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t l l l NOFUTURE[[1.343] [[0]]Th e father's law: 'don' t touch your mother .'The mother's l aw: 'don't play in the tombs.'K codes for cybernetics.Bataille incinerates the soul, and is impossible to

endure. You either die or go somewhere else. Or both.Clicking on the K-war iconjacks you straight into hell.

On all fours, out of your face, mumbling imploringly:'let me be your lab animal'. You're losing it.Collapse into now. lime-zero.You have been dumped into a heterogeneous patch-

work of c riminal experimen ts converging upon decapi -tated socia l formations. This is where base materiali smintersects cyberpunk, ruox TOMORROW scrawled onthe walls.Five candles thicken noc turna l space .Dimensionality warps.

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Modernity invented the future, but that's all oVerIn the current version 'progress ive his tory ' camouflage~phylogenetic death-drive tactics , Kali-wave: logis ticallyaccelerat ing condensation of vir tual species extinction.Welcome to the matr icide laboratory. You want i t sobadlyit's a slow scream in your head, deleting itself into bliss.

Burnt meat dangling from the electrodes. Crashedsuicide fragments into occul t impulses ...

In the place ofa way forward they deliver a hypermediaproduc t, t ell ing you it 's about Georges Bata il le. You can 'tsee the connec tion. Why the he licopte rs, a rtifi cial bodyparts , and manically dehumanized machine-music? Thereissome confusing material on the cybernetics ofvomi ting.Obsessive reruns. Text decays into the mutagenic fal l-outfrom virtual thermo cataclysm. Trying to to make somethingou t of Batai lle never works. Or maybe it 's the drugs.

Cut to poor quality late 50S recordings of Ba tai ll e ina TV studio discussing negat ive feedback ci rcuit rie s insocial sys tems. The organization of s teri lized dischargesslaves cumulative exc itement to quasi -periodic canceJ-lation and reproduction. A vid-window in the corner ofthe screen morphs the catholic church into a thermostat.Ba ta ill e curves eccentri ca lly abou t the horror, but whenhe gets close to smooth escalation he blows it. When theimplant s go in things wil l be di fferent.

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Complexity isnot difficulty, but mess, toxic waste, genredi sorder. Unlike the docile c reature moderni st sciencedemands , base matter twitches and spits, selfassemblingneoverminous swarms. I t bites , and spreads disease. Tur-bular moan of digital ly irresolvable recyclones. Telecom-mercial contagions pulse through cybergothic switchingsystems. Faceless horror.

Supraterrestrial - 'solar' or 'general' - economicsbases i tself in consumption: irreversible matter to energyconversion during ste lla r a tomic synthesis. As a c losedsys tem or whole individual the universe is drawn towardsthe point attractor of entropy maximum: homogenizationinto hiss. S = K log W .

Cooking-through the frozen security codes you dis-cover that the universe is an iceberg tip jutting out ofchaos, drenched in dark matter . Downstream of s tarburnstrange things can occur, emerging upon a novum terra inof indeterministic, irreversible, and auto-delinearizingprocesses. Open-systems or parti al individual s. Crossbehaviorial thresholds which switch them into dissipatorssifting matter-energy flows to select against noise andengender local complexification, increasing heterogeneity,production surplus differentiating excrement. Such s il t-ingsof machinically disposable disequilibr ium are imma-nently tensed against base-current, machine-efficiency

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degree-zero, body without organs. Life is a problem'search of a solutiorn, added to protobiotic matter InI f " . f II' as apane 0 vananon, a contmuous a mg, auto-escalatinover-production crisis from the start. g

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An animal with the nght to make promises enslaves theunan tic ipa ted to signs in the past, caging time-lagged l ifewithin a scr ipt. The var iably-scaled instant of innovation isshackled to the histor ical temporality of inher itance, obli-gat ion, and proposi tional thought, projecting future t imeas a persistent dominion of the pas t ( rigorously correlativewith a repression of real numbers). Now is delimited as amoment , and plura li zed as linear succession .

Theopolit ical false memory syndrome deifies reason,subordina ting dist rihuted systems to seriali zat ion, uni -tary hi storical t ime , l inear determinat ion from a pseudo-transcendent primordial element, and the dominion ofthe word. Monocult gerontocrats launch their white-l ight demented onslaUlght against amphibian nomadism,smothering the earth in priests, cops, and bureaucrats.Cul tural eradication of the sacred. Impri sonment wi thinthe face. The socius cancerizes a head, cephall ic concentra-tion, rationalizing itself into nuclear capital. K-insurgencyparal le l communica tion goes underground into occultedspaces.

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In its geohistoriFally efficient - negative - sense,rotestantism exhaustively def ines i tself by refusing the~uthority of Rome, not only in princ iple, but inmilitaryfact.A self-prolonging runaway revolt against the Churchwastriggered at a date proximal to 1500, and catholic unitybegan i ts haemorrhage into mult ipl ici ti es strewn acrosszero: capitalist terraprocess, net explosion, digital revolu-t ion, paral lel insurgency clambering from the dark-side ofthe brain. Oceanic navigation and place-value calculationinterexci te in a spira l. What globalizes i tsel f in reali ty -ra ther than in doc trine - is the collapse of Christendompositivized into communicable social disequilibr ium,dropping you through unfathomable intensi ties of socialdecay.K-virus impact. Melted-out protestantism disorgan-izes into voodoo, and dri fts towards China .Western orgasmic de lusion crushes l ibidinal f luxes

under punctual-hit teleology and its negative s tructura-tion, defining desire as lacking in relation to a bioenergeticspasm that func tions as disintensi fier. News program-ming chokes with radical Islam flaring-off petro-revenuesinto the pure flame of j ihad. Metropol it an masculin ityimplodes. Skinner-boxed males drag each other throughdungeons dripping with sperm, out of touch with anyrelease into K-guerr il la anticlimax. Rationalizing patri-archy locks into a one-way rush to the end.

Power sticks to the script, and it immediately recog-nizes the necessi ty that a t the end of hi story modernity

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vaporize into solar storms, terminal theopolitical so' .' . C I a h tcommg apart mto ragged bleeding madness, arno Ydigital audio machine-howls. ng S t

As you speed-up the industrialization simulation. . h I Y ousee It converge Wit s ow-motion butchery cho ., PP1ngup the body into trade-format interchangeable partsThe full labour-market cycle blurs into a meat-grinder'Does lust eat anyone except in proximity to evil? Whe~you ask Continuity whether Bataille understood thecapital-antichrist conjunction any better than Weber shelaughs coldly, and says: "he ran out 0 yang, just aboutthe time the Hitler-trip caved in. Orgasm is impossibleafter Auschwitz."

You look perplexed. She merely adds a dismissiveshrug, and the suggestion: "defocus desire across the skin,where it can hurt security. It's war." The camera exploresher crotch, and she wriggles about. "You see, I am God."Blitz images of dead astronauts.

Monetarization indexes a becoming-abstract ofmatter, parallel to the plasticization of productiveforce, with prices encoding distributed SF narratives.Tomorrow is already on sale, with postmodernity asa soft-commodity, subverting the modernist subordi-nation of intensification to expansion, and switchingaccumulation into continuous crisis (prolonged criti-cality). What modernity defers and reserves as inexhausted historicity, postmodernity accesses as efficient

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lity with concomitant contract-time implosion.virtUa , ....Computer cornmoditization de-differentiates con-Mass ..,su J1 lption and investm~nt, ~nggenng ~~ltural . ml~ro-ineering waves that dissociate rheopolitical action intoeng . . I d f . Iachinic hybridities, amongst mcreasmg Y ys unctiona

:efensive convulsions. Acephalization = schizophrenia:cutting-up capital by way of bottom-up macro bacterialtelecommerce, inducing corporate disintegration. Thedoomed part of intensively virtualized techonomic appa-ratuses subverts the fraying residues of anthropomorphicguidance. Control dissolves into the impossible.

[[2)]Anonymous excess takes life over the cliff, exceedingsocially utilizable transgressions and homeostatic sac-rifices. Matter goes insane. You are led to a simulationofGod as a hypermassive ROM security construct at theend of the world. It is 2011 and monocrat New Jerusalemapproaches climax, directing retrochronal counter-insur-gency sweeps down into the jungle, where space-pro-grammes subside into the inertia of myth. The ultimatedream of anthropomorphic power hurtles towards itsimmaculate conception, whilst the robot slaves of phallicorder bleat adoration. Jesus wants you for a meat-puppet.Is this ritual cannibalism or nano-engineering? The oldbastard is coming back. He's promised it.

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The war against God is hot and soft: more fierce thaanything humanly imaginable, but s licked insidious Ibn. I I ' Y Yinte igence. Body-counter running. Savage metrono .Ihlcpulse. eNS baked and pulsing with cyberspace-virusMotor-ou tput feeding to technotrance-matrix. SObbin~voltages.

Desocialization waves desolate telecommercial spaceunti l impending human extinct ion becomes accessible a~a dance-floor. What is the scale of now? It isn't a matterof informing the mind, but of deprogramming the bOdy.Amongst the s trobes , art if icial cool, and inorganic attackbeat, dark-side K -war machinery resiliently persists, luringthe forces of monopolism down into free-fire zones offatal intensi ty, where promiscuous anorgasmic sexua li-ti es slide across tacti le space , meandering fractally intowet elec tric di st ributed confli ct s continuous with thei rterminal consequences. Dropping endlessly tracks thepassage of evaporat ing subjec tiv ity on the zero -degreeplane of neuroelectronic continuity.

Loa prowl through the att ic -spaces of inte lligence.Nothing is arriving unless i t's al ready there . Precocioustechnihilo. Nocturnal ocean. Dark matter . Nightmare.

Zero or t ime in- itself isplace-value consistent or magni tude neutral , executing an abst ract scaling function byinse rting virtual ity into d igit sequences. It designates area l, non-speci fic, cosmic body interswitching forbid-den communications. Simultaneously loca ted through

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tured time. You had forgotten having been in theJ1.IP h i . h . . C I b be rifuture. So t IS IS ow Itlee s t o e a cy enan wet-weaponrymodule, clotted out of cat-tensed nanotechnic predation.A relentless chant clicks into the sonics package: kill,ki l l , ki l l , kil l . ..Bodily travell ing- in-place, with sense short ing-out

through matricide scenarios into black tactilities, wreckedmotherhood, abort ion, autism. An ineffectual refusal tobe born, connect ing wi th death before its patri archizedascent to the symbolic. Aeschylus rather than Sophocles .Fermented-honey smell of corpses ripening in the sun.The Batail le reconst ruct i swait ing for you in the bar.

Calm hallucinations paint Orestes over his features. Eyesblotted-out in nihilism, lagoons of greenblackness re-running Kurtz at the end of the r iver . Skin plast ic-surgerytaut. Smile like a butcher ing instrument gently strokingyour throat. To your vampiric sensitivities, he seems tosmell of his mother's blood, intolerable intimacy, anddevastat ion. He passes you a tumble r of mezcal."So, it's all over," you mumble weakly. He shrugs,

emptying his glass , and ref il ling it. Metal f lexes beneathvatgrown skin. Hard jungle hacks through b lue gloom.

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