Cut-ups provide space for the Third Mind or unconscious to speak.
If we live in a prerecorded universe, cut-ups help us take control over reality and create new meaning potentials.
There is a philosopher in the cyberfeminist movement named Sadie Plant. I recommend reading her book Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture.
Plant was Land’s partner in founding the CCRU at Warwick, though she’s often overshadowed in its historiography. Her central thesis: machines and digital technology are fundamentally feminine because they operate through the zero… absence, void, nothingness… an feminine symbol against the masculine/phallic one. She argues that weaving/textiles were the original model for computation, positioning women as proto-cybernetic beings. The primordial chaos is a productive feminine force suppressed by patriarchal hierarchical order. Machines, being non-human and chaotic, represent the return of this repressed feminine… a threat to phallic order.
While she shares Land’s accelerationism, her vision is distinctly feminist: technology will liberate women from patriarchy.
The thesis that capitalism is artificial intelligence was, is, and will be Nick’s fundamental theoretical contribution. He is correct about this and it is in this precise sense that I am a Landian.
الجسد بلا أعضاء هو في الوقت نفسه تجريد مادي، وتضاريس تفاضلية محددة بشكل ملموس والتي ليست سوى ما يتقاسمه الاختلاف بشكل فوري… هو سطح خالص، لأنه مجرد تماسك الشبكة التفاضلية، ولكنه أيضاً مصدر العمق.
— نِك لاند
In “Some Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia and Homosexuality” Freud (1922) contends that normal jealousy, though it may appear rational, is in fact deeply overdetermined.
It is compounded of grief over the loss of the loved object, a narcissistic wound, feelings of enmity toward the successful rival, and self-criticism that holds the ego accountable for its loss. Yet what distinguishes it structurally is its unconscious foundation: it has its roots in the depths of the unconscious, it harks back to the earliest stirrings of the child's affective life, and it springs from the Oedipus complex or from the sibling-rivalry of the first sexual period.
على العلاج النفسي السلام إن كان ديدن المعالجين نشر محتوى الجلسات وبهذه الطريقة…
وليس ما يقدمه من يقوم بمثل هذا النشر علاجاً نفسياً، مهما كانت المدرسة العلاجية المُدّعاة! فوجود الدافع المسبق للبحث عن ما يمكن نشره يُلَوّث الإجراء من بدايته ويمسخه لضرر بَيِّن!
The secret bookshelf of Nobel Prize winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli, full of books about eastern religion, mysticism, telepathy, psychology, and mythology.
(CERN: Wolfgang Pauli Room)
After weeks of diving into machine consciousness, cybersemiotics, cybernetics, the Ratio Club, and the CCRU, I’ve decided to do what any rational person would do and begin to build my own conspiracy board. As an added bonus, this continues down my path of bringing Mondo back.