A GOOD MEAL
A Letter to Ripper X, for his "Reincarnation,
Sciencetology, Ghosts ... a Hodgepodge of Evil", "Tears, Blood, and Booze" at
BlackPlague.org forum.
by Basilisk
The cosmos has been chocked by life. I affirm everything as I know there's
nothing for me to affirm. Nietzschean affirmation was never supposed to be
about openness in an enlightening liberating way or open-ness at all; its
blade thirsts for butchering and hunting all traces of economical ground-based
openness (as economical openness has nothing to do with closure but parsimony
and the grotesque domestications), devouring the entire survival economies
based on the political ground of 'being open' [1].
Affirmation [2] does not make you open to the
world but closes you progressively through the grotesque domestications of
economical openness, makes you more solid and economically open, more
moralized and more ideal for the boundary whose uncontrollable machinery is
based on transforming openness to affordance [3],
and loyalty to survival economy. It is not about how much you are open but how
much you afford. It buries you under the ground of survival economy and its
affordances. Being open is the ultimate trick of
affordance and the domesticated interfaces of the boundary with the
outside; it presents itself as an openness, particularly on the inevitably
secured(ing) plane of being open (being open to,
being open-minded, etc.) and not being opened.
'Being open', politically and cautiously, economizes the survival economy as
an economical, heavily but slyly appropriated sphere of affordance (J. J.
Gibson) (not referring to the restricted affordance of one or multiple systems
through communicative nexuses but the whole environment, the horizon.) "I am
open to you." means, I have the capacity to bear your investment or 'I afford
you' (this is not my conservative voice but what arises as the fundamental
noise produced by the machinery of different levels of organization and
boundary, and finally the Survival Economy); if you exceed this capacity I
will be cracked, lacerated and laid open.
However, affirmation is a 'Strategy' [4] to call
and bring an epidemic Openness which always comes with plague,
base-communication and participation, contamination and pandemic horror; it
trails your solid state, your dwelling system that is to say your
niche or Hieddegerian raum
[5] (dwelling / accommodating systems), your subsistence and survival
economy: libban, lifian.
It doesn't need to run after you, it hunts you down from where you will be (Whereness)
[6]. Openness always knows how to hunt. It (un)folds as an internal cut
from where you haven't seen before and you can't see it in the future (it is
the blindness) ... emerging and running through your body as a surgical
machine -- gaseous, odorless, with a metallic wisdom of an scalpel -- cutting
you; tearing apart, spreading and opening out molecule by molecule ... cutting
through the nonhuman depths ... crawling across your gulfs of illness and
butchering you through its rectal depths. If anatomy is cutting from up to
down to examine the body hierarchically as a transcendental dissection ...
then the katatomy [7]
of openness does not cut anatomically, it butchers everything through the pink
depths of the darkness spreading as an unground
between the molecules (yours?) ... katatomy of openness is the experience of
unground
... Openness only needs to be triggered off.
Openness is not the anthropomorphic desire of being
open but being opened, lacerated and laid
open. Openness (and being
opened) is the War, it needs strategies to work. Affirmation is a
vector to Strategy.
To become open and experiencing the chemistry of openness (Unground)
is impossible by opening yourself (a regularized desire germinated on the
maneuvering lines of boundary, horizon: horismos
and inter-strata transformations at the organizational level) but affirmable
by messing yourself up: erecting yourself as a solid and molar volume exposed
before the lethal radiations of the Sun and the rest of the killer planets
(Maraka), securing your horizon, immersing yourself deep into your immune
system, sealing yourself off from any danger, ..., going deeper into your
human hygiene, being more fruitful to Survival Economy and finally, taking
'being open' as your grotesque domestication which all mean summoning and
bringing a faceless plague and a lethal radiation and disease imminent to all
immunity systems, all boundaries, all monolithic and molar volumes ... Then it
arrives cryptogenic, as the Plague of Openness (opening and being opened at
the same time), with no trail or extension, anonymously and subtlety (Openness
is Anonymous until Now, the
incognitum hactenus [8]), as a hunter who is
an already-there, uncoats you bits by bits (the
only question could be asked is 'where does it start from; head, face, nerves
or the cavities?), eating and grinding you as vegetable and mineral; turning
you into a fine meal, into a new meat . . . a new food,
for a new earth (Deleuze).
Yazidian (the Satanists of ancient Persia) for the first time, discovered
that "when it comes to darkness, we must think
strategically." ... to affirm the Life-Satan (call it
Druj-, Malec Tavoos or Satan), we must
engage with it through a strategic communication
that is to say not by affirming positively but by strategically turning
ourselves into meals, good meals, acting as an affirming decoy to spark the
hunt, to strategically conjure up the life-Satan: be a good meal, be a decoy.
Unlike the western Satanist cults, they don't take the annihilationist evil as
their Satanist blueprint (they are not annihilationists) ... they summon the
life-Satan through the cutting edge of the Asiatic Peace (horror)
[9]. To surrender yourself to the ecstasy of Satan (the life-horror,
epidemic openness or the divine) you MUST try to purify yourself from
ugliness, participate in numerous hygiene courses, take a quotidian and in the
same degree extremely systematic and institutionalized life as your own
life-style (living), both physically and mentally attempt to be away from
defilement ... you should just try to make A Good Meal
out of yourself for the life-Satan an its Nihilesthete-Complex, you should
make a decoy out of yourself ... this way you strategically lure the
life-Satan to tear you to shreds; in this case, the intensity of life-Satan,
you experience is unthinkable ... you become an unground to all defilements,
horrors, and darkness which life-satan pours into the systems and
organizations. According to Yazidian, the Satan, always lands on those who
live and we must live (in the most
organizational aspect of this process) to affirm such a catastrophic intensity
of upheaval. It's war and we must think both strategically and pestilentially.
Now, you see the irony of the food chain which traverses not only theism, but
also liberal politics, and socio-political survivals, angelic wings, etc.
Every yang you drop in your pocket means accumulating more excitation for the
life-satan.
This is the case: you should make yourself a new fresh meal: Obelisk,
monolithus, the world tree, etc. But how can we
turn ourselves into a new food, an ultimate food for the openness emerges to
consume us as it is consumed as well not to the point of purgation but
involution of the compositional mess? (Make yourself a meal and the rest will
be done: you will be served not as a guest but a meal; you are served to be
half eaten [10] and enzymed.) Here comes the plague.
Epidemic openness devours and butchers you with an absolute intensity to such
a level at which openness loses all its meanings: wide-open, open-minded or
broad-open as the subjectively accommodated(ing), appropriated(ing) and
spatio-logical modes all unfold as the crap-words (mere commodities of
affordance) ... openness not in the sense of wide-open (fitting the docile
politicians of survival economy) but devoured-open, lacerated, being torn to
shreds, cracked and laid open, or to be precise, strategic engagement,
communion, active communication, playing as an accompaniment and
base-participation. There is nothing disturbing here but pure love of the
plague, eating you greedily since openness is being open and opened
concurrently: The god is a psychopath lover; ... is sick of love.
This is why gods take solar voyages to come to the ground and become the
dead gods. They come to open, to eat and defile, to immerse themselves in
mess. The Dead God is a god who has taken an avatar or has fallen to the
grund (the so-called chthonic [11] god). The
word 'avatar' that is the reality of chthonic communication suggests the
labyrinthine voyage of the dead god as a chthonic openness (being open and
opened) remarkably brilliant and deviously sinister.
Avatar [12]
translates itself as a chthonic or a death mask coming from the Sanskrit 'to
descend', namely, the rectal depths of darkness or the blackening energies of
fall, katabasis and descent which the gods undergo
and through which transmute to the dead gods [13].
The falling God is nothing but an openness which seeks to open and be opened,
eat and be eaten. The dead god is not the tired, abolished or doomed God but
the god(s) with its ultimate weapon of catastrophic devastations; a plague
coming on earth to make the ground an unground of a pestilential but
infernally-filled-of-love Openness, doing a secular but sacred crime: opening
itself by eating and infecting the other and opening the other by turning
itself to a corpse, a cold meat being chewed, scavenged and half-eaten away by
everything on the earth, then being exhumed for a love making: a necrophilic
mess.
In Begotten (the movie, directed by Elias
Merhige), the God cuts himself open with a razor blade, running into his
Black&White entrails; jerking, bending, twisting, coiling, convulsing,
melting, jarring and wanking off his innards while, for the first time,
death-cruising his jelly-flesh, stepping into the plateau of black matter.
After being liquidated (blooming as a corpse), a masked woman lurches out of
the shadows, inseminating herself with the semen boiled out of the God's
corpse. She gives birth to a dwarfish creature rendered through a human body
(Mutant Dead God). Mutant Dead God is imminent to
the Dead God and the God himself. The Mutant Dead God is the only solution
that God and masculinity could find to introduce themselves to the rootless
journey of becoming woman, by
becoming 'It', a mutated coldy or a cold and mutating 'He': It.
'It' insinuates the pestilential solution masculinity found (invented) to
mess up its closure, its rigidity, then, taking the flight of becoming woman,
the cataflight of epidemic openness. Only through
becoming It, masculinity and the God can transplant themselves in the
body of becoming woman as 'prosthesis', A Good
Meal' or 'it': 'He' can only affirm becoming woman
by becoming It, by becoming a prosthesis, a good
meal. Mutant Dead God is the ultimate Good Meal out of a necrophilic mess
(coldies engineering) that masculinity can undergo for wasting itself on Zero;
to be lacerated open at last; but how much semen the dead god can afford to
disseminate the 'mutant dead gods'? We could not see the mutant dead god if
the screen painted with semen to a desolated White or a luminous white
sparkling in colorless liquids ... a screen blanketed with whiteness (Call it
Moby Dick.)
Mutant dead god is not only a solution for traversing the GAS-plateau of
becoming woman (communicating with its lines of flight) but also a
cataclysmic solution for encountering the Mother of
Abominations (the mother of all becomings). Upon such an immense
femininity, becoming woman (through direct
tactical lines) for masculinity is impossible; masculinity can only affirm the
Mother of Abominations by becoming it, a cold
waste dripping from the atrophied muscles of malelessness; jamming into
it and becoming prosthesis. Mother of Abominations
is not a she-male but a she-it ... a femininity fused with the prostheses, not
merely life-support but of all sorts and kinds, a sponged unground of
it(s).
Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl
[14]
illustrates such impossibility of the straight becoming
woman on the dark journey of Zero that masculinity encounters, and what
a vividly dark illustration, what an experience ... this is exactly what
Deleuze, unfortunately, missed in becoming animal,
becoming intense, becoming imperceptible. To continue and engage
becoming woman, masculinity must use its own ground and turn it against
itself [15] through the GAS-fluxes of strategy and
terminal tactics not to the point of destruction but a mutating and
compositional mess of base-communication (an exhumed architecture over the
ruins of masculinity), exhuming it to a fibroproliferative
[16] unground that strategically affirms becoming
woman ... in becoming it one becomes
anonymous even to zero but not external to it.
The dead god is a God beyond judgment and mutant dead god is the mess
imminent to it; a good meal out of the strategies of affirmation. The ambrosia
or the food of the gods is prepared in such a diabolically possessed kitchen
with dishes tottering on heat-snuffed ovens and floor embedded with mess;
ambrosia plague (A Good Meal) is germinated through the epidemic depths of
openness. I am dusting my blood as a crust to forge an
unground through which the god is buried and then exhumed.
Openness only comes in the imperceptible recesses of infection: A faceless
love.
Notes
[1] On 'openness' (being open and opened) also see:
Cata-
[2] On 'affirmation and Nietzsche' see: Cata-
[3] On 'affordance' see: Cata-
especially endnote 3
[4] "Tactic is the talent of handling troops in war and
strategy is the art of bringing forces to the battle field." Field Marshal
Earl Wavell
[5] On raum (room) or the plenum of capacity see: Buildong Dwelling Thinking
in 'Poetry, Language, Thought', Martin Heidegger, trans. Albert Hofstadter,
Harper Colophon Books, 1971; also Cata-
at Cold Me
[6] On 'Whereness' and 'Where' see: Pestis Solidus and
Acephalous
Mouths
[7] See Cata-
[8] On Anonymous-until-Now (incognitum hactenus) see:
Cata-
and Pestis Solidus
[9] See Remarks on
Asiatic Peace
[10] See Acephalous Mouth
[11] 'Chthonic' (Greek) from Khthon
(earth) and Khthoniê (She beneath the Earth: the
Queen of the Underworld) relates to the twisted nether of the earth (katabasis
of depth) so it is mostly used as the underworld, namely, the plutonic aspects
of the earth as a lair for the gods who strategically affirm exhumation and
unground. (Khton: the teeth of the mother earth)
[12] Roger Caillois in Les jeux et les
homes (translated to English under the title of Man, Play and Game, trans. Meyer Barash, University of Illinois Press,
2001) considers Masks as "secret weapons" of total disorder, metamorphosis and
true social bonds. Now, Avatar as the chthonic or chthonic-making mask
undergoes such metamorphoses, alliances and disorders. Mask is the delirial
apparatus of 'becoming god' of a person while avatar is the opposite. Avatar
is, first of all, a mask turned inside-out; it is a defacing equipment for the
one who puts it on (it targets the host); since unlike masks, it radiates more
at and to the inside rather than outside; masks radiate madness and avatar
oozes blindness. This is why Mutant Dead God is born out of the cataclysm of
vision. Avatar, this equipment and labyrinth in the cult of the dead god, more
than being a mask is a sac into which the Dead God spills all his semen, all
his excitement for becoming chthonic; it holds the hyper-excitement of the
dead god.
[13] On 'Katabasis' see:
Cata-
[14] Hedayat, Sadegh, Blind Owl,
trans. D. P. Costello, Grove Press, 1989; or Hedayat, Sadegh, Boof-e Koor (Blind Owl), Siemorgh Publisher, Tehran
[15] On 'Exhumation' see: Acephalous Mouth
[16] On fibroproliferation of the grund
(transcendental, architectural, etc); see:
Acephalous Mouth
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