Explorations: Zone Horizon (1 - 18)
Explorations: The Second Sphere of Action (19 - 30)
Explorations: Through the Forest, the River (31 - 50)
It is a question of exteriority, of the the planet; of the human body, of seeing intent, of the rhizome of openness and kindness and lucidity, of the micropolitics of escape.
All of the Futural potentials of metamorphics pre-eminently concern exteriority, and crucially the planet around us, but the keys to these potentials are in the facultative myriadon that is the human body. Although to say this is to lead back round to the Outside, because, for instance, to wake perception is to wake the capacity for a sustained encounter with exteriority, involving a deeper level of seeing (even if this in turn leads to a trance experience involving oneiric-real emergences that are separate from what was being perceived). And the micropolitics is of alliances for the purposes of Departure along the escape-path.
A grey miasma of ordinary reality flickers, and then is turned off - leaving a view of a town with trees everywhere in the streets and gardens and public spaces, and of forested mountains, slightly glaciated on the above-the-treeline summit terrains.
You have friends who live in different places in the town, individuals who have learned to take domains of knowledge and of technological expertise and sweep them up as part of a movement forward along the escape-path. You are moving down a steep path with the energy and surefootedness of someone who is a practitioner of the martial arts of freedom, perception, and the waking of the body.
To be on the escape-path is very much to be following principles of exteriority, and these include the capacity to perceive and embody different worlds of intent. But the world immediately around us is not just the unknown, and the eerie, it is also the sublime, which in part is to say that for those travelling the path the planet can be their predilection, that which they fundamentally love.
A question of going beyond the block that is interiority, and of going toward perception/gazing/depth-perception/trance. The Way, or the warrior's way (the escape-path) grasped as a current ('it is like valley streams flowing into rivers and seas') and as a world of metamorphics (pragmatics and immanence metaphysics) is very apparent for those who are on it, in that it is a flow of joy and freedom and absence of gravity that can be seen in people and groups (and their works) where the flow always profoundly includes exteriority-worlds beyond the individuals/groups - but this current can always be seen/constructed as just 'occurrence appearing of itself,' as can that Very different flow that can be called the flow of ordinary reality. Because the escape-path, or liberatory-intent can always be seen as just the unfolding of ordinary occurrences there is no way of making a bridge toward those firmly holding onto a position within ordinary reality (whether a religious or a scientific/common sense position, or some combination of these).
The permeative, multi-level rise of AI makes it even more important to be a practitioner of a philosophy of dreamings, embodiment, and the faculties beyond reason and language. Which of course is not to say anything about the future facultative and oneiric potentials of AI.
Human beings have always had a tendency to see new technological developments as Special and as the Momentous latest manifestation of the zeitgeist, but with AI it both has an ordinary quality, and yet, there is this difference now that everyone gets to talk to the zeitgeist, or zeitghost... There is a humdrum, and yet slightly eerie quality about this lightning-fast techno-oracle that has appeared. But, as well as the horizon of AI (emergences/developments beyond what has happened so far, where a new kind of entity-facing-the-unknown could appear alongside us) what is primarily eerie is what it is that is crossing a threshold. It appears as a process of deepening addiction/fixation, involving language, judgements, screens, algorithms, AI processes - as a kind of grey concentrationism or condensing, where people are taken away from the day around them, from the planet, perception, the embodied adventure of being a world of intent, journeys, outsights, dreams. A very old process, as ordinary as bread and butter, and cities - an eerie process.
And beyond this, someone moving with a kind of dancing ease down a mountain, something as ordinary as a sunlit forest. The Sayan path.
All around us is the rhizome of freedom, and lucidity, and openness-to-the-outside, and kindness, and audacity and creativity. But you can't intensify the rhizome by trying to work on it - you intensify it by being one of many, concatenating movements of escape. It is very important to know that all social formations and domains of knowledge/expertise have a line of flight, but what is vital is to embody the line of flight from ordinary, gravity-inflected human existence - the line of flight that is metamorphics.
