Attacking Outward, in All Directions
Perhaps it has always been within us, injected from its future-perfect fully networked form. It is natural. But to leave Africa we must first return to it. To change nature, shapeshift. Steal back the crown from the clown demon. Put on a mask and start dancing.
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When you are being attacked from all sides it is utterly futile to question, ruminate on, or select at what, at which angle, bearing and elevation, with what theoretical correctness, and with which method to attack -- why is anyone on the left wasting their breath at this question? Surely it is all a question of intensity. We are faced with a machine that possesses the capacity to metabolize, elicit, deflect, redirect and sink informational, mental and libidinal intensities. A machine that can, along with subliminally preformatting billions’ desires (and thus also politics), incorporate and adjust for left-wing critiques, hemorrhage a million responses, further fragment and schizophrenitize in dynamics and route its flows of resource-control around reforms. In so openly (and so cripplingly slowly) critiquing such a pervasive, monstrous, curious system the left has actively been helping Capital to increase in complexity and bridge the gap between human and machine.
The point is not to weigh theories in terms of their theoretical correctness and purity, at least not upfront -- the point is to actively inject every single possible theory/idea/critique on hand, the newer the better, into core capitalist machinery: if they are effective they are correct. Forget about white-faced epistemology: in raw informatics terms, the only way to analyze and effectively critique a dynamic, formless system is to constantly reformulate, at a pace which exceeds capital’s, or at the very least formulate a rough, cybernetic, modular and dynamic model of the system. A static, ink-has-dried critique is more than useless; such a theory is valuable only when Capital stops transmuting, i.e. when it is fucking dead.
Still more effective is no analysis at all, at least that exists representationally; sublimate theory. How do you act without analysis? Stupid question; thinking about how you will act without thinking? “Derive, c’est tout-ce que j’ai dire.” Don’t worry if it all doesn’t make sense now: connections will take place, later.
