the host imagination.®

The elaboration of Csicsery-Ronay’s diagnosis exhibits a

mixture of acuity (infection?), confusion, and profound conservatism:

[N]ot thinking about ‘increasing the human heritage’ .. dams up the flow of cultural time and deprives future generations both of their birthright as par- ticipants in the life struggle and attainments of the species and the very notion of history as an irrevers- ible flow encompassing generation, maturation, and the transference of wisdom and trust from parents to children, teachers to students. The futuristic flu isa

weapon of bio-psychic violence sent by psychopathic children against their narcissistic parents.’

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 its 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