Cybernetic culture research unit

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swarm 1
1. Nick Land-Meltdown
2. Kodwo Eshun-Motion Capture
3. R.Mackay/M.Fisher-Pomophobia
4. Rohit Lekhi-Futureloop/ Black Bedlam
5. Ccru-Swarmachines

swarm 2

digital hyperstition
1. Steve Metcalf-Killing Time/Strife Kolony/NeoFuturism
2. Angus Carlyle-Amortal Kombat/No UFOs
3. Rob Heath & Christina Paouros-Destination 3000 Degrees
4. David Cole-Post-Cybernetic Judicial War
5. Iain Hamilton Grant-Burning AutoPoiOedipus

6c. The Templeton Episode swarm 3

1. S.Livingston/L.Parisi/
A.Greenspan-Amphibious Maidens
The name of Profesor Randolph Edmund Templeton is inextricably tangled with the secret perplexities 2. Kodwo Eshun-Abducted by Audio (Live)
of time. It was he who, by way of a yet barely comprehended time-anomaly, provided the model for 3. Steve Goodman-Darkcore
4. Tom Epps-The Body of Foucault
HP Lovecraft's Randolph Carter ... And yet it was this 'same' RE Templeton who - on March 21st 1999, 5. Switch-Flee Control
whilst delivering a lecture at Miskatonic devoted to a rigorous critique of HG Wells - awoke suddenly as
the Thing that lurks behind the mask of Immanuel Kant, coincidentally discoverering the digital hyperstition
transcendental time-machine. 1. Ccru- Barker Speaks
2. Melanie Newton-Y2Panik
3. Steve Goodman- Hyper-C: Breaking the Net
Templeton sits immobile in his attic room, immersed in the deceptively erratic ticking of his old 4. Ron Eglash - Recursive Numeric Sequences in Africa
nautical clock, lost in meditation upon JC Chapman's hermetic engraving. It now seems that this 5. Ron Eglash - Africa in the Origins of the Binary Code
complex image, long accepted as a portrait of Kant, constitutes a disturbing monogram of his own 6. Ccru - Tales from the Cthulhu Club: The Vault of Murmurs,
Leaks from the Miskatonic Bunker-Hotel, The Templeton
chronological predicament. As if in mockery of stable framing, the picture is surrounded by strange- Episode
loop coilings of Ouraboros, the cosmic snake , who traces a figure of eight - and of moebian eternity - 7. Ccru - Pandemonium
by endlessly swallowing itself. Suspended from its lower jaw is a cryptic device of intricately balanced 8. Ccru - Glossary

circles and stars (ancient symbols of the AOE). Above the sepent's head, a facsimile of Kant is etched
in profile, the face fixed in an amiable - if distant - expression. What was it though, that hid behind
the death-mask, where it cut-off, below and behind the jaw, false ear, and double hair-line? What was
this peculiarly formless body, shadowy neck-flesh, and suggestion of a cervical fin? As he stared, and
hideously remembered, Templeton felt as though he knew.

Templeton has long asserted the impossibility of empirical time-travel. Since the ego is bound by its own nature to linear-sequentiality (he continues to insist) neither it nor the organism is ever
transported through time. Nevertheless, he describes the Critique of Pure Reason as a time-travelling manual, although of 'another kind.' He uses Kant's system as a guide for engineering time-
synthesis. The key is the secret of the Schematism, which - although "an art concealed in the depths of the human soul" - concerns only the unutterable Abomenon of the Outside (Nihil
Ulterius). In exteriority, where time works, that part of you which is most yourself has nothing in common with what you are. When Templeton fell into himself that day he found, instead of
what he thought himself to be, the Thing (in itself (at zero-intensity)). It was, perhaps, or necessarily, that continuous hyperbody - the Lurker at the Threshold - which HP Lovecraft names Yog
Sothoth ...

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