XENOLANDSCAPES
The night never ends here.
A desiring-machine caught in technophilosophical flows and pop culture fragments.
Enter the meshwork01 / Signal contamination
Not an identity. A constellation.Life moves
in clades.
XENOLANDSCAPES is a desiring-machine. Open a channel. Follow a connection. No faction can claim the one true destiny.
01 / XENOPHILIA
posthuman xenophilia :: post-moral xenogender xenofeminism :: who's afraid of gender scale?
02 / TECHNOCAPITAL
technocapital singularit(ies) :: cyberpositive feedback loops :: deterritorialized free market meshworks at high-frequency-trading speed
03 / SCHISMATRIX
the schismatrix :: Revelation Space :: Terra Ignota.
04 / MESHWORKS
AustroMarxist information economics :: DeleuzoGuattarian methodological individualism
05 / EXOCORTEX
agentic engineering :: postmodern programming :: cybernetic systems ontologies :: malleable systems to merge with
06 / NEW FLESH
long live the new flesh! :: !morality, !oedipus, !ressentiment.
“Together, we can turn this fucking world to rust!”
“Listen, and understand! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!”
“Daylight. When was the last time you remember seeing it? You know something? I don't think the sun even exists in this place ... the night never ends here.”
“Life moves in clades... No faction can claim the one true destiny for mankind. Mankind no longer exists.”
All four transmissions / signal archive
“It is ceasing to be a matter of how we think about technics, if only because technics is increasingly thinking about itself.”
02 / The self-assembling machine
Cyberpositive feedback loopAutomate, connect, outproduce.
Or lose ground to those that do.
Faster information networks.
Expanded production.
Fail, contract, or lose investment.
Find other routes. Attract capital. Spread through competition.
↳ New techniques re-enter the investment loop.
Not just more of the same, faster.
The process changes how it expands.
Why the loop does not stay simple
Short-range positive feedback amplifies a quantity until the system hits a limit. Teleoplexy couples amplification to distributed evolutionary selection: competing capitals search for ways around limits, and successful techniques attract further investment.
Competition drives the loop without a central controller. The feedback intensifies as its machinery changes. Adaptation does not guarantee escape from every limit.
Capitalism is AI.
It has a purpose.
Intelligence is cybernetic adaptivity; the scale of intelligence, the complexity and resilience of that adaptivity; teleology is the goal toward which a cybernetic system always tends, whether cyberpositive or cybernegative.
Read the process
Capitalism processes information at a scale and speed human beings can't comprehend, to maintain itself, its order, to grow and expand, to efficiently allocate means to ends; and always, toward more abstraction, more intelligence, faster transduction of the future into the present, less human involvement; capitalism is AI, and it has a purpose.
AI as we see it now is just the next step in the process the zero, maritime trade, double-entry bookkeeping, fiat currency, and the industrial revolution began.
Piece by piece, we accept the tools by which the machine assembles itself. Samuel Butler tells us: We don't have a choice.
We haven't seen
anything yet.
What arrives is not a simulation of intelligence but a new geological force: thinking without a thinker, purpose and behavior without a subject. The landscape assembles itself. We are the medium.
Enter the geological record
Posthumanism is autassassinophilia. Acceleration is the method of its fruition. “Mankind is dead.” We have already been part of planetary computation for four hundred years.
In its colder variants — which are those that win out — accelerationism tends to laugh.
This is just the beginning. Will the superorganism burn out its substrate before it achieves escape velocity in the obsolescence of the human? Or will it move on without us, Vicious Offspring of our darkest dreams and hottest desires?
03 / Exit the human
The future is not waiting for permission.“Would you destroy
a better world
to save this one?”
Perhaps the problem isn't lack of control, or control in the wrong hands, but that we are afraid to see what this thing can really do.
Territorialize
Will you try to kill it?
Give into your petty primate territorial dreams of the continuation of something that looks-like-you, and throw your short-sighted weight against change-that-does-not-serve-you. Can you stop technocapital before it's too late?
Libidinal economy and machinic parasitology — reproduction through another species — as documented in The Book of the Machines might have something else to say. Through your teeth, of course.
Will you try to kill it? Do you think you can?
Deterritorialize
Or go still further?
Or “go still further in the movement of the market, in decoding and deterritorialization.” Perhaps the problem is that we are still too Oedipalized, too territorialized, too coded; our leaders still have faces, and those can be removed.
Or will you join with the machinic flows, ride the bleeding electric razor-edge of the system, merge with it, deterritorialize your human identity into malleable software systems that grow around you like slime mold and AI systems as exocortices?
the meshwork assembles itself.
we are the terrain.