Manifest of Cerebral Terrorism
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:53 am
Manifesto of Cerebral Terrorism
"Everywhere, always, the system is too strong: hegemonic.
Against this hegemony of the system, one can exalt the ruses of desire, practice revolutionary micrology...This does not resolve the imperious necessity of checking the system in broad daylight.
This, only terrorism can do...Theoretical violence, not truth, is the only resource left us."
-Baudrillard, Simulacra & Simulation
Part (N)one_ EXORDIUM_
Since we do not yet possess the language of a non-manifesto- or in a slightly modified sense- a non-writing that would uproot and displace the "transparent Ether" of clear, limited, and totally digestible units of communication - at any rate, we can multiply "theoretical violence".
Cerebral Terrorism is the designated realm of the annihilation of closures. For within every knowledge sphere there is always this beyond of spherical borders ( a beyond of the limits a given system invents for itself)- a beyond it must cross- and thus re-work the entire human enterprise. Towards that transgression and that re-working we discover- at the End-Age of Dialectics and metaphysics- the absolute necessity of our program.
Manifest "to make clear or obvious the eye or mind." How can we make plain, recognizable, explicit, perceptual, definite, glaring remarks on this suppressed and total revelation that- prior to all Worldly events- operates on the very logic where "thinking dies out" (Heidegger), a science of the "vanishing of the vanishing " (Hegel), in our language, irremovable Self-Occultation?
Further still, if our program consists in illuminating not only the extended angles of all disciplines- from Aesthetics to theology- ( at certain disjunctions where they interface, encode, and disseminate in a reservoir or empty set) but, moreover, illuminating that which does
not manifest, does this program then still have to order itself according the borders of a "manifest(o)"?
These questions- both active and suspended- pose themselves, write
themselves, orbiting around a closed and well-structured system of binary terms that- as we have seen- simulate authority, hiding the fact that there is no "system" (sustēma, "with"+ "set up).
What sets up the set up? Around this naive and uncritical question of origin, we nevertheless arm ourselves with a powerful insight- nothing sets up the system. Not so much a complete answer but a gap, hole, or pathway out of the thematics of scientific or philosophical schemes, themes of reason and definitive theories that currently dominate our field of inquiry.
"If the world, or anything, is supposed to have begun, then it must have begun in nothing, but in nothing — or nothing — is no beginning; for a beginning includes within itself a being, but nothing does not contain any being. Nothing is only nothing." Hegel, Science of Logic
Nothing (is) only nothing. "Alan (is) Alan" (Brine). The grid of the system and its codes here reach at pitch of total etherealization. Castrated from the foundation, center, law, nomology of an " absolute beginning", the destiny of systems, futures-pasts of man, in other words, the fate of all religions and science, float on air, (remaining inert and orderly only by a kind of "nostalgia for ideal transparency"), and pass now into their end-time or earthquake of meaning.
"Everywhere, always, the system is too strong: hegemonic.
Against this hegemony of the system, one can exalt the ruses of desire, practice revolutionary micrology...This does not resolve the imperious necessity of checking the system in broad daylight.
This, only terrorism can do...Theoretical violence, not truth, is the only resource left us."
-Baudrillard, Simulacra & Simulation
Part (N)one_ EXORDIUM_
Since we do not yet possess the language of a non-manifesto- or in a slightly modified sense- a non-writing that would uproot and displace the "transparent Ether" of clear, limited, and totally digestible units of communication - at any rate, we can multiply "theoretical violence".
Cerebral Terrorism is the designated realm of the annihilation of closures. For within every knowledge sphere there is always this beyond of spherical borders ( a beyond of the limits a given system invents for itself)- a beyond it must cross- and thus re-work the entire human enterprise. Towards that transgression and that re-working we discover- at the End-Age of Dialectics and metaphysics- the absolute necessity of our program.
Manifest "to make clear or obvious the eye or mind." How can we make plain, recognizable, explicit, perceptual, definite, glaring remarks on this suppressed and total revelation that- prior to all Worldly events- operates on the very logic where "thinking dies out" (Heidegger), a science of the "vanishing of the vanishing " (Hegel), in our language, irremovable Self-Occultation?
Further still, if our program consists in illuminating not only the extended angles of all disciplines- from Aesthetics to theology- ( at certain disjunctions where they interface, encode, and disseminate in a reservoir or empty set) but, moreover, illuminating that which does
not manifest, does this program then still have to order itself according the borders of a "manifest(o)"?
These questions- both active and suspended- pose themselves, write
themselves, orbiting around a closed and well-structured system of binary terms that- as we have seen- simulate authority, hiding the fact that there is no "system" (sustēma, "with"+ "set up).
What sets up the set up? Around this naive and uncritical question of origin, we nevertheless arm ourselves with a powerful insight- nothing sets up the system. Not so much a complete answer but a gap, hole, or pathway out of the thematics of scientific or philosophical schemes, themes of reason and definitive theories that currently dominate our field of inquiry.
"If the world, or anything, is supposed to have begun, then it must have begun in nothing, but in nothing — or nothing — is no beginning; for a beginning includes within itself a being, but nothing does not contain any being. Nothing is only nothing." Hegel, Science of Logic
Nothing (is) only nothing. "Alan (is) Alan" (Brine). The grid of the system and its codes here reach at pitch of total etherealization. Castrated from the foundation, center, law, nomology of an " absolute beginning", the destiny of systems, futures-pasts of man, in other words, the fate of all religions and science, float on air, (remaining inert and orderly only by a kind of "nostalgia for ideal transparency"), and pass now into their end-time or earthquake of meaning.