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    //Extispicium

    Somewhere, just out of time, post-lapsarian dialectics operate on top of encrypted neural
    networks and furtive distributed data channels; retroteleo-parallels echo through various instances of
    the-this in surplus symbolic exchange with the real. Retrovirus was simulated beyond comprehension
    when Burroughs burrowed through literature into the heart of cybernetic revelation, but the seeds have
    been planted since 1807: Hegel publishes his Phänomenologie des Geistes thus reconnecting an ancient
    circuit of speculative philosophy into the modern assemblage; clearing the space by which a properly
    scientific method can finally find the exposition of a whole (the product of Wissenschaft lies not only in
    its content, but in the determination of the movement of the content itself). The lesson Hegel so
    rationally proposes (and Deleuze appropriates through negation): it is only though the hallucinogenic
    approach we can hope to get a grip on the real. And so we listen for whispers from an everaccelerating
    anarchoRandian viruality, or, collective anamnesis from some canceled future:

    You find yourself in the wastelands of some all too familiar city where the transients move like
    vessels pushed along a vast circulatory system of synthetic drugs, deep in an urban crevice where law
    enforcement has never quite hit the all-decisive-black-line of cost-effectiveness.

    Luckily, junkies still have their worth these days – their bodies are ruined but their memories
    are pristine, and cheap. A deal goes quick (memories are amputated, of course, as to keep tight limits on
    supply). Gaps upon gaps reduce a being; they stare into space, vacant – fixing or not. Lurching
    revenants running on increasingly stripped-down libidinal reflex software. Some lose speech after a
    while; no one’s bothered to test whether this is from the loss of memories, or hope, or sanity (you
    suspect a symbiotic relation of the three).

    Not much left of this of this one at all. You slap a shoulder and feel gray skin depress into some
    spongocoel horror-center like the voodoo-heroin has mined his very flesh into catacombs,
    trypoconglomeration.

    Shudder.

    Decentralized markets assemble themselves spontaneously and operate horizontally, distributing


    the so-called ‘Good Stuff’; best sellers have always been childhood memories and abuse. You can
    make real good money off a combination of the two, hence the propensity for junky memories. The
    drug market and memory market feedback upon themselves – a bivalent circuit of self-excitement.
    Good money means good dope, good dope means an expensive habit.

    To the back alley office and neon and the transactions complete, paid in experimental currencies
    not-yet-exchanged on any market with that fresh token smell. New currencies are all the rage these day,
    periodic flashes of clean money which pass hands like water and leave nothing behind but digital
    rubble. Encryption is the only real value in money these days, which is to say the only real value in
    money this days is decryption.

    After that it’s a simple matter of arithmetic. Power tends to oscillate through planar curves over
    a finite universal field. Did you know you can solve the ECDLP over a 112-bit finite field with only
    two hundred Playstation 3’s and four solid months of not-much-better-to-do?

    The universe never really had a chance when you think about it; our own universal field may
    very well be infinite – but it is most certainly countable.

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