Cool. (XXX = 99)

AQ 630 = I AM NUIT AND MY WORD IS SIX AND FIFTY = POSTED BY KATHY HACKER AT JANUARY 30, 2005 10:07 AM

AQ 56 = Y2K

Nick Land- Meltdown
http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_melt.htm
The transcendent evaluation of an infection presupposes a measure of insulation from it: viral efficiency is the terminal criterion.

Intelligent infections tend their hosts.

Metrophage: an interactively escalating parasitic replicator, sophisticating itself through nonlinear involvement with technocapitalist immunocrash. Its hypervirulent terminal subroutines are variously designated Kuang, meltdown virus, or futuristic æflu. In an emphatically anti-cyberian essay Csicsery-Ronay describes the postmodern version of this outbreak in quaintly humanist terms as:

[A] retrochronal SEMIOVIRUS, in which a time further in the future than the one in which we exist and choose infects the host present, reproducing itself in simulacra, until it destroys all the original chronocytes of the host imagination. [Cs1: 26].

The elaboration of Csicsery-Ronay's diagnosis exhibits a mixture of acuity (infection?), confusion, and profound conservatism:

[N]ot thinking about æincreasing the human heritage' ... dams up the flow of cultural time and deprives future generations both of their birthright as participants in the life struggle and attainments of the species and the very notion of history as an irreversible flow encompassing generation, maturation, and the transference of wisdom and trust from parents to children, teachers to students. The futuristic flu is a weapon of bio-psychic violence sent by psychopathic children against their narcissistic parents. [Cs1:33]

It's war.

AQ 240 = SEMIOVIRUS = INTERSTICES = A BASQUE WOMAN = ADONAI HA ARETZ = ARABIAN NIGHTS = CIRCUMFERENCE = CONTINUITY = EXPOSED AREAS = MARKED FOREHEAD = PRICE TO BE PAID = ROBERT GREENE = SEISMOMETER = THE LIVING GOD = TIME-SLIPPAGE = TRIBULATION = TWENTY-SIX

northanger - relevance?

AQ 240 = TWENTY-SIX = SEMIOVIRUS

AQ 26 = GA

AQ 189 = THE CALL OF GA = CHAOS MAGICK
http://home.no.net/karl24/gacall.htm
THE HOUSE OF THE 31. Eternity is Allover. But The All (stretches) eternal-like, for darkness swings its punishing thruth over the 28 and are sustained. From the continous destruction howls (arises). The extacies of the 3rd are gone. The Crowned worm turns for my power, refusing the Holy seer its course, thereby in turns becoming the highest Justice; the forgetful 31 (ZOIGA). Open the house of acceptance. Open for the course of OIAD. The one which the seeds spreads to its places, provide thereby such acquaintance of strength, the work .. making the 28. You 31, visit me for the defacing visit that turns to unspoken Glory.

AQ 183 = GA - THE NAMES = LOVECRAFT
http://home.no.net/karl24/GAnames.htm

AQ 295 = V838 MONOCEROTIS = ALPHANUMBER TABLE
http://www.livejournal.com/users/northanger/4718.html

AQ 99 = XXX = MAYAN = AEONS = CLOSE = CRIES = DATON = DHARMA = DUTHA = ESUR = GLOBED = ISLAM = JACHIN = JOSS = KERSA = KNEPH = KNOW = LITHE = MARAKA = MIMRA = MOGEN = NEEDLE = PISS = PORN = QABBALA = QWER- = RAYS = SABBAT = SAUDI = SURE = TARADA = THETA = YHVH = YONI = YULE

"relevance?" - ?

AQ 196 = ANTI-CLIMAX = CYBERPUNK = DON PASCUAL = FOUR BALANEB = AXSYS CODE = BLUE AND GOLD = CANNIBALISM = CERTAINTY = CONCEALED GOD = NETJER ANKH = NOOSPHERE = OCCULTISM = ONE IN EIGHT = PIECE OF CRAP = RA-HOOR-KHU = REMEMBRANCE = RUA COPH NIA = SEX KILLER = SPACE-MARKS = STAR RUBY = SUBTLETY = THE PERFECT

AQ 277 = KISS IT GOODBYE = AUTOPHAGICALLY = DECEMBER 31, 2004 - 1:19PM PST = DELETED PASSAGES = ENGLISH LANGUAGE = GRAVITY PROBE B = JESU BEN PANTERA = KISS OF THE ANGEL = LITTLE CHILDREN = NIGRA CHRISTOS = NOMAD WAR MACHINE = SURGE CURRENT = TALLINN - NAILLAT = THE GEMMED AZURE

AQ 258 = NO SMOKING DAY 2001 = ABBA AIMA ABRAHADABRA = AMPHIBIOUSLY = ANIMAL SACRIFICE = CAPITAL OFFENSE = GATES OF ALAMUT = MY MAGUS WORD = NORTHERN ROAD = ROSE AND CROSS = SINODIC PHASES = SURVIVE A WAR = THE RITE OF MA'AT = THE WHITE LODGE = WORD OF THE LAW

AQ 830 = ANTI-CLIMAX - XXX - KISS IT GOODBYE - NO SMOKING DAY 2001

AQ 599 = CYBERGOTHIC SEMIOVIRUS SPREADS = A PURELY DISCURSIVE ENTERPRISE = INNER EARTH COMPUTER IS PYMANDER = PERSONAL VISIT WITH THE OLD ONES = DIVIDE, ADD, MULTIPLY AND UNDERSTAND

((before you ask vauung, yes i'm all done))

http://www.healthpromotionagency.org.uk/Resources/tobacco/NSD2001.htm
No Smoking Day (NSD) is a UK campaign funded and run by an alliance of health promotion bodies and professional and voluntary organisations. The campaign’s aim is to help and support smokers who want to stop smoking. It is estimated that over one million smokers in the UK participate in No Smoking Day and as a result an estimated 40,000 people stop smoking each year. No Smoking Day is aimed at all smokers and reaches this group through a media campaign based on news and feature stories, advertising and local events and activities. The slogan for the eighteenth annual No Smoking Day, which was held on Wednesday 14 March 2001, was ‘kiss it goodbye’.

AQ 277 = KISS IT GOODBYE = WEDNESDAY 14 MARCH 2001

>northanger - relevance?

an [oxy]moron, I think.

isn't this ad saying that smoking adversely affects ones all-important climactic potential, and therefore should be given up ('kiss it goodbye')? which would sort of scotch the claim of it's being an anachronised advertisement for K-neutral CR, although I suppose one is free to interpret as one wishes...look forward to seeing BAT and CR team up for world takeover!

I always wondered wtf csiscery-ronay was, nick?

or is the XXX un-CR-relatedly significant ?

[sleep-deprived confusion in dread basement]

"isn't this ad saying that smoking adversely affects ones all-important climactic potential, and therefore should be given up ('kiss it goodbye')?" -- yup, certainly seems so

::lighting up::

::blowing smoke rings::

holy shit, this thread has been trashed fast

hehehe

and the 'amsterdam café crew' haven't even arrived yet

u/c 'csiscery-ronay' - annoying cult-studs type

DEAD CHANNEL SURFING: Cyberpunk and industrial music, by Karen Collins

Cyberpunk represents an interesting coupling of concepts. It can be dissected, as IstvanCsiscery-Ronay has shown, into its two distinct parts, ‘cyber’ and ‘punk’. Cyber refers to cybernetics, the study of information and control in man and machine, which was created by U.S. American mathematician Norbert Wiener fifty years ago. Wiener fabricated the word from the Greek kybernetes, meaning ‘governor’, ‘steersman’ or ‘pilot’ (Leary, 1994: 66). The second concept, punk, in the sense commonly used since 1976, is a style of music incorporating do-it-yourself (d.i.y) techniques, centred on independence and touting anarchist attitudes. Csiscery-Ronay writes, ‘[c]yber/punk is the ideal post-modern couple: a machine philosophy that can create the world in its own image and a self-mutilating freedom, that is that image snarling back’ (1988: 185-86).

FLATLINE CONSTRUCTS, by Mark Fisher
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~posde/trans-mat/FC2s4.htm

Cyberpunk - or “imploded science fiction” - Csiscery-Ronay observes, “finds the scene of SF problematics not in imperial adventures among the stars, but in the body-physical/body-social and a drastic ambivalence about the body’s traditional - and terrifyingly uncertain - integrity.” [Csicsery-Ronay, “Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism”, Storming the Reality Studio, 188]

Big victory for the Free World in Iraq today

Science Fiction Research Association
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/sfra/famehall.htm

Pioneer Award Winners - The Pioneer Award is given to the writer or writers of the best critical essay-length work of the year.

1992 Istvan Csiscery-Ronay Jr., "The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway"

FLATLINE CONSTRUCTS, by Mark Fisher
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~posde/trans-mat/FC2s1.htm

Csiscery-Ronay: The horror genre has always played with the violation of the body, since it adopts as its particular ‘object’ fear - the violent disruption of the sense of security, which precisely because it is a sense, works from within the body, the house of the senses [...] Even when the same images or motifs are used as in the horror genre, they have a different value in SF because they attack not the image of the body, but the idea of the image of the body, the very possibility of imaging the body (to borrow a metaphor from cyber-medicine)[....] Cyberpunk is part of a trend in science fiction dealing increasingly with madness, more precisely with the most philosophically interesting phenomenon of madness: hallucination (derangement). [...] So the most important sense is not fear, but dread. Hallucination is always saturated with affect. It is perception instigated by affect. [ ...][79]

seems to be going well...druj knows what will follow though...

AQ 393 = FLATLINE CONSTRUCTS = CRASH OF SCIENCE FICTION = THE TERRESTRIAL AXIS = ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE = SPLENDROUS SERPENT

The divine Mark Steyn on Iraqi elections:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn30.html

"The divine Mark Steyn on Iraqi elections" - considering your reputation nick i'm asking myself what's "divine" about this. maybe i'm sensitive to the internatioinal anti-bush, anti-american pov. what say you?

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn30.html
When you consider the behavior of the Shia and Kurdish parties, they've been remarkably shrewd, restrained and responsible. They don't want to blow their big rendezvous with history and rejoin the rest of the Middle East in the fetid swamp of stable despotism. The naysayers in the Democratic Party and the U.S. media are so obsessed with Rumsfeld getting this wrong and Condi getting that wrong and Bush getting everything wrong that they've failed to notice just how surefooted both the Kurds and Shiites have been -- which in the end is far more important. The latter, for example, have adopted a moderate secular pitch entirely different from their co-religionist mullahs over the border. In fact, as partisan pols go, they sound a lot less loopy than, say, Barbara Boxer. Even on the Sunni side of the street, there are signs the smarter fellows understand their plans to destroy the election have flopped and it's time to cut themselves into the picture. The IMF noted in November that the Iraqi economy is already outperforming all its Arab neighbors.

You might not have gained that impression from watching CNN or reading the Los Angeles Times. The Western press are all holed up in the same part of Baghdad, and the insurgents very conveniently set off bombs visible from their hotel windows in perfect synchronization with the U.S. TV news cycle. But, if they could look beyond the plumes of smoke, they'd see that Iraq's going to be better than OK, that it will be the economic powerhouse of the region, and that the various small nods toward democracy going on in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere suggest that the Arab world has figured out what the foreign policy ''realists'' haven't: that the trend is in the Bush direction. When Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, warned that the U.S. invasion of Iraq would ''destabilize'' the entire region, he was right. That's why it was such a great idea.

northanger - "what's "divine" about this?" - replace with 'Great' or 'Magnificent' according to taste - his predicative record is unparalleled btw.
"maybe i'm sensitive to the international anti-bush, anti-american pov" - that's where we differ honey bunch

"honey bunch" - do you check the nummifier when you call me stuff, or do you pull it out of your head on the fly, beezlebub?

northanger - 'honey bunch' to be pronounced with a Texan twang.

KJI maybe going under too (http://www.command-post.org/nk/2_archives/018777.html) - nothing like kicking the new millennium off on a speed rush

nick - :sigh:

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0315,koerner,43200,8.html
A halfway complete list of must-read cybersources would take up the entire Voice, so consider the following a mere hodgepodge of favorites. If you're in the know about Salam's Baghdad blog (dear_raed.blogspot.com), that may mean you're already turned on to Command-Post.org, the best compendium of as-they-happen events Mr. Roboto's found to date. The trove is updated every 10 minutes, with links ranging from USA Today to the Abilene Reporter-News. Also thrown in are Arab-world headlines and the occasional snippet of Russian scuttlebutt. Visit early and often.

northanger - you'd just mainline Command Post through Instapundit if you could get into this molar blogosphere thing (i mean, the Village Voice!??)

what is that stain, just below where it says "KISS"?

my guess - Cthulhu juice

what's so wrong with the village voice? don't get twitchy about the blogblogblogsmchmere.

what's so wrong with the village voice? don't get twitchy about the blogblogblogschmere.

northanger - hey, that was worth saying twice ;)
(what i'm questioning is getting to the Command Post VIA the Village Voice, it's like getting to the NY Times opinion page via Free Republic)

ah, my last post did go through. twice.

i'm assuming VV=NYT and CP=FR & that mixing these together is bad form: kinda like a british upstairs / downstairs. i like the way you complain about stuff like it's this big problem. it makes you appealing.

"kinda like a british upstairs / downstairs" - ow, that hurts