xenogaming

deicidus
 warning:
TIME TRAVELER’S SICKNESS

overton whiplash phenomenon

what is xenogaming?
the Game
this emergent Game is already out there,

feral

as schizophrenia,

and nascent in myths and nomics

what is xenogaming?
● immersive post-capitalist worlding
● an invasive outer-world entity
● a virulent parallel reality (contagious psychosis)
○ cf. JAGS Alice; Fringe; Hydra in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
● open-source, peer-to-peer dissensus reality construction framework
● a new kind of apocalyptic gig economy
● holistic, alternative mental health framework
● an emerging alchemical society
what would gaming look like on
Holochain?
what is Holochain?
● open-source library
● fully-decentralized P2P
applications
● no built-in currency
● one chain per user per app
version
gaming on Holochain
● massively multiplayer
● collaboratively-constructed rulesets
● highly coordinated flashmobs
● peer-to-peer spread
● sharing abundance
● gaming = activism = advertising
ontoboarding
● ontological onboarding
● crystal implant installation
● Dollhouse architecture imprinting
● Borg assimilation
● cyborgification
● scanning into the Game
● portaling into alternate realities (abduction by aliens)
● membrane-crossing service (onboarding)
● psychopomping
● cf. surfboarding, waterboarding
the post-capitalist “subject”
● post-Oedipal subjectivities
● transpersonal subjectivity
● post-identity politics
● modular identity
● consensual self-construction
 dank praxis:
facets of xenogaming
facets of xenogaming
● MM (weird/viral marketing)
● Connective Tissue (cross-pollination)
● Protocol Design
● Neodigital Outreach
● Hackerspace Replication
● Meaningful Gamification
● App Pipeline
“What would our world be like if all
military spending were redirected to
the creation of next-level Party
technology?”
weird/viral marketing
● memes
● mythos
● humor
● xeno
● games
cross-pollination and protocols
● bees and cross-pollination
● rhizome or connective tissue
● rolls out new protocols neutrally
● P2P canvassing
○ check-ins
○ ethics
● remixes the organization and sparks new connections
neodigital outreach
● you’re already living in the digital world
● networking local activist communities
○ what apps do they need?
○ peer-to-peer canvassing
○ Holochain and programming training
○ HoloPorts
○ setting up with spaces and resources
○ linking with app projects
hackerspace replication
● full-stack replication of abundance-based community spaces
● networking hackerspaces
● networking multiple local spaces to form a distributed commune
● how to form an economic unit that treats its members ethically?
● replicating capabilities as Holochain apps
meaningful gamification
● mass public gaming
○ as activism
○ as advertising
● one Holochain app = one game
● games plug together in shared mythic universe
○ cf. Marvel
the Map

map.holohackers.org
apps pipeline
● coherent pipeline
● assistance for designing and building apps
● network of designers, speakers, programmers, trainers
● training in the Academy
Xenogaming Industries
(XI)
Xenogaming Industries
● distributed alternative reality corporation (ARC)
● coherent linguistic platform
● evolving (anti-)platform for collective art
● mythic Holochain gaming department
XI: vision statement

“XI is creating an era of mass public gaming resulting in the

breakdown of capitalist subjectivity and the production of
post-capitalist subjectivities and modes of living; XI is
committed to offering an ‘ESCAPE HATCH’ from capitalism
into a labyrinth of transfinite portals.”
LEGALIZE XENOGAMING
darkchain technologies
for your backpack
—In the Mouth of Madness (1994, John Carpenter)
theory-fiction
● speculative praxis for developing convergent, eventually-consistent
metafictional technologies
● abstract quantity expressed as textual approximation
● channeling of outer-world entities (egregores)
● mapping alien topographies
● developed by ccru
○ especially Mark Fisher, Reza Negarestani, Nick Land
● “double-pincer” (Deleuze & Guattari)
○ technique of dancing back and forth between theory and hyperfiction
○ double-articulates both
—In the Mouth of Madness (1994, John Carpenter)
darkchain technology
● the chain of ideas which lead to the next dominant paradigm
● speculative hyperstitional labyrinth
● systematic negentropic mining framework
● magic item discovery matrix (hyperobjects)
● gets you really fucking high
holochan
problems with pepecash
● exclusive pepe focus
● relies on copy protection / scarcity as core valuation ethic
● closed process for adding new cards (centralized)
● hard to meaningfully index and employ hieroglyphs
○ we need to move towards holoxels
 PROBLEM:
CAPITALIZED
BORING
MEMES ARE BORING
BORING BORING
BORING BORING
BORING BORING
BORING BORING
BORING BORING
BORING SO
BORING BORING
the memebrary
● ultimate meme library app supporting hand-curation
● memetic accelerator
● ascendent world currency
○ laughter-based valuation
● ideological navigation (perspectives embedded in memes w/ word+image)
● emoticonomy (new hieroglyphics)
● qabbalistic language
○ “dialectics by bitrot”
holochan features
● distributed self-upgrading GUI on Holochain
● provenance (localized microsourcing)
● built-in gematria
● tagging
holochan already exists
in the future
and we can access it now
by constructing
well-formed queries
xenogaming memes
 more memes at
twitter.com/holomeme
Xenogaming Industries:
how you can help
Xenogaming Industries—how you can help
● the vision
○ Holo’s gaming division
○ Holochain’s activist gaming movement
○ functions as massively viral advertising for holochain
○ new menagerie of mass public games
○ coherent tech and mythic platform for ARGs-as-activism
● you can help me…
○ find leads—researchers, communities, events, games
○ improve and vet the concept of XI
○ design and author funding proposals
any questions?
what next?

● TEAM Briefing 2017

● andersaamodt.com/oeuvre.php
what next?

● Wrex + Holochat
paper
● andersaamodt.com/oeuvre.php
links
● my sites
○ andersaamodt.com
○ internetschoolofmagic.com
○ coalitionofinvisiblecolleges.org
○ twitter.com/holomeme
○ reddit.com/r/sorceryofthespectacle
○ andersaamodt.com/binder.php
● holochain
○ holochain.org
○ chat.holochain.org
○ holo.host
○ ceptr.org
xenogaming videos
● playlist on YouTube