when I posted here last, I also updated the about page to make it a little more coherent. I call this an experimental blog. I figured it was necessary to say so otherwise noone would be the wiser. As of now, voidtext is painfully conventional both in form and content.
void: to be in a void is to be divorced from context. Detached from the situations and circumstances where substantial action can occur, the nodes in the machine cauterized, dissolved. There's nowhere to jack into and nothing can happen. Like a nihilistic anti-cybernetics: no inputs and no outputs. It sounds a little like malware, and it basically is. First and foremost, it's a lie. But as recent history makes clear, unmasking lies doesn't always do much to defang them.
"What would you say if I told you we could correct your neural damage, Case?" Armitage suddenly looked to Case as if he were carved from a block of metal; inert, enormously heavy. A statue. He knew now that this was a dream, and that soon he'd wake. Armitage wouldn't speak again. Case's dreams always ended in these freezeframes, and now this one was over."(Neuromancer)
text: the gutenberg galaxy, the perfect product. Burroughs said that languge is a virus, and no one can deny its inherent danger. I'm constantly getting burned by the stuff myself, like a kid sticking his fork in an electrical socket. At the same time, it always seems like it doesn't have enough firepower, like it's not harmful enough to make a difference where it counts. Kendall Roy wonders if words are just 'complicated airflow' and Nick Land publishes esoteric theory resembling caveman drawings. This is how the malware keeps itself alive: lies persist if the lies work, if they produce something somehow. How do you replace useful lies with useful truths? But beyond the properties of text is an uncomfortable question about framing, about the fourth wall within any presentation.
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A window. A picture.
Layers of lenses.
An old love letter. An anti-communist pamphlet.
Asking an LLM for advice on restoring your great grandfather's typewriter.
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Are you in or are you out?
- v0id