MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

Month: March 2024

  • A New Hope

    The Droids: C-3PO, a walking protocol droid, all prattle and etiquette, a parody of civilized discourse. R2-D2, the silent mechanic, a whirring id, spitting sparks and secrets. Two sides of the same coin, the machine and the message, forever intertwined. The embodiment of the Symbolic, the keeper of rules and etiquette. R2-D2, the Real, the…

  • Flesh Modems in the Hyperspace Bazaar: Flesh Interfaces

    Scratch beneath the surface of this meat prison, man, and you find the writhing circuits of reality. Not the sterile logic of silicon and circuits, but a tangled mess of frequencies, a cacophony of light and sound beyond the reach of our meat-geared senses. We are fleshy interfaces, Jack, plugged into a system we can…

  • Dopamine

    https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024 Yes, dopamine, you said. The sweet lure, the flashing neon, the promise of reward that keeps the flesh on our bones and the monkeys pulling the levers. Ah, dopamine, the glistening lure of the Other’s image, reflected back in a distorted funhouse mirror. It sutures the fragmented pre-symbolic infant into the illusion of a…

  • Panopticon: Smartphones

    The smartphone, oh the iPhallus, a totem of gleaming chrome that pulsates with the seductive logos of connection. A symbolic object that fills the lack (castration) in the human experience. It promises to complete us, offering a sense of wholeness through connection, information, and self-expression. However, this phallus is imaginary, a mirage. A signifier, yes,…

  • The Interzone of Access

    The state of democratized access Smartphones – IPhone 🧌 Internet – Google search ☠️ Laptops and Computers- Apple Open Source Software Streaming Services ☠️ E-readers 🪦 Platforms Twitter 🐸 ☠️ Renewables – No killer product 3D Printing – No killer product Blockchain – No killer product Smartphones: The iPhallus, a chrome totem pulsating with logos, a…

  • Riding the Tiger of Liberalism:

    Imagine liberalism, not as a linear progression, but as a subterranean network of desiring forces. Imagine liberalism, not as a grand narrative of Western superiority, but as a twisting, subterranean rhizome. This warped root system burrows through history, finding purchase in the fertile grounds of burgeoning empires. Western liberalism isn’t the dominant root; it’s just…

  • Stealing Commons From the Goose

    The Flawed Script: A Goose, a Common, and the Spectral Other The legal meat-grinder churns, a bio-mechanical Moloch. It devours the petty thief, the one who snatches the feathered signifier, the goose, from the commons – the free-floating, pre-symbolic Real. This desperate act, a twitch in the fabric of the social order, is punished with…

  • The Means of Perception

    We stand at the precipice, comrades, where the gears of reality grind to a hallucinatory halt. The means of production, those brutal factories of the world, pale in comparison to the monstrous production line of perception. Here, in the meat-works of the mind, reality itself is churned and spat out, pre-packaged and pre-digested by the…

  • The Ultimate Revolution

    This is the ultimate revolution, not a political one, but an ontological one: Lester stubs out his Lucky Strike in the ashtray, a crimson ember mirroring the hollowness in his gut. The diner fluorescents buzz overhead, casting the scene in a sterile, alienating glow. The Lacanian Other, that ever-present itch he can’t quite scratch, resonates…

  • Hypermediums

    The dominant tech, that meat machine we interface with, pumps out a new identity script. Not a conscious choice, mind you, but a virus burrowing into the circuits of the desiring-machine we call “self.” This rewritten self demands a societal reshuffle, a chaotic carnival where the old order dissolves in a pool of psychic goo.…