Ostranenie '97 [neurobot mission statement. dessau 5.11.97]

Strangely enough, looking through all the celulose madness I brought to Dessau, I find a xeroxed excerpt... of pages intercepted once from John Ranelagh's The Agency: Rise and Decline of the CIA. Page 288 and boom it is all here - the Berlin Tunnel story.
"Debriefing of the German scientists returning to the West from Russia, where they had been taken to work after World War II, revealed that the Russians were moving to UHF signals for their most important and secret communications."
The appearance of red occult radiophony memo is pury accidental. Just as the ultimate, dream machine-like flicker effect behind the channel hopping. Well, maybe it leads to a kind of symmetry, but not necessarily a regular one. The symmetrical chaos of Europe: brown bear vs. white bear. Clear-text echo vs. the interference of barbarous consonants. Inside looking out and outside looking in fused together in a dense non-dance context.
NOTAUSGANG=choice. How many times and places do we need to disrupt the element of choice to totallly destabilize cold war bandwidths. In Ignatus Donelly's paleocatastrophist theories the iconic image of Ended is hidden literally under 15 ft. of rock structure. The horizontal shift of the land of milk and honey would be the geographic heresy, possibly involving annihilation of all maps known and unknown. Digestive tremors of the terraphage end in convulsions, deletions, vanishings, hard disk crashes and stalled transfers.
However, filling of the cultural lacunae takes more than just extermination of the commonsensical senile media, and finding a replacement. Everything already exists on the morphogenetic plane: everything has been said, proved, measured etc. Yet in this deterministic hellhole some questions are continuously resurfacing. Who is the reality creted for, and through whose criteria should we astimate its impact? What is going to "arm our desires" in less than 3 years from now? Is it all escapism or its antithesis?

Being soaked in Dessau rain is what connects each and everyone today. Millenarist/apocalyptic Russian sect called "skoptsi" castrated themselves and their kin in the name of God. Extropians speculate that it is possible to castrate the whole corporeal outer shell in the course of mind uploading to an external brain simulator. I wish I could castrate the rain now. Unfortunately, deprived of natural phenomena and reduced to cerepral plasma, we would inevitably exhaust ourselves and become cash registers, promitive ironing boards and low-floating point calculators.

Jacek Staniszewski

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