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Explorations



This blog is a three-part book in the process of being written, in the form of initial drafts of the sections, posted in the intended order, a project for which the overall name is Explorations. The book is a continuation from Hidden Valleys, Haunted by the Future (Zero Books - 2015), and also from On Vanishing Land, an audio-essay made by myself and Mark Fisher (released by Hyperdub/Flatlines on 26th July, 2019 - https://hyperdub.net).


Part One: Zone Horizon  (1 - 18)

Part Two: The Second Sphere of Action   (19 - 30)

Part Three: Through the Forest, the River  (31 - 49) 

  Once perceived, the oneirosphere is a space in which the presence of unknown elements can perhaps be discovered. To look at this another way, it becomes clear that the oneirosphere is transected by dreamings of very different kinds (and the question becomes to what extent these dreamings belong to the depth-level intent of human beings, and to what extent they are anomalous, deleterious emergences).

    There are dreamings which are expressions primarily of love, freedom and awareness of wider realities.

   Then there are the dreamings of everyday existence – of the tyranny of moods. Anguished projections, fears, distressed hopes, resentful reveries, fantasies of revenge, angry, agonised, or neurotically fixated “re-playings” in the mind of events etc. – together with the fictions and historical stories that belong here, including the story of the billions of years of the existence of the ordinary world. Along with all of these there are the worlds of sexual fantasies, worlds which tend to be quite different between men and women, as witnessed by sales of pornography and romantic fiction. It is not that women are beyond the functionings of the control mind: it is that women have retained a greater awareness of love and the abstract (the outside) and it is that men are primary carriers of the control-mind modality, and primary enforcers of it (the beings who were a bit more set up to defensively circle the perimeter within the world of the outside have instead become the main prison-guards of the interiority, preventing any escape toward the Future).

   Then, again, there are dreamings in the form of the new oneiric-worlds that are taken up within the system of reason-revelation (this system is a primary productive feature of the trans-establishment or interiority). On the side of revelation these dreamings always fundamentally involve some combination of the ideas of transcendent-power and of interiority or valorising of "inner-life" above “nature” (along with a centrality of the male) and they come in the form of original texts and subsequent paratexts, or supplementary dreamings. It is also the case that the original story is always supposed to be the ultimate story, such that it is immediately heresy to suggest that there is a story which expresses fundamentally deeper, wider aspects of reality. On the side of “reason” the dreamings take the form of systems of valid abstraction which are produced by reason, but which are enveloped in a field of confusions and delusory mis-constructions which together function to suppress lucidity, and to suppress any sustained awareness of the outside (both Kant and Hegel are key examples here, and given their inclusion of religion within their philosophies it will be seen how the system of reason-revelation is indeed a system).

    The spheroambient eerie begins to insist. To the South there is Love-and-Freedom. And looking in the other directions a feeling  emerges that the human world is an immensely haunted place – and haunted in at least two separate ways. When someone begins to escape - into a becoming-active – from fear and neurosis and self-reflection there is something else waiting for them in the oneirosphere, such that, if they are taken over by it, their creative freedom will be channelled into them producing a new religion, or a new paratext of a religion (whether explicit, or in the form of a dreaming intrinsically inflected and pervaded by a religion, but which is taken up as “art”), or into the production of a new system of abstractions that functions to shut down awareness of the outside - awareness of the world as energy and intent. And the dreaming that has been produced, which was supposed to provide a solution to the human predicament, then in fact becomes a profound exacerbation of it – as if the second force or element both draws people toward it, and manifests itself as a production of materials that can then be taken up by the first one (the trans-establishment, the control-mind as it appears in the domain of the tyranny of moods).

    With individual worlds of dreamings this is not a binary picture of inclusion and exclusion in relation to these zones. For instance oneiric worlds recurrently have a profound, intense line of contact with Love-and-Freedom (the river runs through them) even though at the same time they are primarily focused somewhere to the side of the south-outside.

     But to return to a focus on the system of reason-revelation (and the de-subjectified but still-constrained creative modality) it can be seen how what is supposed to be the cure then becomes both the initiator of religious and political wars and the crushing of lucidity. The tyranny of control-mind moods, and the relative freedom of the creator of vast but fundamentally suppressive dreamings. And then the adoption by the trans-establishment of these dreamings (which properly defined are all oneiro-abstract systems, but of two different kinds).

     It is vital to concentrate attention primarily on the south-outside. But simultaneously it must be asked - what forces are haunting the human world?




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