“If illusion and farce are here to stay, all you can do is to keep (mis)using them, strategically. And we can also strategize with șmecheria (the cunningness) of the Romanian manele music, with Ștefan Tiron’s hyperdense pulp conceptualism, with the local Bezna [consistent darkness+diffuse fear], with Charlie Blake and Blake Victor’s hypostition, or CCRU’s hyperstition, who write theory-fiction and engineer concepts because “nothing is true and everything is permitted”(Cybernetic Culture Research Unit – CCRU). The complexification of the generalized ruse will do away with any essentialist idea on subjectivity and the human. No one will understand when we will pass beyond, into the out, where full automation will run a world-without-us, as in “Dimension X”, the radio show from 1950, in the episode “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury. Past the threshold, no one is left to hear a female voice from the past chanting each morning Sara Teasdale’s poem from 1920: “No one will mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly”. Until then, how to feint capitalism without nostalgically going back to notions of truth and the real, without critique and opposition, but through a dynamization of ruses, through an instrumentalization of the simulacra, by setting up traps, and unleashing the “zero”? Like the lamprey, we play the trick again, first not to self-eat, then to cannibalize worlds.”
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