Furthering Negative Limitations (notes)

//Trying to get back in the habit of posting here....even if only a place to keep the occasional note, such as this one for the Thornscape essay.//

When identity (executive synchronic function) is removed or blunted forcibly, there can be an instinctive
fightback against this loss (which is not dangerous or problematic on its own, but only relative to certain
mental outlooks that privilege the Self as Center).

This fight itself (in brain terms: pathologically persistent search functions operating on zero data/an
empty frame of reference OR the pathological addition of new data to a frame that is in the process of
being emptied or broken) generates new identity-frames that temporally extend the experience of
dissociation. This can be extended toward a limit where, when we reach a point at which “bare” identity
is generated out of “nothing”, every glimpse of a frameless state autogenerates a new frame that
emerges directly into a state of autodeconstruction. This oscillation prevents a “clean” experience of
the frameless void-state/mors mystica, and prolonged exposure to this oscillation can generate
extreme anxiety, depression, various and sundry negative or painful brain states (this can resemble
tinnitus - depending on certain environmental factors, you can actually *hear* the oscillation).

This can last indefinitely because every recovery attempt generates movement away from the
frameless space, leading to a state in which the identity only remains insofar as it is connected to loss
or pain or whatever is removing the frames - i.e. a negative bias against frame-removal will result in
the pain of breaking frames, fear of lost frames, grasping at new frames, etc; while a positive bias
toward frame-removal will experience negativity in the sense of being unable to speed up the removal
without generating new frames, fear of being unable to prevent the generation of new frames,
grasping at nothingness, etc.

His Brain was Infected by Devils: Tinnitus as Master Sound, Waveguide to the Frameless State

/// ...Another trait the flat tone. No life. Same flat tone at all times.
For its affirmations. For its negations. For its interrogations.
For its exclamations. For its imperations. Same flat tone. You were once.
You were never. Were you ever? Oh never to have been! Be again. Same flat tone...

Samuel Beckett -- Company ///

a note on Nishitanian Alignment

I finally have something to say to you....an inkling, a short stab, of where the next phase of my plot will be heading. Something coalescing....somewhen.... (a topological reveal-ation, the hyperspherical harmonics of meaning and mysticism....we are heading somewhere with this, somewhere called Erewhon, the Interzonal Public Librarynth) 




What Nishitani Keiji unfolds in Religion and Nothingness is a re-description of Christianity, Zen, existential atheism, and nihilism in such a fashion as to render these seemingly disparate chains into several perspectives on the same (non-)structure.......

......or maybe a better description might be that, in NK's reading, these become several facets of a singular map, like tomographic plates, demonstrating a spiralling-inward to a zone where even the wailing subjectless emptiness at the heart of nihility is destroyed, where even loss is lost, where annihilation is annihilated and the hole at the heart of God (the place in God where God is not Itself, where Life and Freedom spontaneously arises in union and unison with....) and the hole at the heart of Self (....the place in Self where Self is not itself but God: the neuromystical space where boundaries disappear and differentiation collapses into unity) "metaharmonically" align.

NK uses these metasystems, systems of systems of symbolism, to trace the unboundary of the seemingly impenetrable nihility that the face of god and Cartesian dualism wall us off from, the nihility that Sartre expresses as the ecstasy of being but proceeds to make the ground of being, thereby subverting the absolute negation before it hits the absolute affirmation, generating a new wall. Nishitani declares this walling-off from nihility to be the "ego closed up within itself", a nothingness posited from within the ground of Being and therefore unable to "im-penetrate" into the meaning(-((full)ness)) of infinihility.

It is this //paradoxically both firm and penetrating and soft and envaginating//* alignment that provides the "existential conversion" from the many shades of relative emptiness and relative nihilism NK delineates into the absolute nothingness of finding a completely pure and overwhelmingly complete modal continuum in the coterminous and omnirecursive reflecting abyss wherein God and Self are not Themselves but are Each Other. This tracing is also a high resolution scouring of these religious philosophies for potential points wherein the True Black of total nihility in the face of God, the absolute nothingness of the Godhead, the Great Doubt that is true philosophical nihilism, the Great Death that is sunyatta are seen as isomorphic aspects of the locus extremis, snapshots of obliteration which may be captured and aligned to "category-theoretically" or even topologically reveal novel connections between diverse terminologies while simultaneously expanding our cognitive ecology to prepare our selves for these inverse no-wavefronts of blacklight - of which biological death, conscious-less sleep, "ego-death" and total dissociation are but 4 notes of an unbounded spectrum of non-existent OMni-tonality...made all the more Real for its nonexistence.

//Existential conversion consists in extricating oneself from a person-centered mode of being to come out on the near side, in a mode of personal being in the immediacy of the actual self. The "nothing at all" behind the person comes out into the open on the side of the self, the original self. If person be regarded as the sheer mode of self-being itself, "behind" which there is nothing, this is so because the matter is being looked at or thought about. When the "nothing at all" opens up on the near side of the personal self, however, and is seen as the sheer self itself, then nothingness really becomes actualized in the self as the true self. Then it is appropriated (in the sense of being made available) in the self. Self-existence...becomes the realisation of nothingness. "Appropriating" is not "looking at." Pressed to give it a name, we might call it a "seeing of not-seeing", a seeing that sees without seeing. True nothingness is a living nothingness, and a living nothingness can only be self-attested. - Nishitani Keiji, Religion and Nothingness//


* : Charlie Blake - 'Dronoclasm' from forthcoming Sustain//Decay on voidfrontpress.org spring 2017

Found in an old notepad, presented unedited...apparently I wrote this...

grim funeral/necro/expression within inexpression/unexpression/the inexpressible. 

Annihilating Unity

Accelerating toward Ø 

As black metal's punishing ascent toward the "Haptic Void" culminated in sacrifice to transcendence, the quest for transcendence was swallowed by the concerns of the transcended. Black metal had evolved and new concerns filled the holes left by solving the puzzle of Christianity and its inversion through atheism, agnosticism, irreligiousity and modern paganism. The attack vectors upon the cross easily become sublimated into attacks upon a dominant american/capitalist/conservative ruling class, whose primary mode of movement toward the modern black metaller is through an anti-environmentalism/progress as industrial growth/anti-human(though decidedly not anti-humanist) power paradigm that had itself in many ways evolved out from an over-reliance on Christianity . The Cascadian scene revels and flourishes within the new man/nature dialectic, fashioning themselves as modern warriors of the soil, Melancology is born. Melting down the human and ultimately selfish desire for transcendence into selflessness via involuting that selfishness into a "selfishness for the world." 

----------Black Noise takes this "upward" trajectory and repurposes a linear gaining for a spiral recursiveness. We aren't aiming for the end, but a true rebirth in the OM of nothingness.

Black Noise must necessarily perform this radical deconstruction in order to expose how universal the feelings evoked by black metal are, by showing that all of the individual parts of the assemblage, on their own, are interrelated to every -or any- other style. To show, as Glenn Branca, John Cage, and hundreds of others before, that there are no rules, there is no objective haptic void as terminus, that "nothing is true and everything is permitted"(WSB), and to explicitly challenge preconceptions about exactly what art or music is. 

The return to the formless noise of OM opposing the extraction of Music FROM the formless noise of OM.

Simultaneously infinite and unattainable

Haptic void is not ^ an ending point, but one space among many….one node among many, comparable to deleuze's rhizome Connectable in assemblage, in sequence, or singular through a process similar to quantum entanglement...to inhabit the haptic void and use it to power incursions into other genre spaces. a black hole with infinite mass, dragging us inward and crushing all light into singularity. providing unity and universal fluidity through formlessness of noise.

If "Transcendental Black Metal is in fact nihilism, however it is a double nihilism and a final nihilism, a once and for all negation of the entire series of negations." as Hunter Hunt Hendrix posits in his manifesto, then Black Noise is a over-nihilism, a suffocating and desolating blast exposing the haptic void as not the infinite and unattainable end point of maximal brutality, but as a space in a 4 dimensional field infinitely connectable and relatable to all traditional genres of music. A space borne of a capability for negation in all things, but rather than the view traditionally espoused in relation, not in series or inversion, but in rhizome. In an interconnectability of emotion with style, the haptic void could be expressed as the death drive, emotionally attachable to any creative movement. A hearkening back to creation not as flower gently unfolding in morning dew, but creation as rupture, as pressure on fissure, to view  entropic reduction of statue to clay as simply a variant nexus of creation rather than destruction removes the inversion necessary to Transcendental BM's superiority complex and gives all progressions of intensity in every or any OR NO direction positivity. Maximising internalised intensity. Maximising stagnation to speed entropy. 


A tearing of the transcendent arc affirming no way out. 

The transcendental view of the haptic void reaches the top of the mountain and dies to be reborn. Black noise annihilates the mountain and kills everything so that all may be reborn. Sonic building blocks reduced to OM. A 'disappropriation' and reduction of all possible sounds from any position into a near uniform hum of feedback and the "bright white nothing at the end of a tunnel"(Thantifaxath 2013)

black noise is a convergence of two(twin? nearly parallel) vectors in emotion/genre-space that both contain 'Haptic conditions' or 'endpoints' in their respective genre/cultures, multiplying the effect of their shared darkness by reinforcing it with each style's capacity for extremity.

to drag the transcendant into harmony with our new system of flexible immanence, we simply offer the possibility of transcending the classical historical-progressive method of genre delineation into a more complete unified "rhizome" or node system wherein stylistic choices, historical musical influences, emotion, and intensity(stylistic choice and intent marking multiple positions in genre-influence/space, with emotions felt during the process of creation replacing time, and intensity marking a vector and speed toward convergence points) create a 4 dimensional vector map of possible achievable sound with black noise being an impossibly remote point where multiple sets and types of extremity coalesce and converge at high intensity. 
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The mode of the haptic void is involution. It reaches out from the future to fuel our incursions into it, pulling us along, making every press into it stronger and more robustly extreme. Not creation or revolution. A complete abandonment of the concept of endpoint. a replacement of the arctic circle/negation of negations inversion with the concept of a spiraling of intensity that can never be fully begun or ended. An opening of the circle to allow for Time and progression within the cursory boundaries of the circle-.
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to place oneself at the very limit of oneself where one is dissolve  to NOTHING.
—Scott Wilson
“Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.” 
― Mark Z. Danielewski
Via dissonant resonances within and among these three phenomenal nodes, black metal vibrationally unhinges the order of things, tritonely crushes all holy trinities, annihilates every binding of the chain of being.

—Nicola Masciandaro

He withdraws into a liminal space that exceeds the capacity for mortality to withstand it, and undergoes a sacrificial demise in order to open himself up as a habitat for and an expression of the power of the demon. 
—Anthony Sciscione
A philosophical demonology would therefore have to be “against” the human being – both the “human” part as well as the “being” part.
—Eugene Thacker
Instead of the power of prohibition and censorship Black Metal Theory serves to increase and expand more and more on that which has been forbidden.
—Niall Scott

“Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.” 
― Jindřich Štyrský

“The obstinate miner 
of the void 
exploits 
his fertile mine” 
― Jean Cocteau

indestructible truth

"Have I not declared to you that it is in the very nature of all compound things that they must be dissolved again? We must separate ourselves from all things near and dear to us, and must leave them. "
Buddha "The Announcement of Death"

Perhaps this is why metal is heavy – not because it is about nature, politics, or religion, but because it gets at a central ambivalence surrounding material culture. Eugene Thacker - Occultural Studies 1.0: Black Metal


We have such a linear way of apprehending experimentation via genre cross-pollination, a historical way. This begat that begat this etc ad nauseam. The problem with this is that sub genres aren't "invented" or created through simple interaction with a linear set of influences, but through actively coordinating a set of infinitely interactive and connective units and assemblages made from emotional states, intensities of feeling, cultural and subcultural references and influences.


a nonsovereignty  yes, divinely impure, of course…..but the void is already filled with black. The void fills US with black. The void reaches out and infects us. 

zentropy

Karatani writes, "the 'will to construct a solid edifice' ultimately does not achieve a foundation but reveals instead the very absence of its own foundation."

we
build structures in order to avoid decay
while consigning talk of decay to radical quarters

to undertake process with the foresight of decay-lien tunnelling-vision is to find that structural integrity is not found in foundations but in flexibility and that self and no-self are not places or objects, but floating signifiers and "it must be noted that the floating signifier or zero-sign guarantees the structurality of the structure and, thus, exists merely as a proxy for God or the transcendental ego." Karatani again, echoing Nishitani's assertion that a nihilist attitude is, along with zen practice, a necessary step to the "standpoint" of sunyata, "emptiness." In this Nothing-beyond-nothings one ecstatically and spontaneously acts for the welfare of all, overcoming even nihilism.

groundlessly involuting the will to power into
a will-to-not-intersect.
a will-to-not-interject.
a will-to-not-attempt-to-perfect-that-which-is-already-always-perfect.
to put down the struggle-with-self (as object) and do it (as process)

only in the ever shifting sands of sunyata
the wandering waveform of the watercourse
can one find the overcoming of nihility.
even cosmic pessimism betrays its hope that in death, the nausea will cease.

One Principle of Non-Intersection, among Many:
the clear-seeing Buddha is the darkest Buddha
no demons can penetrate the gateless-gate.
willful gain only fuels and attracts demons from without.
Self-Empty of all formation, penetrating through the unborn mind of zen, is the only sure Zazen regardless of its position
such a no-position of Mind is the Right Penetration into the imageless-abode.
Zazen is not right posture alone.

sitzfleisch: the ability to endure or persist in an endeavour through sedentary determination; to win by sitting on your ass.

when one realizes the opponent is no opponent but the self-itself, the challenge has been made. sitting like a stone-statue dares the demons to attack as much as incessantly reciting a scripture passage with a weak intent to shield against such demonic assaults. The demon will only adapt itself to the tempo of the chant or begin to slowly chisel its way through cement-strength zazen. Only the Clear Light of Mind produces true protection and forms the Right Seat that transcends analytical thought.

"Clearly seeing into one’s nature is called practice, and the seat that puts an end to analytical thoughts is called Zazen. When analytical thoughts are forgotten, views based on knowledge are also forgotten, leaving no trace of ego. The path where heavenly beings fulfill their desire to offer flowers no longer exists. There is no gate through which demons and heretics can secretly enter. What medal incantation can compare with this?" -Bassui Zen

time is a flat circle : how many faces do you have?

Radically destabilising the notion of I

Destabilising the foundational rationale of I

Decentering the stabilising notion of the radical eye

Foundationally centering the notion of stabilising radicality

Fundamentally fracturing the notion of stable center, radicalize

Radical unfounded 

center eye stability

Give rise to 

confoundational 

denotional 

devotionals, 

radical stability,

fractal centering, 

ratio destabilisers,

 

eye-erarchy, 

higher-archy, 

circle-splittings and 

rhyme spittings

I am that i am Not so We can Be