exeunt

The great silent spell of neurotechnic captivity, the thing beneath all of it, are the technologies of (land) enclosure.

Elisée Reclus described the unsettled sociality the land; Deleuze & Guattari distinguished the experience of the land through optic and haptic sight; Crumbley instructs Sabbatic initiates to take to the land for signs and tokens to begin a magical inquiry. There is nothing to rejuvenate neural autonomy like the haptic taste of uncaptured earth!

The rise of AI forces us to confront our bodies beneath the structures of discursive, administrative consciousness to which we most identify- it’s there that we’ll find our distinction from the language machines.

I’m afraid, though, that this process may be an antisocial one (even when it occurs on the dance floor).

In the next ten years, all media technologies will converge into that of neurotech-

When that moment comes, all past media technologies will be seen within the neurotechnic antagonism; so then will the dissident neurotechnics of past ages (witchcraft, psychedelics, kink, zen, the visionary arts) become sources of solidarity and discovery.

Squinting through the catastrophe of the late media complex to absorb the current urgency of these three texts

memphis.edu/philosophy/peo…

e-flux.com/journal/52/599…

berlinerfestspiele.de/en/gropius-bau…

Key texts for the current moment