radical opinion investing in either 'anti-imperialism' or more obscurely 'the war against fascism', both seem strangely primitive in their analysis/positioning (and of course self-contradictory), like they fear themselves – the governance function of the left over that which would be felt intolerable if exercised by the 'establishment' and particularly here, the policing of anti-war hysteria, normalising/issue-ising it

i am fairly new to this site but am finding this entire discussion beyond fascinating. it seems moot to point out the omnipresence of petrochemicals in our daily lives: i've been on a mission to root out all plastic products from my lifestyle, and have all but given up: cooking utensils, carpets, clothes, my computer, packaging of all kinds--the "blob"/hyperstitional subject is horrifyingly everywhere i turn.

Disturbing the grave of the ancestral diatom...

There are other unicellular organisms involved in the formation of crude, but diatomaceous life seems to comprise a major part of oil deposits. I mention them here because they seem, in their structure, to touch on a few hyperstitional threads. Diatoms connect sand to oil via silicate; these organisms incorporate sand into their structure, the living parts of which are sandwhiched between two plates of silicate, their shells literally lenses for the accumulation of light in photosynthesis (open to the sun). After death, uncountable masses of these creatures fall to the bottom of the world's oceans and freshwater lakes; glacial flows and tectonic upheavals send them further underground, and, after thousands of years, their shells are separated out from their gelatified, decayed interiors. Industrial refinement separates out these cracked shells (now hungry ghosts, a fine white desicating powder used for insecticide, pesticide, abrasives, dynamite; called diatomaceous earth, this fine powder comprised of billions of lacerating shards slices the cell walls of what it comes in contact with, leaching liquids) from the decayed material (oil).

Silicate is also used, it should be added, as the substrate for microprocessors.

Etymologically, the diatom is either a cracked tomb or a cracked book; also, what passes through the cracked tomb or the cracked book. These dead monuments paper over the earth, a bookwormwoodpulp continuum.

Like parasites which alter the nervous system of their hosts, guiding behavior, the industrial-digital machine is possessed by the spirit of the ancestral diatom.

signal pilpil,

Thanks for your comment ... ‘Necromancers and Sorcerers’ (esp. the recent part: ‘anabatic lines’) has enveloped some camouflaged carriers for uncovering the politics of the left: the left as an appropriated line-of-escape saves the State’s macropolitics in a volatile / micro-economical status i.e. in an economically agitated state, or Terror’s economic network. Plus, we shouldn’t forget the role of Crisis-based analyses of leftist intellectualism: crisis-based analysis intensively strengthens the terror-dissipating binds between Subjectivity and Terror (the role of crisis-driven economy and logics); the left twists into a self-referential economizing agency of Terror.

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Paul S.,

Thanks very much. There are many posts on this topic in the hyperstition archive. (will post an article on 'the omnipresence of the blob / the outbreak of the Naphtanese religion on planetary body' soon)

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Thistle,

Excellent!

Definitely diatoms are anomalous hyperstition nexuses in this panorama; rather than mapping the phylumic connectedness of different entities, they are cutting through (tomia) different phyla (horizontal diatomy instead of top-down anatomy) and giving us an extremely wide-opened (openness as butchery) range of pest-positive components: (from insectoid motions enabled by exoskeletonism in the age of fast-forward bodies to sporulated / enveloped / camouflaged entities suitable for inter-continental bio-terrorism to silicon encored technologies), converging them all on the Thingness of petropolitics and its undercurrents. Take silica (SiO2) in the frustule of diatoms for instance.

Apart from its vast usage in optical / digital technologies, silica (and other silicon derivatives) is originating a very hot genre in the field of advanced nanoparticles and microfluidics esp. soft weaponry or as in the case of War on Terror, GAS/DUST weaponry (Xero-weaponry) [http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003348.html]. Militarized constituents of WoT mainly concentrate on additives (compositional ingredients and compositional anomalies) rather than the degree of development, evolution or perfection; additives engineer compositions with unique properties that conventional materials do not possess. As an additive, silica is usually used in production of aerosols, facilitating aerosolization by means of reducing the risk of agglomeration. In the field of soft weaponry (dust, aerosolized spores, nano-agents, etc.), silica induces many interparticle forces and surface-enhancing enzymatic reactions (resulting in morphologic / functional changes of surfactant) to particles; one of the favorite results is a smooth dynamism; particles can travel fast and spread over a wide area epidemically, be camouflaged and inhaled as dust (silica-impregnated Anthrax for example). Recent researches in silica nanoparticles also focus on silica as an additive that is capable of controlling the time of residence of particles and aerosol formation in different environments.

However, the hyperstition of diatoms requires the theory of fossil fuels, but if we take Thomas Gold's view in Deep Hot Biosphere the story is complicated.

Reza, I'd seen you mention Gold before. I haven't read the book myself, but I've taken a look at some of the paper's on Gold's site at Cornell. [ http://people.cornell.edu/pages/tg21/index.html ] The theory seems simple to grasp outright: a secondary (or primary to our secondary) anaerobic biological ecosystem inside the earth is responsible for a number of unexplained things, including the position and abundance of certain petroleum deposits. The question is, does this necessarily preclude other theories? It would challenge the centrality of the diatom in the history of petroleum, but could there be a collusion between aerobic and anaerobic unicellular agents, a recognition that multicellular organisms ultimately represent a greater threat to their own well-being?

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"...camouflage...": The starkness in diatoms of camouflage as life, diatoms camouflage into life, incorporating an obviously inorganic component (silica) into an organism. Elsewhere, I've called this "mortality tunneling." Not exactly a raising of the dead but a translation of death, of the grave, of the place of death, into life. Hence my reference to them as hungry ghosts. They incarnate by eating themselves into existence; their "bodies" are only the backsides of a mouth which is always consuming; or else they are mouths without bodies. (Eventually, I'll work to clarify some of this in a post about goblin etymology.)

Thistle,

great stuff ... some crude answers for now:

>>> mortality tunneling

Can you explain more? This sounds v. interesting.

>>> incorporating an obviously inorganic component (silica) into an organism.

This panorama is close to the darker side of Moravec and Stelarc’s works: “The Hollow Body is drained of desire.” (Stelarc) it’s drained of the anthropomorphic desire which is a restriction for xeno-excitations. According to Stelarc, Hollow Body (mainly the attractor of inorganic compositions) is an involuntary host for alien agencies. See: http://www.cold-me.net/text/hollow.html ... also, don’t forget the Iron Man.

>>> Not exactly a raising of the dead but a translation of death, of the grave, of the place of death, into life.

I call it ‘Germinal Death’ (Empedocles' philia is a key for understanding the process by and through which death is cracked open by life: necro-philia???) ... and Viktor Mazin calls it the mutual contamination of life and death, the result is the emergence of a rabid line of becoming whose becoming-death (its potential end) is no longer functional. See: http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=396 [Chernukha cinema: Evgenii Iufit’s works]

>>> mouths without bodies

Acephalous Mouths? See: http://www.channel83.co.uk/pr_reza.php

DIENES: a compound containing two double bonds between carbon atoms

AQ 330 = DANISHEFSKY'S DIENE = SEVEN-SEVEN-SEVEN = TOXYGENIZATION

AQ 82 = DIENE = BEING = BODY = DOVE = DUNG = EVEN = FLAME = KANK = LINK = PLACE = SKY = TEACH = THEM

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~che395/general/dictionary.htm
The topic of your literature search is Danishefsky's Diene; Your entry into the "Dictionary of Interesting Chemistry" must……..
…….describe the structure of this diene and its reactions with alkenes, carbonyls and imines (all acting as what?). Reference one An American journal, 1974. Look for the man himself! Reference two It's him again - same journal, 1982 with two others. Reference three Same journal, new authors KI & Yamamoto in the 1990's.

Samuel J. Danishefsky, Ph.D.
Head, Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory; Eugene W. Kettering Chair
http://www.mskcc.org/prg/mrg/bios/424.cfm
Dr. Danishefsky is one of the world's leading chemists in the synthesis of organic compounds. He and the bioorganic group have developed the first total syntheses of two natural products called epothilones A and B, which have the potential to become potent anti-tumor agents. He is also renowned for his strategies to design anticancer agents and complex carbohydrate molecules. He and his colleagues have prepared a synthetic version of a carbohydrate molecule found on the surface of some breast cancer cells. The molecule acts as an antigen, which means that it can be recognized and potentially attacked by the body's immune system. The synthetic antigen led to the development of an anticancer vaccine, currently in early clinical trials.