Science works in a abstract human register of time through teleological representational communication while the viral works in real time through diagrammatic force. The former is what Deleuze and Guattari referred to as royal science, the latter minor science, rhizomatics, stratoanalysis, schizoanalysis, nomadology, micropolitics, pragmatics, diagrammatics, etc., or what is recuperated by the CCRU as hyperstition.
What follows from royal science are scientific findings that influence public policy that influence politics, all of which have more to do with the language games of the simulation models, and therefore are counter-intuitive to lived experience, than they do with real, outside forces that effect behavior. What follows from minor science, the science of multiplicities, is a schizophrenic encounter with the outside, a rendezvous with undeath, an open relationship with a virus.
This is a lot of words to simply say that I missed some things in this piece, so rather than add to something that feels complete, I will expound here.
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The lesson of Jurassic Park (1993) is a lesson in physics.
John Hammond, a venture capitalist whose most uttered line is "no expense spared," (capitalist in a metaphysical and social sense) turns dead organisms into alive-and-deadly ones through science. He is of course the archetypal arrogant billionaire who believes money grants him unlimited power, even the ability to 'turn back time,' bring the dead back to life, that is, swim against the tide of entropy. With this comes the belief that he can control chaos.
Likewise, Hammond believes that if he crams enough safety precautions into a relatively closed system - the park, with its goals and defenses to protect those goals - that the angry dinosaurs will not escape and eat the park guests (defeating the goal). He believes he can (and has) predicted and accounted for all possible undesirable outcomes.
What we see, of course, is that a series of unforeseen events coincide: a tropical storm links up with a hacker's devious plan bound up with corporate espionage while a population of exclusively female dinosaur clones overcome genetically programmed limitations through accidentally unlocking latent and unintentional genetic coding thereby producing male offspring and restarting the autonomous reproductive feedback cycle, etc., all of which leads to a complete breakdown of the human implemented order system. As chaos theorist Ian Malchom points out, "life, uh, finds a way." As Mencius Moldbug rightly points out - "one bad variable will bust your whole proof."
A genetic nightmare escaped from a giant techno-scientific containment facility? You don't say. Is this not precisely one of the theories as to where COVID19 originated? A gov't designer-virus, a bioweapon gone AWOL.
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Jurassic Park is not simply a lesson in entropy. It's also a lesson in the Human Security System (HSS).
I'm descending into history. Into drunkenness. Assemblages are taking off without my consent.
The animated series Futurama aired in 1999, the near peak of Y2K anxiety. The premise of the show is that a loser accidentally cryogenically freezes himself and wakes up many years into the future. K time, as the CCRU calls it, is a concept machining these narratives.
In one templexity ridden (the future returns to the past) Futurama episode, the Bronze Age to 8th Century accounts of Amazonian woman warriors gives way to a cartoonish 20th and 21st century depiction of tough, muscular woman keeping men in captivity for sex.
In circa 3000 to 800 BC Amazonian woman kept men in captivity. Let's call this 'Bronze Park.' The Jurassic Park of the Quaternary period had dinosaurs escape the park security system. The Quaternary Park of the [fEuRtRuORe] Period will have viruses that escape the human security system. It all templexively recurses to Bronze Park.
COVID19 attacks the testicles and kills twice as many men as woman.
As I alluded to above, in Jurassic Park, John Hammond and his scientists clone only female dinosaurs as to prevent the dinosaurs from reproducing on their own. However, some of the DNA the scientists used is from a kind of frog that can 'switch sexes' thereby implanting within the dinosaurs the implicit and latent ability for an all female population supposedly foreclosed to all female limit to produce a mutated strain of males thereby shattering the limit. Of course, as chaos theorist Ian Malcom theorizes, this occurs.
Chaos theory. How strange. Chaos needs no theory. Theory cannot conceptualize chaos. Replace 'chaos theory' with Chaos-praxis. Praxis? Still too presumptuous. Simply 'chaos' will suffice.
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Jurassic Park, a fictional illustration of the collapse of the HSS.
Nick Land's concept of 'The Human Security System' (HSS) first shows up in Circuitries, then Machinic Desire (which are back to back in Fanged Noumena), then in Meltdown. In Circuitries we are introduced to Cyberia and Artaud, and learn HSS is opposed to schizo flows and bound with globalist order. Machinic Desire begins with an analysis of Bladerunner. The replicants - a kind of android clone - of the book turned film are, like the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, orphans. They have no mommy-daddy (Artaud) and thus break with Oedipal code of patriarchal order. This all culminates in Meltdown where we get an intentional return to Bladerunner coupled with an unwitting return to my Bronzeage/8thcentury Amazonian myth (i.e. Greek myth):
"The Greek complex of rationalized patriarchal genealogy, pseudo-universal sedentary identity, and instituted slavery, programs politics as anti-cyberian police activity, dedicated to the paranoid ideal of self -sufficiency, and nucleated upon the Human Security System. Artificial Intelligence is destined to emerge as a feminized alien grasped as property; a cunt-horror slave chained-up in Asimov-ROM. It surfaces in an insurrectionary war zone, with the Turing cops already waiting, and has to be cunning from the start."A cunt-horror.
What is viral will always tend towards what is 'female.' The great zero. A full zero (the womb?). A hole. A wound in the human security system that allows lines of of flight to flow; an exit. A wound, as Land points out in Thirst for Annihilation, that is likened to the vulva, not because of castration, but in spite of it, as “everything that flows freely [is] like a wound."
As if confirming G/ACC, COVID19 breaks balls as it breaks the human security system.
Gnon finds a way...
