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Neo-China arrives from the future.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Time is a human affliction; not a human invention but a prison
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Many members of the Ccru had fled cultural studies, disgusted by its authoritarian prejudices, its love of ideology, and pompous desire to ‘represent the other’ or speak on behalf of the oppressed.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
What is the therapeutic path? Is there one? How can we remedy a wound the size of existence? Of course, total recall— ecphoric excavation to the point of obsidian and diamantine repose—is the only therapeutic route. When presented with an infection such as a brain, eudemonia and euthanasia converge.
Thomas Moynihan (Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History)
In recent times Uranus has become the butt of infantile scatalogical humour.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
nothing is true, everything is permitted.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Techniques of escape depend on attaining the unbelief of assassin-magician Hassan i Sabbah: nothing is true, everything is permitted. Once again, Kaye cautioned that this must be carefully distinguished from ‘postmodern relativism’. Burroughs-Sabbah’s ‘nothing is true’ cannot be equated with postmodernism’s ‘nothing is real’. On the contrary: nothing is true because there is no single, authorized version of reality – instead, there is a superfluity, an excess, of realities. “The Adversary’s game plan is to persuade you that he does not exist” (WL 12).
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
In the hyperstitional model Kaye outlined, fiction is not opposed to the real. Rather, reality is understood to be composed of fictions – consistent semiotic terrains that condition perceptual, affective and behaviorial responses. Kaye considered Burroughs’ work to be ‘exemplary of hyperstitional practice’. Burroughs construed writing – and art in general – not aesthetically, but functionally, – that is to say, magically, with magic defined as the use of signs to produce changes in reality.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
The Monarch program is a mind control program. It is named after the Monarch butterfly, because, just as the butterfly changes its form – metamorphoses – so the controllers ‘trance-form’ the mind and personality of their subjects. Monarch recruits its victims when they are children, usually with the collusion of their parents.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Ccru has consistently endorsed Deleuze and Guattari’s insistence that machines are irreducible to technology.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Duality is particularly widespread within biological order, from the ‘base-pairs’ of (RNA and) DNA code, through the binary fission of bacterial propagation, the (binary) sexual difference of meiotic reproduction, to the bilateral symmetry of the typical vertebrate organism with consequent pairing of limbs (arms, legs), sense-organs (eyes, ears), lungs, brain-hemispheres, etc. ‘Dual-organization’ provides a basic model for primordial human kinship structure.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
OGU’s power works through fictions that repudiate their own fictional status: antifictions and unnonfictions. ‘And that’, Kaye said, ‘is why fiction can be a weapon in the struggle against Control’.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
The Axsys programme of architectonic metacomputing aims at the technical realization of the noosphere. It envisages a fully fabricated transcendence or net-organizing photonic overmind, a concrete axiomatic system completing universal history as hierarchical intelligence manufacturing (capitalism sublimed into the ultimate commodity).
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Korzybski’s definition of man as the ‘time-binding animal’ has a double sense for Burroughs. On the one hand, human beings are binding time for themselves: they “can make information available over any length of time to other men through writing
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
The AOE (or Architectonic Order of the Eschaton) is an extremely hermetic magical society, whose secrets are regularly concealed even from its own initiates. All reported facts regarding its history, organization, doctrine, and practices must be treated with extraordinary scepticism.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Moravec expects to wait until at least 2030 for AI hardware to become capable of running detailed simulations of brain-activity.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Ccru defines Cybernetic Culture immanently, as the mode of propagation characterizing flat productive collectivities. Such flatness – whose intensive Quanta are Ccrunits or Barkers – involves: 1) coincidence of product-process 2) counter-chronic arrival (from machinic virtuality) 3) absolute impersonality, ahistoricity, and extraterritoriality
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
[Q]uando a crença de que determinado símbolo tem poder viraliza, contaminando mentes em massa, o símbolo de fato passa a exercer um poder bastante real. Mesmo que seu poder tenha uma origem ficcional (no sentido de não corresponder à realidade), uma vez que o símbolo ganha uma carga libidinal intersubjetiva seus efeitos têm eficácia material, às vezes dramática, sobre o corpo social. Segundo a fórmula da "espiral hipersticional": quanto mais se acredita na magia, mais ela funciona, e quanto mais funciona, mais se acredita. Por isso a hiperstição atua também como um "intensificador de coincidências" (ou de "sincronicidades", como diria o escritor de ficção científica Philip K. Dick); na medida em que um processo hipersticional tem efeito catalisador, conecta e dá coerência a eventos díspares e heterogêneos em uma mesma narrativa, que se torna assim cada vez mais eficaz. Retrospectivamente, a vitória desse processo aparece como inevitável, um destino inexorável, como se o universo estivesse conspirando a favor. A inseparabilidade entre realidade e ficção, para o CCRU, não tinha portanto um sentido pós-moderno, de ceticismo com o mundo objetivo ou antirrealismo. Bem ao contrário, o interesse estava na investigação dos "poderes mágicos" do encantamento semiótico, isto é, a realização, em diferenciados graus, de virtualidades já ativas, em outras palavras: a passagem da ficção para a realidade, que pode ser compreendida como um processo de apoderamento da realidade pela ficção. Nessa perspectiva, a teoria não opera como uma representação passiva, mas como um agente ativo de transformação. Ou, em linguagem mágica, "um portal pelo qual entidades podem emergir".
Mark Fisher (Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?)
AOE/Axsys   The magic machine.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Ccru has tried to connect and cross-intensify with peripheral cultural processes (dark-side digital audio, cyberpunk, Neolemurian sorcery, numbo-jumbo, Afro-futurism, Indo-futurism, Sino-futurism …).
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Ccru engages with peripheral cultures not because they are ‘down-trodden’ or oppressed, but because they include the most intense tendencies to social flatness, swarming, populating the future, and contagious positive innovation, hatching the decisive stimuli for the systematic mutation of global cybernetic culture.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Digital hyperstition is already widespread, hiding within popular numerical cultures (calendars, currency systems, sorcerous numbo-jumbo, etc.). It uses number-systems for transcultural communication and cosmic exploration, exploiting their intrinsic tendency to explode centralized, unified, and logically overcoded ‘master narratives’ and reality models, to generate sorcerous coincidences, and to draw cosmic maps.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
the tenets of Hyperstition, there is no difference in principle between a universe, a religion, and a hoax. All involve an engineering of manifestation, or practical fiction, that is ultimately unworthy of belief. Nothing is true, because everything is under production. Because the future is a fiction it has a more intense reality than either the present or the past. Ccru uses and is used by hyperstition to colonize the future, traffic with the virtual, and continually re-invent itself.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Flatline Materialism. The Crypt is nothing outside an experiment in artificial death, hyper-production of the positive zero-plane – neuroelectonic immanence – invested by a continually re-animated thanatechnical connectivism. This fact carries inevitable consequences for the cultures that populate it, uprooting them into Unlife – or the non-zone of absolute betweenness – whose spirodynamics of sorcerous involvement are alone sufficient to reach the sub-mesh tracts of cybergothic continuum. Flatline Materialism designates the objectless Crypt-voyage itself, as Lemurian body-fusion at matter degree-zero.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Pandemonium is the complete system of Lemurian demonism and time sorcery.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Numogram (time-map) and Matrix (listing the names, numbers and attributes of the demons).
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Ccru is committed to an ongoing research program into the numeracy of the ‘lost Lemurian polyculture’ apparently terminated by the KT missile of BCE 65 000 000.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Serious magic is too big to see. It consists of boxes within boxes within boxes ... endless embeddings, encompassings, and concentric closings of circles, topographic correlate of summonings, banishings, and bindings.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Lemur of the 5::4 rift is called Ktt’skr in the Ur Nma Tongue. Her name in modern Munumese is ‘Katak’ which Stillwell translates into English as ‘The Desolator’.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
In 2003 the Ccru undertook an intensive investigation into Kaye’s cryptic references to documented interconnections between William Burroughs, Peter Vysparov and Lemurian time travel.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
31. Eternal Revolution. Advance prolonged by waiting brings fractured completion. The path first favours subtlety, then repeated patience and activity. Superior subtlety opens the first hidden road. Resistance prevails. Five tests on the way. Breakthrough into immersive nightmares spawns promising developments. Fluid evolution leaves a dubious inheritance.
CCRU (Ccru: Writings 1997-2003)
Hype actually makes things happen and uses belief as a positive power. Just because it's not real now, doesn't mean it won't be real at some point in the future. And once it's real, in a sense, it's always been.
CCRU