Wherein the Concept of “Demogorgon” Plays a Major Part
“Listen all you boards, governments, syndicates, nations of the world,
And you, powers behind what filth deals consummated in what lavatory,
To take what is not yours,
To sell out your sons forever! To sell the ground from unborn feet forever.”
-William S. Burroughs,
Last Words of Hassan Sabbah–
Fisher is dead,
Land expatriated in Shanghai,
what were they doing
Researching Cybernetics
through the Ccru?
Land wrote The Dark Enlightenment
that is synonymous with
the neo-reactionary movement
a vanguard of the alt-right,
But Fisher is on record
defending Land as more of
an insurrectionist anarchist,
to label him as a Neofascist:
Simply too reductive?
Žižek had been paraphrasing
Adam Philips,
speaking of the prospect
of self-knowledge
as that “ancient Greek
bullshit, ‘know yourself,’
and so on.”
It got me wondering about why Žižek is so popular,
why the notion of Psyche
in its ancient Greek sense,
ψυχή, as “the source of life
and consciousness,”
“the spirit or soul,”
“Spirit of the universe,”
“butterfly,” etc.,
Is considered to be so antiquated,
& such an unexamined
Target of postmodern irony;
And in what sense
the arcane scientism
of a Freud or Lacan
Is so much more epistemological,
compared to esoteric
traditions of the ancient world.
Justin Murphy on Youtube
who once interviewed Land
Has a video,
“My Lacanian Psychotherapy Session
With Eliot Rosenstock,”
author of Žižek in the Clinic
Published by Zero Books in 2019.
Rosenstock has a video
on Youtube, called
“Witchcraft,
Symbols, and Categories!
Egoism and the Absolute,”
And I began to wonder where exactly
the contradiction lied?
Why is it that so few these days
ever mention Reich,
Beyond a James DeMeo
or a Roberto Freire?
A Communist thinker steeped in psychoanalysis,
Could Žižek really avoid it, and
once you’re in there
is it not a quick hop,
Skip & a jump to the notion
of Lemurian Time War
as explicated by the Ccru,
On the hyperstitional
quality of the fiction
of William S. Burroughs?
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Free association;
The Absolute isomorphism
is Emptiness,
A prime mover that is
Pure imagination.
according to the
Book of Changes,
Earth is receptive,
Heaven is creative,
although both are
Two sides of the same coin.
It struck me that
detaching egotism from individuality
might go a long way
towards deposing the celestial
dictator of all religions
& totalitarianism, for
The schismogenesis of the Trumpian world
was that identity politics was
the reinforcement of white supremacy.
(Ed Sanders is
ancient Greek poetry
to me!)
know: Demogorgon
is a Form
of schismogenesis
that inverts “the One”
into contradicting
ideologies.
iii
The dandelion blew (ψῡ́χω)
Skies released the paratrooper
Who became consciousness
On landing within itself.
We’re in. How long has there
Been motion picture photography?
(He kept his camera wrapped
in her silk underwear,
A modern totem.)
You mean to suppress our
immanent revolution?
Play on, earth spirits of the
Third Stone from the Sun!
Cue: Hendrix,
Dale.
wide Justice,
being of fire—
never alights.
There is a will to be free
that even if neutralized
by freedom’s enemy
is always on the rise.
To turn around is to doubt
that ‘everything flows’ (πάντα ῥεῖ)
And then to see there can
be no one enduring force,
If there is to be eternity
The word camera is a doublet of chamber, both meaning in a sense a room.
A camera behind
the screen, the
screen is mistaken
For a mirror,
wherein a tape
plays on
Endless circulations
(death is
the threshold without which
there would be
No meaningful change. There
would be no such thing as meaning.
There would only be an
endless circulation
of the same).
In the depths of infinity, death is beautiful.
The problem with the Demogorgon
(a scheme that inverts
the Absolute diagram)
is in shattering primordial
Emptiness,
dark & light
are mistaken for each other
as in a mirror,
They no longer occupy that space of their natural
polarity, and hence Emptiness
can be mistaken for stuff,
and stuff
For emptiness. However Emptiness
& similarly Non-duality
are not valid
Models in the psychoanalytic,
anti-ψυχή or only Judeo-Christian
spirited “West.”
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“The West” exists
if and only if
the idea of cultural supremacy is accepted
a priori.
The neoliberal fascist intellectual movement
born of the Trump era
was primarily an ideological reinforcing
of cultural supremacy.
While this is also implicitly the idea of racial supremacy,
it explicitly takes the form of a “war of ideas,”
i.e. a reinforcing of ideological dominance.
All ideas can be refuted but can art be refuted?
The result of a successful hermeneutics
of disinformation
Will be to have created a semiotic
labyrinth of sorts,
an inscrutable maze
Of signification that leads ultimately to confusion,
anxiety, fear, and
hence the falling backwards
Into faith in the authorities,
presumably the source of instantiation
of this negative feedback loop,
the schismogenetic diagram;
This is why God
is likened to The Word
it’s a Demiurge.
“[The dominant control program]
builds its monopolistic dominion upon
the magical power of the Word:
upon programming and illusion,”
(Ccru, Lemurian Time War).
The inscrutability of information
leads to the impenetrability of
defense.
As Sun Tzu says,
“the skillful fighter puts himself into a
position which makes defeat impossible,”
(The Art of War, IV.xiv).
If the mind is inscrutable,
then only the body can be subdued.
But subdue the mind
and the body will follow
of its own accord.
-白森
