April 19th, 2011

An Obliteratarium


An obliteratarium on the outskirts of YOUR town. Reasonable rates, basement full of geodes.

Geodes so pristine you can see your decrepit paws through them. Decrepit paws so decrepit you will want to wear gloves. Those are plentiful too, in this, the pleasure craft of obliteratariums. Pleasurable, is perhaps a misnomer.  It is situated in the negative space of network culture, a dark net but only if you feign disinterest in incandescence.

Regularly it is quite pleasant, tranquil claim some.  You can gaze at its noxious output even now.

February 5th, 2011

Obliteratarium by Incorporationalizations

A most mischief prone model of obliteratarium, here demonstrated in the obscure Mogul flight four routine.  Generally speaking, that which is pictured above,  occurs when at some stage in the development of infrastructure, certain ideas become so accepted and common-use that their contributors are no longer incited. Eventually, its source and creator are forgotten (“obliterated”) as the concept enters common knowledge (is “incorporated”).  At the level of visual resonance, it is questionable as to whether mogul flight 4 has found resonant frequency beyond a bevvy of airminded esoterica, but nonetheless, here we are. Hexagonal impossibilities be damned

March 19th, 2010

Disruptive Innovation

Now that a networked self is no longer the onus of anonymous amoebae, microbial magistrates are on the rise, inter-mingling publicly (not just internally) with once individualized humanoids in the conquest of time and space. Contends K.Varnelis in a recent revelation: “we are made up of multiple micro-publics, inhabiting simultaneously overlapping telecocoons.”  Call it disruptive innovation, if you will, primordial ooze has returned to claim its rightful throne in the networked cosmos. slime_mold_1-660x501Schizogeographic positioning systems, indeed, are afoot as urban planners down size design overhead by querying glorified bags of cytoplasm! In one instance, network engineers puzzling out rail systems in Tokyo exploited the economy of  brainless slime mold that “first creates a fine mesh network that goes everywhere, and then continuously refines the network so that the tubes carrying the most cargo grow more robust and redundant tubes are pruned.”  Not so long ago, gelatinous agents were marked as shills for Communism, today their amorphous agility and socialistic experience is lauded.

Blood_Falls_wiki01_Medium_Res_photolibrary.usap.gov But not all microneers are so willing to be entangled in the advances of the wired-up humanoid regime. Hardcore microbial Luddites inhabiting a massive glacial safe house in the Antarctic yonder have remained content in cold darkness without oxygen, let alone wi-fi access, for millenia!  Cosmically indifferent about appearances, these old school extremophiles travel in blood red torrents, a fashion statement at once hideous and care-free.  Such isolated populations constitute  obliterariums au naturale and they are gaining new respect–or at least temporary trackbacks–from portent deprived apocalypticists! In a world where continuous partial attention holds sway, nostalgic impulses travel laterally groping for google trends, such anomalous geologic phenomena  achieve sublime temporality, temporarily. Unfathomable and feared at least as long as a passing comet’s visibility spans thru the sky , or news of such events is sustained in a bout of tweets (which ever comes first)
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May 20th, 2009

Welcome to the Obliteratarium

When planets are aligned all too much is taken to task in the form of eschatological agendas.  The obliterati do not so much as feign an interest in such garishness, so far as I can assess.  Instead it’s calculated sabotage and much phasing in and out of sync.  When the planets are covertly, tactically, misaligned—this is when modular components are given to be mutated in ad hoc allegories, pattern overloads and a cine-psychosis of meta self-referencing narrative debris.  So much as I can assess, anyways :)

Welcome to the obliteratarium, a strong hold of grey market R&D, a nexus perplexus, and perhaps the only artificial environment for the study of this stealthy elite. Within this humble receptacle, careening as it is through the noosphere, design scientists and free-lance cranks craft database narratives and conspiratorial spreadsheets in efforts to identify the zero crossings of the obliterati

In the Pacific Northwest, obliteration cycles, churning always onward like an unstable volcano.  Key frames of reference include perhaps the Bigfoot, or at least an unshaven D.B. Cooper. In either case, a panopticonscientious objector, an interloper of and within vernacular information architectures. Agents inciting modular narratives, always on the cusp of pattern recognition, and nonetheless are prone to hideously recombine. Mercurial manovers bested by the elusive obliterati, an obliteratarium is almost certainly doomed from the get-go.  A theory object with a death wish.

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