Cata-
Remarks on Depth and Darkness (diagramming the abyss)
by Basilisk
Cata- , Kata- (also cat-): prefix
Down; downwards
(Catabolism, cataplexy, catalysis, cataclysm, catastrophe, catatonia,
Katabasis, etc.)
Sun rises as a tide for extinction.
THE CURSE OF SOLIDUS: Katabasis [1] or
necro-descent - as for Odysseus in his journey to the underworld (katabasis)
and Icarus' crash in his solar voyage - is the question of
Depth and the economy of abyss, chasm or pit. Cosmo-logical economy of
solidity and grund [2]
(transcendence, organization, energy domesticating, cosmology, Genesis Project)
try to set all these through spatial reasoning and survival economies, namely,
the question of horizon and boundary, the question of solid and void not in
their singularity or their sum (totality) or even their binary distance or
polarity but their affordance [3]
in a panorama similar to what J. J. Gibson discussed in his eco-cognitive works:
trans-valuation and ascription of all descents and collapses (morally,
libidinal, bodily, etc.) through the eco-nomical ground of affordance to
Ana- or ascension [4]
or the other way around, all throughout the con-solidating capacity of surfaces
of all types to each other; that is to say, installing the economical nexuses
based on affordance (the network of affordabilities of each system not only
toward itself but also its environment, and vice versa.) between or among
systems or horizons. The logic of negativity, dichotomous systems or polarities
are merely the conspicuous symptoms of affordance through which survival economy
invests its nexuses and horizons; the stratified manifolds and advanced
organizations are the main representations of this economy. The ascription of
kata- to ana- or void to solid (trans-valuation through affordance) is not
installed, conducted or referentialized through the binary distances, the logics
of the negative, diametric discourses of difference, or trans-Substantiation of
negationconcealed in the critique of Anwesenheit,
tightly bound to some of the deconstructionist investigations examining this
ascription in the most artless ways; affordance or the eco-logic dwelling /
accommodating ground (the terrenusof Survival
Economy) is the pedestal on which this parsimonious
ascriptionis erected, and necessitated (not merely legitimated) as more
than an economical connexion of polar structures but a process that traverses
and probes the affordance space of all circum-polar and diametric charges or
assemblages, enmeshing a capacity or a representation of the
available or more accurately, raum-able
[5] space (fitting for survival) which is installed as a dwelling /
accommodating horizon and a survival network (with its all accommodating
systems), so determined, eco-nomical and so qualitatively promising that
welcoming its modi vivendi
and political accommodation is obligatory, being rendered as its nexuses is
inevitable; this inescapable capacity is a raum for
all charges, a dwelling / accommodating system or a network of niches that does
not end at its borderline but starts from the brink; neighboring (effectuating
the architectonic forces of affordance) is its function and provoking to
perform its capacity (survival) to no end, is its pitiless politics.
Ascriptions are at the same time the commodities and exchange processes floating
as colloidal matter - whose project is expanding the interfaces of solid with
liquid to make a military machine, a dynamic fertilizer and an integrated
accumulation (but running disintegratedly) of solid, extensively satisfying
Survival Economy and grund- on the hydraulic
commerce of survival economy working as both the reservoir and modulated(-ing)
ground of affordance. The spatial economy of 'solid and void' seeks to ascribe
all descents to a surface (or a network of surfaces) which is common between
hole and its solid part, that which is nothing but a medium of solid and not
only a medium but also (and mainly) the work-ground of
affordancethrough which solid industry goes all through the perpetual
transformations of signified solids to the signifying and con-solidating
processes managing to strengthen and fortify the grund
by engineering it as a plenumunder constant
capacitation and not a ground involved with risky and self-destructive
mechanisms of distension, expansion, volumetric increase or propagation in
plentitude [6]. This progressive capacitation of the
ground is a marketing phenomenon that merits the attention of survival economy
and its dwelling / accommodating systems as a miracle. Surfaces bear the
attitudes of solid. Surface is a work-ground on which the domesticated energies
of ascension (anabasis, truth industry, polarity, diametric discourses, etc.)
are laid on, distributed appropriately to (a)
discriminate everything inferior (on the route of descent, kata-) using the
scales of the negative; and especially, (b)
smoothing the paths - by installing concentratory processes of hydraulic
efficiency that circulatory solid ruthlessly manipulates on the interfaces (of
solid and void, solid and liquid, solid and itself, ...) - to reach the highest
pick, the ultimate overcultivated phantasy of grund,
the desertum (de- +
serere [to join]) not as an uninhabited land but the economy of a
live-ing (both as a process and an event) exterior to life and its
interphyletic commotions, a live-ing exorcising itself (absolvere),
leaving life forever (libban,
lifian, leaving); a survival economy managed to
invent its own milieu not dependent to what it should survive from any longer:
The Hegelian Absolute (Unbedingt).
Unbedingt is at the same time a function and a
malfunction of Survival Economy. By ascribing all descents, theatrically, to a
stagewhich genetically belongs to the solid part (is it the solid face or
sur-face?) and is a work-ground of affordance that capacitates
grund, the uneconomical effluxes and mazing influxes of
collapse are translated (and slyly dissimulated) as the represented
variations and coursings of the hydraulic corrections of watershed or the other
surface modifications; this panorama is recycled back to the horizon of utility
and solid domestication ... Surfaces work as the stages of affordance (J. J.
Gibson) that makes all architectonic / capacitating modes of dwelling and
accommodating possible (dwelling in a Heiddegerian sense (wohen
and raum): raum,
niche, etc). In the sphere of solidity, evacuation (and the avatars of
holehood) is monetized as a process between investment and disinvestment of
solids through the economy of grund, a crucial joint
(articulation) in filling-in process ... to make solidity more con-solidated,
more cultivated, more overcultivated and finally deserted. This is why through
solidity, all descents (morally, libidinal, bodily, ...) are measured according
to surfaces (or face?). 'To Descend' is translated according to
Ana- (the anabatic sphere of all surface modifications) and the ground,
then, is considered as a traversal line of solid, exterior not to the scaling
and modification functions of surfaces but the despotic limits of the crust.
Thus far, Solidus exploits 'Depth' through sur-facefrom
where its stealth economy and solidity (surplus value of
solidus in circulation [7] or its circulatory
hunger) are transmitted into other surfaces, binding 'Descent' through a
profoundly platonic grid (a grid on which ex nihilo
must survive as ex solidus): I am falling into lava
but my boisterous laughter reverberates on the surfaces of the rocks, makes me a
victim of the mountain ... my wound is open but my lover pulls away the scabs to
leak it ... I shot a bullet to your spinal cord but one said the hole will heal
in time; now, you are dead ... all instances of surface philosophy or the
philosophy of grund, they continue to no end ...
philosophy discusses and counts the number of meters, Icarus did fall from the
Sun (it only cares about grundand its
metrons). But this is entirely the self-mockery of solidus, solidity and
the regime of solid and void, survival economy and its affordance; no matter how
much solidity tries but it fails to accommodate the gaseous economy of the
abysm, the occult of a chasm, the bizarreness of a hole or the wastage of energy
in descent; all evaporating Solidus through 'on, in, through, even beyond'
themselves; throwing discipline into their rectal openness, tearing all surface
modifications to shreds and at the end, introducing Genesis upon their
evaporated(ing) history(-ies): Anonymous Until Now (Incognitun
Hactenus) [8].
COLOR AS ELECTRICITY: Every descent is an incognitum
hactenus (Anonymous-until-Now). Darkness is the chromatic gradient of
depth, as depth is its tectonic anomaly, that is to say both its ultimate
unground and epidemic openness; while solidus (and solidity) ascribes the
obscene economy of Depth to the discourses of solid (mainly affordance, survival
economy and solidus-in-circulation); darkness subverts them with its own nervous
system. The question of katabasis, descent and abyss does not go through WHATs (quiddity)
- the question of origin and filiation trapped and imprisoned within survival
economy and its affordance - but conjures up 'Where'
[9] ('Where' affirms 'where?' as a question,
but is not a question itself.) or more accurately, the blackening energies and
blasphemous incantations of the lines of openness speeding the gaseous
expansions of Darkness and its epidemic on the move (openness as plague, as the
ultimate contamination and terminal alliance). Once again, experiencing Depth is
crashing into the question of color and its composition anomalies (neither
extensity nor measure), as the question of Darkness is not the question of
colorfulness, hue and color stability either, but in a more fundamental sense a
nasty chromatism (chromatism is the ungroundof
exorbitant intensities.) running with the frosty glows, sickening flares,
heat-death, neutral hue, blasted colors, defaced smoothness, alien radiations,
metallic colors, contaminated shadows, fatal impurity, luminosity, excess and
terminal swarm of intensities irrupting as Blackening energies of Depth, abyss,
( )hole or epidemic openness; to call them Blackening is for their ability to
dim the surface nexuses of survival economy, making impossible not only seeing
but also working and finally Being (a catastrophic blindness interconnecting
with the most pestilentially rich recesses of where
... blindness is a thirst for where) ... Becoming
pack emanates - also, hinting at Peace (pax) or the
underlying strategy of becoming pack - as a multiplicity germinated on
whereand its inter-dimensionality. Peace insinuates
where and inter-dimensionality so conjures up the question of depth as
the politics of affordance cataclysm, mutations and
the anonymous trans-valuations of power during the continuous paralyzation or
collapse of survival economy and
stirring / economizing metrons [10]. Peace: a
meshwork of processes strategically impairing the perfectible sphere of
affordance of surfaces through qualitative mollification, not as the sort of
making less rigid but softening by crippling metrons or extinguishing them
through the bombardment of metrons with a supererogatory dosage of metrons or
deviating back the surplus of metrons and their
circulatory machinery (as solidity, etc.) to themselves; the cold melt of
architectures at the zero-metronic life of power.
Depth is concurrently a collapse and an incognitum hactenus
(Anonymous-until-Now); these two are not the same; they are both parts of the
nervous system of where or unground whose openness
renders experience(experiencing depth, etc.) a
pestilential laceration made by the two-edged blade of openness (being
open and being lacerated and laid open
[11]), a blade whose two edges (the one in front of you and the other)
slashing you and the outside; this is not the anatomical laceration with its
dissecting level of analysis or the one Ceronetti, Italian poet and writer,
considers as the "hands of light" [12] searching the
innards so innocently ana-tomistic and so empirically sweet - the hierarchical
cut (is the second cut the deepest?). Openness of the unground makes
experience (experience is a plague) inevitable and imperfectible; then in
the same way, experiencing 'depth' interconnects with openness and its
lacerations, of all kinds (descents, collapses, wounds, solar crashes, etc.).
Don't be an anatomist, be a butcher. Descent is not exactly the process of
experiencing depth but a process rendering 'depth' as an experience, a
laceration, a torn open wound on the side of the metallurgic affects of openness
(being open and being lacerated
and laid open), the Blade. (Unground, metallurgically and functionally,
is a blade-garden.) The expanse of darkness is imminent to depth; for depth as
an avatar of unground installs its messing and war strategies wherever it sticks
to solidus and its machinery, survival economy and its affordance; it works as
an affirmance
introducing openness (being open and opened), thus, lacerations, messing
vectors, terminal communications (contamination?), etc. to surfaces at two
levels of tactical multiplicity and strategic camouflage; one lacerating,
cracking and tearing open (being laid open: on the tactical multiplicity of
openness); the other (being open: the strategic camouflage) is simulated as an
anthropomorphic, regulated and appropriated illustration of openness always
working through boundary and the horizon of affordance (how is it possible to be
open, when you dwell and should survive in a horizon through which being open
means how much you afford?), yet it strategically probes affordance as an extra
but unconventional stratifying force (a complex overregulating line coiling
around and through the strata or surfaces to interlace them as more
organizational and stratified architectures) that leads to a kind
polymerizationat the level of highly complex and at the same time,
intense unification of con-solidating, organizational and confederating forces
instead of settling down and sedentarization. The giant but multi-architectural
organization reassembled by such a strong but sly and atypical organizing force
(being open), strategically, overexposed and laid naked before the tactical
lines of openness (being lacerated, cracked and laid open; being opened: the
blade-openness); it is easily spotted and brought to a base-communication with
the ungrounding forces, and stripped open to the contagious lines of openness
... triggering an epidemic, a plague through the nocturnal space of
affirmance, the edges of affirmation. Slashed, torn, impaled, cracked,
infected, hacked, sewn, composed, fractalized, contaminated, heterogeneously
softened and messed up through openness and affirmance, the dark reverberations
of Nietzschean affirmation as a pure war out of strategies and multiplying
tactical lines is clearly audible, a monstrous and strident music composed by
the paroxysms, wrenches, proliferations and multiplicities of the lines of
openness, the epidemic, the plague. Nietzsche lies when he says, he uses a
hammer; he is a blade acolyte, a metal freak; ... or he uses a spiked hammer
whose handle is a blade? (A weapon, no one can handle it.) To this extent,
'being open to' or even the less directional atmosphere of 'being open' held by
the theistic reformists, liberal politicians or anthropomorphic desire as
more securing / fertilizingblueprints at the
advanced levels of organization engineering and management, strategically,
overexpose the organizations before the tactical lines (butchering open) of
openness (being opened), making the hunt more entertaining; leading the
organizations to thier final debacle: Butchered away and open.
Through the affirmance of depth, nothing is repelled ... even the segments of
repulsion work in mysterious ways as the augmenting equipments of
attraction to compose a labyrinth or an inter-dimensionality, a collapse
to unground, affirming all milieus. Solid is affirmed, in strategic ways, by
unground. Tragedy, this white science of purgation, is the only template (templum)
philosophy can write the world into; in an ultimate self-degradation (or a
tragic self-punishment) and at the same time, a landscape of self-importance
(Every breath, philosophy respires is a self-advertisement.), philosophy
convicts itself in the court of domestication and declares total purgation (as
of abolishment) as its destiny or punishment; not only its own destiny but also
the doomsday of solid, masculinity and logic to slyly, prepare a White
immaculate end for itself, a deliverance in which it rests
securedforever; but never knowing, the unground on which they (solidity
and its offspring) have germinated, keeps them alive through the interphyletic
labyrinth of affirmance for a collapse into the dimensionality wreckage of an
unimaginable mess; through which one is rent open by laughter; this is the way
openness hunts
[13]. Before this mess, virulent laughter is the only
intellectual reaction one can submerge to. Insofar, depth hunts solid as the
base-fabric of its mess engineering as solid is potentially a stock for mess ...
its blind architecture always invests security leaks
(processes of openness) by means of the compositional lines, it employs to
transform solidifying forces to the architectonic ones. Composition (as of
composition of solid and void), even as a band (a band of composers?) of the
appropriating processes of inclusion and exclusion, is strategically an
affirmation of the contagious lines of openness, a tide to communication; it is
a prerequisite workspace for all heterogeneous and
qualitative softening processes smudging the composition to zero-distance
composition of solid and void. This is why all architectures, as the
appropriated compositions, are the mess incubators, survival economy and
solidity put in their services in the comical ways. Architectures are the
self-exhuming entities. Depth infests solid; it does not represent the absolute
of the solid-purged void but traverses the corpse of solidus. There is no
exaggeration, if it is said that depth as an experience is a
becoming chthonic. Thus far, descent - among the heterogeneous softening
processes and composing lines at work through Depth - draws the trajectories of
an auto-collapsing architecture whose segments of its trace
(vestigium) are not manifested through
interchangeability of the subordinate regimes of signs (as in disappearance,
elimination, etc.) in which each segment constructs a zone of low resistance
playing the role of a passing gateway disintensifying all approaching
excitations in the name of a stratified disappearance; a luminous motion whose
history of disappearance is not only stratified, modernized and brought to
effect through segmentarity of directional movement (a line of movement which by
the means of its disappearing tail, as it goes forward, can manage to print its
trajectory, designs its history and plans its existence) but also creates a
printless step (gradus sine vestigio) of the same
genus which the State warmachines leave behind as they travel around, a step, a
trace which tends to disappear or become invisible. The history of traces (vestigium)
is all military. The State warmachines can sniff out such printless or fading
steps and traces by chasing the same economical architecture of disappearing
signs, they use for their own locomotion during escape, ambush, attack and
survival. This is exactly the regime of disappearance, through which the State
and its warmachines harvest their desired
invisibility. If one tries to disappear the traces
or creating printless steps or leaving behind a disappearing line of traces
(disappearing as you move); both escape and attack become impossible; one is
torn apart by the war-hounds the State has trained to sniff all disappearing
vestigiums through the economy of disappearing signs (or the signs of
disappearance?). Descent, on the contrary, installs its own guerilla methods of
printing steps and traces. The Persian guerillas of 'Baluchestan' Province (of
Iran) never tried to erase their traces; they, always, left behind excessive
lines of steps, trails, evidences and traces. Even, they drew many lines of
footprints (as the wolves in motion) on a wide area of the territory or they
wore their givehs (a light footwear which is made in
Iran) rearward (from front to rear), as if they are going to the opposite way,
they are escaping, attacking, leaving the State or lurking in ambush somewhere
near ... wandering, or dying of hunger or lost or turning against themselves ...
going to nowhere, where. They have their own tactics and strategies of exhuming
(ex + humus: ground) surfaces and ground, embracing
affordance of surfaces and engineering a labyrinthine mess out of their traces
and steps - the expanse of Anonymous until Now not
as a découpageof lines, traces, steps, movements and
compositions economized through the aesthetic of disappearance but a battlefield
only affirming disappearance as a deromocratic tactic of invisibility (what the
State finds so serviceable). They made an ultimate warfare out of traces. To
this extent, they were, above all, the artful composers and dreadful exhuming
agents. Descent is the guerilla warfare of depth. Descent as an incognitum
hactenus (Anonymous-until-Now) is evaporation; evaporation is not disappearance,
termination or departure; it is the terminal multiplicity or more accurately a
process imminent to anonymity, through which one is butchered open, but not
wiped out, then is composed as the miasmatic plagues, epidemic nights, mazing
upheaval of interfaces and seething GAS-fluxes of chthonic spaces. As Istvan
Csicsery-Ronay suggests, GAS [14]
does not follow the charm of the grotesque which the
Capitalized liquid falls into its trap. "Gases have much to offer."
(Csicsery-Ronay, Homo.stasis) [15]; however,
signifying the "escape from material gravity" (ibid) that Csicsery-Ronay
attributes to Gas is, exactly, captured by the same politico-economic empire of
the Sublime through which the grotesque assembles its grotesque domestications.
The escape line Csicsery-Ronay draws for GAS, parallel and sometimes interfused
with the appropriating process of the grotesque runs through the empire of the
Sublime. This line of escape, nevertheless, connects with the same
concrescent process of eternal progression or
deification (apotheosis) which was summarized
in Pestis Solidus [16]:
atypically and always searching for a noble one but avoiding finding it.
"All that is solid melts into air ...", this Marxian slogan repeated over and
over, takes evaporation as an inevitable process imminent to solid, but arrests
and domesticates evaporation as a punishment or revenge to solidity. Evaporation
neither as a trial whose scales are the bricks of the occidental regime of
revenge and punishment - GAS as a punishment for solid (the Marxian trial) - nor
as any kind of ascension (Every ascension is a trial.) but a terminal
multiplicity simply imminent to solid industry of grund
and survival economy as an affirming, epidemic, contagious and pestilential
unground, the darkness of compositional solid. GAS is the dark chemistry (khem)
of unground, the exhumation storm, filamenting surfaces as the frenzied lines
(bands) of a vorticity made by base-communications, contraventions, resistances
and clashes within and between the compositions of solidus
[17], composing solidus as the leviathan of war on the chthonic lines of
flight: evaporation through the artificial earth.
Depth, this pandemonium of compositions, movements and chromatism, through
which one performs the darkness. The hunger for
discovery and finding something in and through depth, even a monstrosity, is a
dramatic attempt to reach a grotesque sublimity; in depth, only blindness
awaits. 'To descend' is being kept clung to darkness. "From monster to monster,
from caterpillars to giant larvae, I kept on clinging ..."
[18]
(Henri Michaux). Descent packs the chthonic forces as a band flowing through
Anonymous-until-Now ... Anonymous-until-Now (incognitum hactenus), once again,
does not interrogate When as its principle (not
mentioning its profound disloyalty to what), nor it
does map 'now' through 'until' but it debases 'now' as an unground where 'until'
does not show a motion to the future through a chronologically representable
sphere but merely delineates a process in darkness; Anonymous-until-Now does not
map anything but diagrams an 'ungrounding' imminent to itself ... it practices
where as its unground; then, where is Now? Herein, lies the riddle (ainigma)
of 'modern' and 'contemporary' as the communicative lines with 'now'; that
'modern' and 'contemporary' conjure up where, both
as unground and the stratified questioning 'where?'. They are the twists of
darkness and the instances of unground.
What is the so-called 'depth of thought', then?
Through depth, the solid is plagued and proliferated (a fibroproliferative
mess [19]); the separating surfaces - which
compartmentalized void from solid and brought them into an authoritative
affordance - are turned into a black waste of a necrotized tissue losing all its
concentrating, connective and transmitting economy and nexuses; mutating to an
omnivorous machine, an agent of unground (a security leak), both scars itself
excessively (fibroproliferates) and betrays the solid, surrendering the solid to
the pervading darkness (openness): A total mess. In darkness, surfaces are
introduced to openness; instead of translocations, displacements and slippages
of surfaces, only where proliferates, in its fully
unquestionable unground which makes the 'no-where' partly a representation and
partly a journey-line through the darkness. Surfaces blacken the solid through
the molecular delirium of compositions and are blackened in openness.
ANONYMOUS UNTIL NOW: So far, there are several machineries that mutate to
each other but they are not necessarily equal: the depth of Jungle mutates to
the darkness of a terminal solarization working with an utterly alien chromatism
(the green radiations of jungle messing up color through the
vermiculation of intensities which makes each step a frantic tide to
Anonymous-until-Now, an exit to incognitum hactenus)
which is in a sense flat but devoid of surjective or uniform projections ...
then jungle composes its own meso-plex architecture which appallingly has no
corner (Corner is an architectural terror germinated on the anthropomorphic
thought. [20]) as if they have de-based (but not
terminated) under the infinite movements of the surfaces of a composition
through the gradient of another composition - without being configured as a
sedimentary process or simply an immixing mechanism - which operates as an
ungrounding (exhuming and not removing dimensionality) or as a darkening
force triggered by the cataclysmic frictions, distributions, anonymous ruptures
and metamorphoses multi-functioning at the level of the intercallary events.
Jungle retains its compositional vermiculation by undergoing the non-legalized
process of exhumation [21], or ungrounding through the
proliferation of surfaces within each other, which according to the
anthropomorphic (and especially the White) level of analysis is basically
criminal (exhumation is all criminal.); and jungle is the mess diagram of such a
base-criminality which through the anonymous ruptures, folds, compositions,
inter-dimensionalities and dimensionality wreckages, is unearthing (artificial
earthing) all surface modifications, the stratified events and the facial
machines of affordance through the unground of Anonymous-until-Now: Africa
unearths. Exhumation (even as disinterring or digging up [the dead?]) is not a
contemporizing or a cold and inhuman modernizing operation over the things
grounded (the dead?) but it is a process introducing qualitative collapse into
surfaces and the facial affordances (or the stratified events) to crack them
open not on the politico-economic chronosphere of Now but
now as where(and its labyrinths: artificial
earth, strategy, etc.), the ungrounded(ing) depth. Jungle or the so-called
verdant inferno charts the obscenity of such exhuming diagrams. It affirms all
modes of dwelling and being through exhumation (becoming
infected by unground) to such an extent that being
is not only nowhere, as Bataille remarks, but also a
mess convoluted by ex-humation: the corpse of humus
(ground)
Unground and its imminent darkness come in a line with Druj-
[22]
(Mother of Abominations), the ancient Persian smoke who is feminine; considered
as the source of all planetary and cosmic pollutions. Druj- from Sanskrit
druhmeans "to Blacken" is translated as the Persian word for 'lie, deceit
and strategy'. She is the blackening Mother who ruthlessly opens up (epidemic
lines, contaminations, contagious machineries, alliances, etc.) ... through a
strategic epidemic which is nothing but the ungrounding depths of openness,
openness as the plague. She is open to everything to such an extent that
opennessis nothing but a hunt and her main demonic feature in Vendidad or
the Zoroastrians' Book of the law against demon (anti-Druj laws). Touched by
openness or infected by Druj- who is a GAS, the thing is blackened out and
exhumed. Ungrounded through openness (call it Druj-), the scales and all
articulations which effectuate the trans-forming processes (of inter-face
economy) based on affordance proliferate not only on a cancerous level but
through the self-scaring catastrophe of fibrosis (fibroproliferation:
vermiculation and fibroproliferation always result a terminal softness, making
compositions impossible to be disentangled.); the affordable transformations are
recomposed as the affirmative lines with the diverse configurations enmeshing a
space in which attraction (on wasteful bonds and in the absence of the forces
determined by the oscillation of interfaces) becomes the main mazing function at
the molecular level. This mazing function brings the signifying dynamisms to a
further debasement that is to say, an animorphic course of speed (mutation) on
which the compositions are, at the same and one time, uprooted (and ungrounded)
and recomposed (or if one prefers are opened) according to its differential
rates of speed; mutation [23] holds nothing to carry (referre),
direct (taxis), deposit (alluvium)
or install the nexuses specialized for managing transformations as
con-form-ation and dynamic survival (the pseudo-fluxes of survival economy)
through affordance. Mutation is the ungrounded transformation germinated on the
continuity at molecular level and the pestilential bonds of epidemic openness.
Descent takes mutation as its particular speed diagrams; then, through the
pandemonium of depth, the thing is not lost but becomes a mutant, a
progressively opening composition with anonymous rates of speed. Descent,
openness, depth, unground and non-affordance-based mutation, all cipher (every
cipher is a silence composed by the waves and motion on the virtual surfaces of
Zero.) the originating and con-solidating processes through Anonymous-until-Now;
rendering off the metronichorizon of Genesis. This
is why Druj- is the 'lie or the blackening force' in Persian; since, by
necrotizing the Genesis Project of the Thing, then, its survival economy, the
thing is rendered off to the 'anonymous' diagrams of intensities or openness
mechanisms, to its cryptogenic night; for the entire anthropomorphic thought the
thing ungrounded by such plagues is something blotted out, a lie, a vermin,
wildly sticky like a dungheap or a globe of semen on the T-shirt people try to
avoid and so blackened that only welcomes blindness. The THING with an
ungrounded genesis is a horror-virus; it has been the nebulous subject of
numerous non-transcendental hunts for an immodest vocabulary (a call for
summoning): metrophage, videodrome, cadaver-feti, soft machine, nihilanth,
mist-crawler,resident evil, etc. The 'blackening force' of Druj- madly glows as
the 'reality mixed with solid' reeking up in the depths of epidemic Openness:
darkness. Evaporation (evaporating and being evaporated) into Druj- (lie, and
Blackening agents) is just what should be called the economy of Abyss, the
plastic spirit of darkness and epidemic openness, all traversing through 'Kata-'
as its machineries.
The THING with an ungrounded genesis is the plague of 'Anonymous until Now';
it is only experienced as a laceration, a wound or an irreproachable disease
'imminent' to everything takes its gentle touch, the touch of
incognitum hactenus or Anonymous-until-Now: it is the infernal core of
the experience itself, the
Drujih (Avestan adjective for Druj-) affect. Depth and Druj. Abyss is
nonhumanly sexual.
"She no longer knows where to begin: singing, burning,
abolishing, liquidating, flowing, gushing; so she does it almost all at
once in moist, glowing disarray. What is she thinking this very instant?"
[24]
(Helene Cixous, The Book of Promethea)
... where.
A PLAGUE (UN)NAMED KATA-: It takes its flight from my body, yet in this sense
flight is a crash-landing, an implosion, a katabasis, a cataflight. To arrest
Kata- as 'de- + scandere'
(negative climb) is an archaic political economy rising canonically from the
sphere of solidity (State of solid and void), the affordance of survival
economy, the liveware [25], its Genesis Project,
Gestaltungen and form-ation. However, Kata- shows no negation, no
positive position, no movement in any form, no trans, it radiates and scorches
like the nuclear catastrophe of the sun but not as an spectacle...it is
where silence is mutated to cold and then to a noise with no sonar wave.
It is the sound of Druj- who rushes (descends) from the north mountains as a
fly, as a whirring machine ... "with knees and tail sticking out, droning
without end, and like unto the foulest khrafstras(Avestan
word for swarms and scavengers)" (Vendidad) [26];
then, what kind of music does she oviposit? Rushing to spread the contamination
of the epidemic; on the other hand buzzing like a bullet, Druj- (and its
avatars) is experienced as an ultimate druj- (lie), the Unreal ... as a bullet,
a prosthesis out of metal, that is shot just for being experienced. But it has
dissipated its feminine epidemic (Dever
[27]) long before, both from within and from without. This is the
strategy of kata- which does not oppose to Ana-, it possesses Ana-, translates
itself as its tactical data (anabasis), infiltrating it, investing security
holes all over the solidus core of Ana-, making it a good
meal [28] and devours it. This is why when Ana-
bears, carries and climbs the Unbedingt (the
Hegelian Absolute) through affordance of surfaces, survival economy and
institutionalizing itself on the compositionsof
solids and voids which make its locomotion possible; it translates itself as a
strategic collapse into or affirmation of the compositional depths (compositions
are the communicative zones in which solid is engineered as mess.) of Kata-, as
an auto-collapse, a total collapse. Each single step of Ana- for reaching
somewhere is nothing but germinating itself on unground, descending into the
compositions of solid and void where it becomes an strategic descent; for every
composition (of solid and void) has a progressive tendency to the implosion of
dimensions (the ungrounding forces) and proliferation of distances on Zero. Each
composition (they are necessary for the anabasis of ana-) diagrams the
communications which can be summarized as the lust toward epidemic openness, or
the strategy before which more isolation means more lacerated, brutally cracked
and laid open. Ana- maintains its progressive solidity by each movement; it
seeks to solidify itself, more and more, to purge (devoid) itself of any void
until reaching the Unbedingt or Absolute, to set
itself free (absolvere) from any composition and
contamination, to install a deserted mere-solid surface as its ground with its
own movements, transformations and economy; but solid is always under the danger
of being spotted and evaporated by the ungrounding forces (being more solid,
whether a micro or macro structure of solid, is equal to being more exposed);
then, being more solidified and finally absolute means being exposed to more and
finally the most brutal ungrounding forces. Purged and economized through the
movements on the deserts of solids, the Unbedingtbecomes
one of the most fanatic but strategic affirmations of unground, a raging
movement to unground, which is secretly non-transcendental ... where "in night
all cows are washed out black" [29], not a herd any
longer but anthropophagic mouths ... mouthfuls of green meat ... or the Persian
blue of...?
[...] "and for an instant the herd froze to absolute
silence. Striations of locked muscle cast light webs of shadow across
shoulders and legs, full capacity lungs bled oxygen into frothing blood and
in every animal brain switches clicked to action mode. Time started again
with a snap and they rocketed along the platform, swirling litter into mini
tornadoes with the wind of their passing." [30]
(Matthew Stokoe, Cows)
Kata- is not fall but a journey with the corpse of solidus; it is a darkness
who glues: Where. It has a cold chemistry, indeed. Kata-, it's all vermin.
CATADRONE: In Greece, Asia, Africa and among the Indians, the boat was an
insurgent machine carrying the materials (the matter) rotting to the core:
corpses, initiates, omens, prostitutes, outsiders, villains, plagues and total
sickness; impassionate for the liquidation of map to ocean. There is always a
delirium for a map through self-abasement. Boat is a vector of a feminine
epidemic openness with its lines of contagio and
contamination (anonymous becomings of base-participation), littering dimensions
as it sails them, entangling and scavenging them as dimensionality wreckages.
Boat diagrams the anonymous charts of becoming woman; it is a vector into
Underworld, the Whereor Tartarus - the void in the
term of corpse of solidus and not its purgation, where its threshold is metal
and the night is sprayed off in triple lines: night, night and night all over
again, no day in between, blackout...whiteout...the Nights ... an autolytic
blackness illuminated by its own metalloid decay - and back to the cultivated
lands of liveware. The night beckons ... Boat is a necrophilic machine; it
crosses dimensions, a machine for spreading the vile matter of corpse, a
dimensionality wreckage on the contagious lines of life. It does not navigate
according to a map but mutates across the desolated oceans of experience, those
oceanic milieus which never existed before (is it a touch of GAS, of anonymous
until now?) ... the oceans of vapor, of the tidal waves with the ubiquitous
steps, of the liquidated fluids, acid rains and the coastlines gone awry for
eternity. Boat, the creeping chasm, continues and runs (miscarries) the infernal
cell of corpse(s), the vowelless death; it harvests and is harvested by an
anonymous material which knows nothing of liveware, survival economy, fluvial
process, bedload, laminar flows and movement in all its forms: a prosthesis, an
affix called Cata- (Kata-) rising as the imminent
'contamination (base-communication) of solid and void' or the corpse of solidus.
Boat is a catadrone. Kata-, the prosthesis, is the Wherein
its dark (minus chromatic value) alchemy. Kata- evaporates as both
whereand the processus of experience, of communication and descent, that
is to say, it is where through which one mutates,
bleeds and opens as an outlandish laceration. However, these becomings do not
signify that something or somewhere is achieved or reached but they run as a
katabasis in the time-zero of now(anonymous until
Now or GAS) where depth is the compositional wreckage of solidus; where depth of
thought is green of jungle or Persian blue of (a) corpse ... Kata- is the
pestis cruento [31] of vision. Rush of blood on
the screen ... isn't red a gas?
Shelley Jackson's startlingly rich voyage, "I was made to extinguish myself
in the flesh of another" [32], composes itself as an
experience of depth and Kata-. It emits as the implosion sound of an
architecture triggered by a feminine epidemic openness, liquidating all maps of
the ground and its commodities via the convolutions and mazing processes of one
composition in another to engineer the abyss unfolding onto its imminent
darkness which is compositional (out of alliance, symbiosis, parasitism,
possession, etc.) and not devoid ... exhuming all sides of the panorama and
proceeding the decent to the pink-out depths of another. Proceed this voyage as
far as it will go: the meltdown of the composition, the GAS.
It is crucial to say, that Kata- excarnates spatial reasoning without being
located as a negatory or dialectical or even a relevant attack upon solidity
which incarnates every encounter as a mode of solidus-in-circulation, a line of
affordance or a fertilizer of grund; recording it
into its memory; but, it rises from the corpse of solidus from all directions,
from the core to without and without into the core, obliterating surface-core
conjunctive discourse on the one hand and solid affordance on the other;
coincidentally, introducing and infiltrating solidus into and with collapse
...Where is collapse? - It is Now. Call it
cataflight, cataplexy of laughter, catatonia, cataclysm or katabasis of a boat,
corpse or the vowelless death; there is something diabolic in the machinery of
this plague (kata-) to anything that has something of liveware or solidus and
its survival economy, a diabolic fume imminent to the maneuvering engine of
paranoia which in turn is fulminated by this infernal smoke. Allan Poe's "Come
with me into the outer night, ..." whispers the luminous gloom of a
voyage without solid, or a solidity necrotized by the cold yet mutative
chemistry of Kata-. Kata- is where the fumes of
corpus blossom. Smell it; it smells of the burnt solid.
Notes:
[1] Katabasis (in Greek) refers to the voyage into
Underworld for visiting or asking for help from the dead, in a
dangerous ritual called Nekuia referring
to everything which has been necrotized.
[2] For more discussions on solidity
(solidus-in-circulation, solidity, solid) and ground see
Pestis Solidus
[3] The term affordance
exploited here has some inconsistencies to the original term coined
by James Jerome Gibson; apart from these inconsistencies and
differences which are discussed in the text, both delineating the
same horizon: that the regulations of system communications by which
the system not only traces (demarcates, defines, maps and perceives)
itself and its environment and by which maintains its living (survival) within its environment originates from a
deeply enmeshed economic-based network of interactions, connections
and relationships in which both the system and its environment work.
This network maintains the survival of the whole by means of the
affordabilities of each system to the other that is to say, systems
work and communicate according to how much they afford; the
relationships are mapped and demarcated by affordabilities. These
affordabilities or affordances which are distributed through the
Whole actually are effectuated through boundaries and horizons.
Affordance of an organization (or a series of systems) does not only
maintain the survival of itself but also the other environmental
organizations to which it interacts. Whole brings all interactions
and communications to the horizon of affordance through which
systems in their primal objective are engineering the life and the
survival of the whole and in the next objective, their own
subsistence. Through this horizon, openness can not go further than
an affordance which maintains the survival of whole through an
economic network (survival economy). The logic of negativity and
negations are the bulky symptoms of affordance and survival economy.
Each negation is nothing but an affordance cooperating with the
affordance of whole and keeping its survival economy working.
Through this horizon of survival economy, each interaction or
dialectic of the organization with itself or the outside is
constructed on how much the system affords it or if system affords
it or not after all. However, Gibson charts the affordance through
visual perception and eco-cognitive sphere; suggesting that
affordance takes surfaces of all kinds (occulted, internalized,
abstract, ..., coiled surfaces) as its work-ground.
[4] Ascension (Anabasis):
the appropriated and concentratory processes of rise, erection,
ontogenesis and finally, above all, Originating or configuration
through Genesis Project, surviving and dwelling through Survival
Economy.
[5] For following the dwelling / accommodating
traits of raum (room) and horizon, see Building
Dwelling Thinking in 'Poetry, Language, Thought',
Martin Heidegger, translated by Albert Hofstadter, Harper Colophon
Books, New York, 1971
[6] This capacitation is both qualitative and
dimensional. On the dimensional side, capacitation is not developed
by working on the scales of dimensions or more precisely, the
quantifiable measures but the dimensions themselves or in another
sense, the organization of the dimensions is reconfigured to the
point which ends in a qualitative change in the whole structure and
architecture. For more details on this reconfiguration, see:
Pestis Solidus
[7] On 'Solidus-in-Circulation', see:
Pestis Solidus
[8] On 'Anonymous-until-Now', see:
Pestis Solidus
[9] On 'Where' see:
Pestis Solidus and
Acephalous Mouths
[10] On 'Metron' see:
Pestis Solidus (especially endnote 3) and
Decay
[11] On the 'strategic openness' more at the side
of being opened and Nietzschean affirmation see:
A Good Meal
[12] Ceronetti, Guido, The
Silence of the Body: materials for the study of medicine (Il
Silenzio del corpo), trans. Michael Moore, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
(New York), 1993, pp. 111-112
[13] On this strategy, see: A
Good Meal
and Decay
[14] For the delineations of GAS: see
Pestis Solidus
[15] Negarestani, R., Homo.stasis, unpublished
[16] See
Pestis Solidus
[17] For further discussions on compositions, see:
Pestis Solidus and
Acephalous Mouths
[18] Michaux, Henri, Darkness
Moves: an Henri Michaux anthology, trans. David Ball,
University of California Press, 1994, p. 91
[19] On fibroproliferation, see:
Acephalous Mouths
[20] For the first time, Freud talked about the
architectural terror of corners, as corners are the zones of
upsurges and wastes of energy, where the energy-producing crash
between the edges configures a topographic anomaly which can be
easily the host of numerous visual expressions (as in the cinematic
visualizations of corners) in higher degrees; besides, they map the
sudden deformations or twists in the contour which temporarily
disturb the familiarization process of the architecture. However,
corners because of their dependency on surfaces and facial machines
cannot go further than 'being a swamp of energies' and temporary
unfamiliarizing zones which stealthily function as the nodes passing
the circulatory con-solidating processes of the architecture.
[21] On Exhumation, see:
Pestis Solidus,
Acephalous Mouths, Coldies
Engineering
and Remarks on Exhumation (or filth
engineering)
[22] From the Sanskrit 'to blacken'; it is always
experienced as Druj- (an affix, a prosthesis) and not Druj (e.g.
Druj-Nasu: the corpse-fiend) ... it sticks as Napalm or viral-damp
(the avatars of GAS)...it sticks into everything. For the
delineations of Druj- (Mother of Abominations), see:
Pestis Solidus,
Introduction to Maraka Project and
Druj-
[23] On 'Mutation', see:
Remarks on Asiatic Peace and the rest of the articles at Cold Me
[24] Cixous, Helene,
The Book of Promethea, trans. Betsy Wing,
University of the Nebraska Press, 1991, p. 6
[25] On liveware and survival economy, see:
Pestis Solidus
[26] For more information on Vendidad, see:
Introduction to Maraka Project and
Druj-
[27] Hebrew: Plague
[28] See A Good Meal
[29] Compare with "the night in which ... all cows
are black" (Hegel)
[30] Stokoe, Matthew, Cows,
Creation Books, 1999, p. 162
[31] Alchemy of Gore: "Pestis Cruento" (Latin: to
make bloodier) ... or blindness by blood ... experiencing the
blackening electricity of the Red.
[32] Jackson, Shelley, Hagfish,
Worm, Kakapo, Conjunctions: 22, Spring 1994
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