Constellation: Disindividuation/individuation
The way that the creative capacity of subjectivity is either diluted or intensified. Disindividuated subjects are degraded as they are functionalized for economic purposes. Individuating subjects actively self-create.
The Body Without a Face 2
Source: A Killing in Droid District by Xneon Cecil and the Little Lord (Excerpt) Cecil stood forlornly in the dark, mulling over and over to himself the lord’s instructions: “Door opens, faint, Dame comes, run out.” It was as if he hoped the mantra would dispel the growing feeling of disquiet that threatened to distract…
A Slow Ablution
Source: Movement of Whale by SevenDoors. Whale – Part I Whale burps noisily along, patter of footsteps and the stink of his brain, unhappy alliance… …Take me down to the underground… An old song, memory’s reject, the underground, wisp of bounce, uncoiled spring crawls up leg, welcome thought, welcome thought, freshening of the grey. Slide…
Proxy People
Source: I Am Sitting in a Room by Alvin Lucier Technoethics (Excerpt) I call you, but you are busy and cannot answer. I mean you cannot answer, but yet “you” can. There is a solution to the problem that we are only able to do so many things at once. And the solution is, in…
Ping Bodies, Ping Minds
Source: Space (altered version) by Ryoji Ikeda. “To the extent that memory is exteriorized, it is no longer the object of a practice, but of a consumption… the technical object is not a simple ‘tool’—it is a ‘pharmacont,’ both a cure and a poison. In the positive, it allows us to ‘know’ beyond our skin.…
Sting Game
Source: Audience Effects from The Internet Archive Sting Game (Short Story) The buttons, their black centres irises in pools of white, three hundred eyes staring into the studio lights. Blank souls, unquestioning, waiting. “Everything’s wired up, Niamh. We’re good to go.” “I know I’m fucking wired.” “We’re making a mark here. This show…” “Paudie. Tell…
The City Without Organs
Source: A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley Lobe (Excerpt) …circumstances of a post-consumer society will in time mimic the effects of Lobe on an individual pre-social transformation. Society itself becomes the embodiment of a Lobe-induced perspective. With this marriage of the internal and external, the mode of maintaining the impetus of social change…
Synaptic Storm
Source: Varieties, Binaries, and Other Assortments by Discreet Metal Machine Music Whale – Part II Standing in the centre of an ego, covered in mayhem, think someone would clean it up, down there on the pavement cigarette butts, a stream of soda winding its way, detritus of the day, early morning fog, mind and sky,…
The Body Without a Face 1
Source: O Superman by Laurie Anderson Faciliality and Pathology (Excerpt) To understand the significance of [the faciality machine], we must properly understand the register of face as “character”. The face is a double facing entity that represents a socially legible symbolism that with other faces forms the web of connections that is at the basis…
Scream Unheard
Source: Scream Unheard by Nonima Syncopation (Excerpt) Karl: I liked Martin. But he was overconfident. That was his problem. And quick to criticize. He’d jump on any bandwagon even if it was on its way off a cliff. And he did go off a cliff in the end. (Stands up. Mimes a vehicle going off…
