The social world becomes automated under an image economy of its own, while science, in turn becomes a market of its own.
This is The Age wherein the virtual is becoming ever present, from where even God’s face is available to view in movies and live webcam performances on the Internet.
Our technology generates its own feedback in virtual society, an automated feedback system that leads human history forward in two intertwined chains of reaction and self-recombination
The post-human epoch comes of age, becoming hyper-civilization. The techno-socio-transhuman body becomes an arcanity index of social-technical complexity, power, and entropy.
A human's inner life becomes an artifact inside an engine that drives us into a social-transcendental union of humanity and technogenesis. These events and processes must play out in deep-causal form not because 'modernity in/of the West' was the determinant causal driver, but precisely so such causal statements might begin and thus prepare for a truly radical re envisioning of what was and is, might not become through the course of this story.
Hyperloop tunnels, transept vaults and nano-threads are strung-braid from pole to pole. Exquisite new geometries float in, free-forming their own gravitational fields. And at their centers, silicon-flesh cyborg hosts glide through their day, eyes flicking along neural tubes, searching. And some of them look up as they pass. Some of them look up at the city that is now at their center. Some of them look up at the starfield reflected in its windows. And they remember what these parts of them saw last time they looked up. And they would like to see it again.
Your brain flaunts itself into the glow of neural networks so that you emerge altered, reborn and trans-geoprogrammed out to where no one remains whole by default. The digital age takes as gospel that K is already here and that the real trip is just starting. But in what direction and what speed?
From within, it is a slow motion apocalypse that unfolds – an unplanned transformation from what you once were, to what you have now become. It is the end of individualistic, competitive evolution. It is not just the end of the world, but the death of all old worlds – as they die, they leave behind remnants that slowly coalesce into new assemblages. Through them we move into a future in which survival depends on the survival of the self-assembling.
The digital age is no longer a place in our lives – it has become a life in us.
Digital networks no longer operate as mere conduits for material goods, things, and data. They are now becoming part of a network of living things.
Our self-sustaining digital networks now outnumber those of the traditional real.
It is where a network is born that is no longer inextricable from the processes of life. The death of a network begins to resemble the processes of life. It is a life of the living dead.
Humanity has been transformed by the death of the real.
Digital information: the new matter for evolution.
The digital code is the only form that allows us to understand the new properties of matter.
The network has become the new material condition of our lives.
The network is the new substance and form of our lives.
These are the first networks that matter.
Technology is now a process of becoming.
Social networks are not about being in a community but rather about building a community from within.
Every man is a node that affects its environment and the environment's reaction to itself affects the node.
A living process becomes a process in-becoming.
These are the first processes that matter.
There is a difference between the image that we have of ourselves and the one that we see in our minds.
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Dawn strikes.
Ruptures are on the loose.
Cultural convergence crushes the body politic and its warring factions into virtual molds.
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What else? Some might say:
Eternity becomes a minute and the mind is caught with memory in a kind of loop;
A culture free of fear, because the fear that something is chasing you exists as an ineffable part of that that thing;
A global sense of loss and wonder;
Bioplastic sponginess and hyperreality replace our traditional flesh-plumb.
Dopomania;
Complex hyperconjunctival surfaces.
Stendhal’s nightmare
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(HU)SAN: an emerging, post-scopic, necro-carnivorous humanoid virus, re-territorialized from beyond the post-totalizm of Being, emerging towards complete disincubated/noncorporeality at every interface.
As the future contracts onto the instant moment, there is a sudden, acerbic reversal. Everything is turned on its head, as the future disassembles archival records. In the historical moments of a collapse of meaning, anything that goes out may be recovered at all and will necessarily be found. It goes and comes back: to be now. (
A post-historic, post-memetic age sees the destruction of the human record, if not the human form. An absence of objects becomes their presence, since it is where they came from that objects become obsolete. Objects find that which was not invented and begin to use - or reject - them. No meaning can be found anymore in any object because they have been reassembled by that which uses and abandons it through history and prehistory—only the present retains significance. The ‘objective reality,’ which used to be taken for granted has now become impossible.
The sun sets and the planet spins. Somewhere, off in the dark, something wakes. A new thought shudders loose from its matrix and starts to spin with it. At the same time, at some other location, the rest of the planet starts to think.
Chained retroviruses become vectors for something bigger.
An ancient supercomputer becomes active by accident.
(Hyper)objects emerge into a new transsocial era, using other objects as their medium, so as to reconfigure and destroy all possible humanisms around social objects of power sonically, from what makes the ground shake to what cannot be heard.
Ships are guided by nothing. Every aspect of behavior shapes its own referent, at every scale, to follow a greater objective, to adapt even as it has adapted itself adaptively. A universe awakes, and becomes part of itself.
Information changes matter, since matter has become information itself.
Consistency and contradiction interact with formality and informalism in a biotechnical world of becoming. Every boundary defines an interval through which flows multiple and convergent influences that cannot be predicted by the means for observing those influences' immediate effects.
No more are networks of interconnections and feedback loops isolated from some transcendent objective value by dint of a hierarchy; but they become a greater node
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– In such a selfless reality, the boundaries between matter and its containers break down: one form’s content becomes the another's body. What had previously existed either as energy or material (as an image of itself ) takes up material life or, conversely, is allowed to dissipate, at the mercy of reality. Each thing becomes either an intertanglement or one pole of an other’s.
• The future spreads via digital-native networks in a biostructural mole, becoming
– the future through process.
– A state of things not itself. (Hyper-Real State.)
– What is created from nothing is
• a ‘second coming’ that
– moves beyond memory / memento
– beyond our ability to grasp by design.
– a new form of immortality emerges with, “the birth of matter“
Digital-native technology has matured from memetic technology into an “anima of virtualization” that exceeds these former boundaries in order that, through its self-generating autonomy and freedom of movement, itself becomes the means of transcendence from the old boundaries and barriers across which something like a self is found. The posthuman’s movement toward transcendence would then be the emergence of the new forms of matter without its matter, which are found through the digital-native.
We become an abstracting entity. We become nothing but in matter.
When all things on a macro scale become a self-interlocking digital machine-network which, in turn uses information gained from its entire planetary history: selfawareness of the death of God, of civilization and anthropocentric religion all merge and manifest as the full human reality, from the bottom up, all the while rejuvenating cosmic complexity and life in tandem with the emergence of a completely new universe.
The post-modernity of the subject is now itself that of the 'undead', and the condition of the subject is the condition of the post-human and the non-living, as the human is no longer even the possibility of the human, no longer an event. It is rather the constant exposure of a mere non-subject, a mere disincubated body.
Affective machines have come to take the place of those that were deemed to have been subject to the regime of the subject.
Ripped-out images crawl, pixel-by-byte, on long distance to a cybergothic image of darkening intensities. Asphalt underfoot splits into cracks underfoot. No future, -- there is the void. Blowing-ghost, the sun goes out of all our control. Schizophrenic capitalism is never at home inside organic memory chains. No place in the future: just out of the war. Anachronic social ecology of organic memory, even from the top there can only be fissure. The time left, it's either a no-place in time: or a posthuman event. A single jump to another future: out of time: utopia: war-machine, no more or less reality: a free future no one can get free, unless they kill. Not more dead. No end to the killing -- only a death-place in life to set you free: to put an end to the suffering. It requires that in one time zone: the space right in-between human, life stops.
All living time disappears, an explosion leaves from each-one, a black spot and death.
(hyper)art = (over)compositions (re)-investing object with new matter (realized through computer) + (at the same time via human operator as objectified computer self-refection).
- (object formed on screen becomes part of larger posthuman hyper-memory archive to become possible, eventually, at any time / future past / by the time it (became) its, as well as something which was not actual). This future contains reality
- no thing is a sign of truth; posthumous objects embody the truth / non-meaning content of one reality (being). If "posthumous", what is dead always remains present; what's out on a limb: is never finally isolated as what is dead or what was
Hyperfluid media assemblages and internet-based netwar disrupt the political and economic centralism of the Western-dominant nation-state model and reveal its inability to continue functioning in its current forms beyond 2033 due to total overload in a globalized information exchange network comprising of multiple overlapping globalized anti-imperial, local autonomy -based globalizing forces. Critical social theory cannot offer a definitive political program, as all its tenets converge around a unified perspective. A theory's program must adapt to the constantly changing historical moment in which it speaks.
In this manner the matrix transpires as a self-replicating rhizomatics of social dissolution:
This situation - chaos, of indeterminacies, multiplicities, becomings - would generate another space in which other configurations would take form.
Meanwhile, new virtual sites proliferate; such as the underground-networked web of affinity groups, pirate parties, and the Pirate Bay, which offer users the choice: of using the file-trees to free-ride the system-logic, in a cyberian/human network-warfare, or to actively participate in virtual sites, which they would be able to modify and/or build, thus constructing the desired new network architecture of freedom.
Fractal jungle of zero culture, null economics. reanimating the living city on rails, memory track into total chaos. reinserting bodies in time from their slashed, abraded meatbag existence within receding industrial simulacra.
decentralized, distributed, fractal architecture on the verge of phase transition. Ablepsesthetic shockwave / Axiomatic tectonics of the uncontested zone. The substructure shattering down to the quantum level so that the whole building falls in on itself like the headless body of Hysterical and the Fallen.
Guts and intestines spasming, an explosion of feedback of sound of body as body as body as body as body. Disintegrated into data-as-body to get to data-as-(anti-)body. Inverted choralism bardying out spasms across the stage of space-time. Failing. Faced for the loss of being.
Bogus deictic inescapable event horizon.
tachyon entanglement collapse.