Early in April of 1929, workmen excavating outside what would later prove to be the throne room of the Assyrian King Sargon II at Khorsabad (an Iraqi village standing on the ruins of Dur-Sharrukin) uncovered fragments of a colossal relic; an implement of war in desert particularly designed for the dust-swamp of Mesopotamia or the Xerodrome where warmachines undertake sporulation as a way of endurance (since all modes of conventional military survival in this dust-swamp are starved to death ... tactical fluxes are dehydrated) and becoming endo-bacterial relics: a sentry-drone capable of marching forward, flying and guarding motionless all at the same time through condensation of tactical multiplicity.
Sheedu Lamassu or Lamassu (the Repellent of Evil) and sometimes known as The Last Guardian is a winged bull or lion with a human head mostly found with five legs. Lamassus belong to the neo-Assyrian era known as Sargonian; they are key figures in the Evil-against-Evil (The Exorcist’s main theme) occultural polytics mainly developed by the war-crazed Assyrians, Lullubis and a part of Phoenicians in which War itself is hunting warmachines, and the first task of warmachines is to perceive that war is not a consequent of their collisions or enmeshed by the cutting edge of their crisscrossing lines of tactics, but it is a space which spawns warmachines to hunt them down and set up what the warmachines call WAR. It is this ultimate lustful ferocious superstitious autonomous Thing (named WAR) that forges the Axis of Evil-against-Evil on which war hunting warmachines rather than warmachines hunting each other. War runs on terminal fusions of strategy and tactical multiplicities, whatever emerges as the function of this superstitious incredibly pestilential Thing (or WAR) is a devastating disruption in differentiating flows of the warmachines (tactical meltdown), producing too much heat for their assemblages that they immediately start to melt and molecularly break into diabolical particles (of which Assyrians suspected Mesopotamia is full), molecular warmachines reinvented on another plane -- warmachines more radical in the sense of war -- running as the transports of war’s affect space. It’s mainly from this axis as a hyperstitional vehicle that this superstitious Thing or WAR has impregnated Zoroastrianism as the germ cell of Abrahamic monotheism, and later effectively bursting in Islam’s military omega (or Qiamah) where every warmachine must burn and military survival crashes into the core of burnout.
The Axis of Evil-against-Evil is the ‘polytics of endurance’ in War without getting attuned or economically appropriated as a survival, it seeks to reach and simulate (in the term of modeling) the machineries of weapons that war employs to hunt warmachines: modeling terminal fusions of tactics / strategy which constitute hyperstitional folds (polytical agitations which travel a set of dimensions while remain anonymous, cryptogenic and trackless: as the cataflight of demons [more on this soon]) corresponding to the superstitious unlife of WAR (as in the case of Lamassu).
Assyrians understood that the tactical knowledge of warmachines must expound upon this axis (which perceives war as an autonomous superstitious Thing emerged to hunt warmachines of all kind) if they are to protect the State. But the state protected by such hyperstitional warmachines unknown to western lines of tactics is the State one can easily formulate and put into a conflicting communication with nomads, the state corresponding with Deleuze-Guattarian model?
Lamassu which profoundly named The Last Guardian is always found in pair at the border of Assyrians palaces and the gates of the most sacred temples ... viewed from the front, it stands firmly in place; from the side it appears to stride forward, setting a hunt in desert while flying to chase pests from the sky. The most terrible assaults are those carried by hyperstitional particles of other warmachines as well as the diabolic undertides of war itself. Lamassu undertakes a strategic course of action engineered by terminal fusions of tactics and strategy to defend the state against hyperstitional particles (profoundly dreaded by any warmachine on conventionally dynamic course of action). Assyrians believed that the most terrible warrior of their empire is not their human berserkers but Lamassus. On the other hand, Lamassu turns the borders of the state, its horizon, and its gates into hyperstitional zones; here the borders are the most intense hyperstitional zones which do not hold hyperstitions back any longer but become hyperstitions to give a proper response to incoming xenosignals. However, there is always the danger of retro-collapse caused by anomalies generated among border activities or the fact that all hyperstitions are getting autonomous even if engineered by the State and working as agents. Follow the catholic obsession with gargoyles (although they don’t have the constitutional role of Lamassus in defending the state and are more decorative) but they tell the same story. Pulp-horror is right to see the ominous shift in the direction of hyperstitional agents; as soon as gargoyles get fully hyperstitional (fusing with intrusive outsiders, hyperstition particles and get a hyperstitional entity of their own), they rush in, beginning to feast on everything remained inside the walls and empty aisles, melding into pillars, infesting them stone by stone, deeply embedding the architecture by their own khemistry.
Hyperstitional ‘agents’ work more virulent in the pragmatics of understanding WAR as a hunting space, they have the schizotrategic creativity of hyperstitions and the perverse taste of the State; simultaneously, they strip two kinds of policy constraints from the border: fading the threshold of hyperstition dynamics around the state by strategically attracting intrusive hyperstitions (and diabolic particles of all kind) and progressively becoming hyperstitional to the point that they turn to the inside, become warlocks.
Lamassu becomes one with the attackers in operating HYPERSTITIONALLY ... making the state prone not to certain hyperstitions as it is now a part of hyperstition. This is a black epic brewed up by the Mesopotamian Axis of Evil-against-Evil.
Posted by R. Negarestani at June 23, 2004 02:56 PM