Foreword
I came across the CCRU the way most people probably do, through a term that surfaced somewhere and stuck. Hyperstition. Capital as an intelligence assembling itself out of the future. It sounded like something I wanted to understand.
Then I started reading and got nowhere.
The texts assume what I didn’t have. An essay by Nick Land works through Deleuze without naming him. Cybernetics is treated as general knowledge. Sources get cited that never existed, and nobody tells you. The secondary literature was no better, since it sorts out what you have already read.
What I needed was the step before that. I wanted to know what feedback is before someone tells me capital is a case of it. What Deleuze freed desire from, before someone bolts it onto a machine. I couldn’t find that anywhere.
So I built it myself, volume by volume, over several weeks. What came out of it is here.
Two things you should know.
The disorientation these texts produce is the authors’ intention. The CCRU built its sentences to pull you along. Smooth them out and you have destroyed them. I take nothing away from them here. I clear the ground in front of them.
And when you’re done, you have not read Land and you do not understand the CCRU. You have a map. It’s enough to set out without getting lost in the first ten minutes. That’s all it is.
For anyone who wants to do it the way I did. Look from above first, then go down.
Nano Zen
27 Volumes
Module I · The Foundation
- 01The Map
- 02Cybernetics I
- 03Cybernetics II
- 04Deleuze and Guattari I
- 05Deleuze and Guattari II
- 06Lyotard
- 07The Material
Module II · The Group
Module III · The Method
Module IV · The Core Theories
- 15Cyberpositive
- 16Land's Model of Time
- 17Teleoplexy
- 18Accelerationism
- 19The Numogram
- 20The Lemurian Myth
- 21Afrofuturism
- 22Sonic Warfare
Module V · The Aftermath