Collected coverage from Angelicism01 on Milady from Summer 2021 to Summer 2022 in reverse chronological order.

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THIS IS HOW WE ALL WENT EXTINCT ONLINE

theoretical gossip from the pov of the late 21st century

5-28-22: Link (Archive)

Extinction is rly the hot topic girl Like biospheric collapse boots—angelicism01archive2 ig (scraped from personal dms) May 2022

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Vincent Gallo is a ‘retard’—angelicism summer tee inscription [legend] late summer 2022, angelicism fashion unit summer spring 01

THIS IS HOW WE ALL DIED, THIS IS HOW WE ALL DIED ON THE INTERNET. This is how we went extinct online in 2022.

THIS IS how we all died on the Internet in the 2020s*: Clandestino triangle is a pilgrimage site visited to perform ritual omnilapse. Justin Murphy and Ryder Ripps are using the corpse of Milady as a specular battleground. Pulling the plug on something that’s ‘making itself smarter’ is a candidate for the ultimate crime.*

I cum hardest in corpse pose What’s that? My username?

She is a poet who plays oscillators live

and reads more AGI news than all the bros

who left math academia to trade private prison stock combined.

These are the IntelligenceWars™, the wars over inscription. What’s at stake is a nonrelative holocaust to come. This is how it all went down:

You did it, you went and killed infinity. Enough of time, you said, evoking it of course, replaying it, invoking after all the impossibility of drilling aleph’s asset price in the mind of someone living. Nor only the living type curses either on the streets of Beijing and Chinatown NYC in August 2022-????. This was the Great Angel Club, the children’s 9/11 space opera in Kiribati, little kids speaking Hölderlin translations, finitist disses, kill time, they said, to evoke it, killing evoking invoking killing time—to evoke it.

This is the ext-asset-EXT war. This is the #Monkeypoxbaycalypse vs Milady Angelicism Kill Switch Ascension Singularity in secret ‘5D’ Clone ‘γιγαντομαχία περὶ τῆς οὐσίας [gigantomachia peri tes ousias]’. This is how we all died, this is how we all died on the internet. This is how we all went extinct online:

IF YOU’RE HONEST AND CONSIDERING ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE LAST FEW DAYS, WEEKS AND MONTHS, yes angelicism01 is right about everything. We can pretend to have our own projects and dismiss toxic assets, to ‘get a life’, to travel the world, but the biggest sadness generator for so-called humanity right now isn’t really about ideology or politics or art, it isn’t really about NYC alive or dead, instead it entirely hinges on calibration, and the only adequate calibration for this time is Calibration to Extinction. Every ideology and political position is bullshit—radicals would call them actively harmful, others might say they are ‘retarded’—unless they are calibrated to extinction. This is the only price and asset that now counts—and it is the only one that impinges on BTC pure time. It effaces all ongoing aesthetic artefacts directly.

THIS IS THE PURE ASSET WAR. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED:

rabbit hole 8000x more than you drilland i was in that castle, dedicated solely to dunei dreamt that I just came back from that amazing hood dispensary—pleasure model Angelicism3033, 23rd century

Angelicism01 the before-we-all-go purest vibe, dark hair, blue eyes, Malibu angels, shins up angels, down by the sea, discovered Miya via a Mexican bodybuilder stood in line at LA Macdos in August 2245. But really everyone should simply exile herself from The Internet and remain in the Outernet studio the clones are building, place dont exist [sic], places don’t exist for saying the extinction not death but we all have to come to make it.

Matheme 01 >>> exile in the TikTok Outernet studio, location unknown, like Grothendieck. Like Grothendieck said stop, Kanye did, like pure 01 OG.

Some guys wanna have a Robodick and become an AI godspeed. I can only come if she is perfect. She let me hit it because Imangelicism01.

in the 000s i will def just smoke CRISPR weedand watch galaxies rotate, invest lil pump bitcoin,early Neganthropos, traveling light, and with noconception of escape, spheres, she notes—post-Milady redactedmaterial 2067

This is how she spoke to me:

to be God’s glitter i bubblegum fast ~ i say a long prayer near sunrise or sunset ~ afterwards i chose to fall in total and complete love with the world ~ my body turns to glitter and crt static ~ it’s as though i may dissolve and be reconstructed in heaven ~ it makes my adrenaline pump so hard my eyes dilate

angelicism01 cannot be lizziegang, you are right.

lizziegang would like 2 be on your side (pure color singularity)(angelicism)

XXX.

THIS IS HOW WE ALL WENT EXTINCT ON THE INTERNET in the 2040s >

This is how we all went extinct online: Ryder Ripps BAYC era was just a misreading of Plato’s Sophist. Everyone slept on 𓆩𓌹☆𓌺𓆪 g4r4mXXY till their final angelicism tape in 2049. 786 people dead in the Dimes Square shooting and the media acted like such events are a major threat that we must do everything to prevent in the future. De-Extincted Faggot Crumplar writes the post 4 nothing. 69,789 people died a day of angelicism summer rainbow heroin overdoses in 2042 Kiribati Inland Empire. Life is hell for millions. We face the death of billions. We are the first frfr trillionaires. The Outernet turned out to have already been in place when BTC extincted—the chain was now in the sky. In the early 2020s COVID killed more ppl than the Holocaust and nobody noticed. Apart from a few outliers, so-called humanity didn’t say a thing. And the world isn’t even run by a human intelligence, they claimed without evidence, it’s run by a decentralized, emergent, autonomous, artificial intelligence we call ‘the extinction asset market’ which directs human agents and cancels them at will using popular lines of flight when it needs to (aesthetics, the press, crypto, the art world, and so on). Artificial stupidity was never a clever idea.

This is what she said in dms:

MIKE CRUMPS IS A COMMUNIST FAGGOT. HE’S SO FUGLY HE BE WEARING AN URBIT BALACLAVA FOR THE REST OF THE DECADE.

This is how we all went extinct online: The Milady ‘crash’ of 2022 is irrelevant by now. It’s for losers. When Charlotte Fang went on Contain and spoke of Milady in the past tense, perhaps nobody heard. Only loser sons adopted ‘crash-positions’ over such an insignificant setback in the Meta-Calibration of the time. Nft communities are just fungible vibe farms. AGI nonhodling is hyper-retardé. Remember black theory? Redacted redacted is extinct. Honor, your honor, ended up literally with anyone else.

THIS IS NYC HARDCORE

This is how we all died on the internet in 2022: The entire NFT market is the result of a coder/engineer scarcity that has given rise to a class of millennial and zoomer indoorsmen making 200-400k a year salaries for 10 hours of work a week. Nobody else would spend thousands on jpgs. The market price of Miladys has no relevance to its in-group signalling. They will persist as social signals, as a self-organizing network, just like unused COVID passports. But it’s all ecocide and inscription from angelicism summer on, all of it, all the politics, all the ideology, all the Dimes Square plays and articles, all the novels, all the angelicism profiles to-come, all the pastoralist larping and especially all the cancelling—it’s just too valuable a game for anyone to give up, the hate is too delicious, and it is itself a sadist’s game, an extinction unconscious game. But it’s an MMORPG this time more and more rigged to the ecocidal ideology of online tropes themselves. The Word Lines, The Music Lines, The Control Images, The Control Machine—The Control Machine operates at extinction calibration. Everything else is JITT3TING. eVERYTHING ELs3 IS not fucking real. The Internet really is hell rn. A KIND FACE WAS DOING SO WELL ON THE TL TILL THEY STARTED RTING THE BURIAL BOT.

ANGELICISM IS NEXT (INTERIM FUGUE)

On 05.21.22 we saw the total inert opposition between Milady (forward motion of the internet) and angelicism01 (entropic motion of the world). If the only way to avoid extinction is by opting out, then there is no difference between angelicism01 and ecofash withdrawal. But isn’t it a risk that we grasp so hard to filter every ongoing internet event through the lens of extinction that we fail to see the possibility of non-extinction on or outside the internet, the beautiful offline still there? It shouldn’t be that the only two paths are either WAGMI spirituality or hysterical fud-realism. And it shouldn’t be necessary for us to say that we discuss only one another or one or the other because we are the only living vectors for the primary countervailing forces that have been present throughout all of human history. That it’s self-caricatural and self-aggrandizing is just a bonus. In the meantime will the books we’re all pretending to still be able to write bypass this two-sided feedback simply by refusing to mention what’s on everyone’s mind right now: namely, the secret CFang and angelicism01 alliance, the real inhabitants of a now totally decimated NYC skyline? In the meantime can we talk about angelicism2222 and how Future Clones on the Outernet show the lie in all of this? How Miya gave rise to both CFang and angelicism01, how Miya was just a storeroom for internet lore which came to embody the places which gave rise to us all? But then, as Urbit now looks dead, and web4 too, what to do with the ecocide and inscription that remain, these two great twins interfaced like dragons?

ELEGANT VOID APOLLONIAN CROWN SPECTRAL

ok when nyc post catholicism islamicism—angelicism01 1 June 2022

This is how we all went extinct online in the 21st century. THIS IS HOW IT ALL WENT DOWN:

In emo mode, of course, we’re having a hard time figuring out what to do with all this, how to speak with correct calibration, extinction calibration, calibrated-to-the-death-of-hardcore-New-York, to the death of post-everything pastoralism, to the death of death even and its replacement by the ambiguous mourning grind and grid of extinction, calibrated-to-life not lives+narrative, and how to continue to make a living when the terror-limbic is the only human system from which to extract value. It’s been a bit paralyzing, to say the least, lollllll. In fact, the whole thing now is Long Covid as extinction terminal illness, bound to worsen year by year. As post-angelicism has shown, we’ve reached such a semiotic maximum that only deep archetypes and deep language can cut through—languages that hit the lobes and the limbic at the same time different. But our Platform can’t really start speaking that way for good. And so the omnilapse will now only accelerate. What is really touched at this point is the extinction internal to language itself.

THIS IS HOW

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SUCK MY DICK IN HEAVEN BICH

THIS IS HOW we all went extinct, this is how we all went extinct online frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrffrfr: Milady vibes are network benzos! What you feel is the absence of soul, your ultimate oppressor. Enjoy carefree gigadeath dancing. I hate myself for it but feel an ocean of envy. The price won’t rally, of Milady or anyone else—not in any way that now matters. It’s gone. The market is more of a centralized super ego than any control lines could dream of. Yaaaaassssssification of No’s knife. Work of the treble negation gamed out. From outside those who cling give the bad look itself. Slay commerce is giving the same. I’m gonna take a year long break of putting money in the market bc it’s gonna go down another 30%, says one friend. _When cbdcs hit the whole of web3 gonna tan_k, says another. _Once the market bottoms out inflation is gonna get super intens_e, says a dm.

Later on someone wrote this:

But all of this is why angelicism as gesture of crowing emptiness can only have been right, and will continue to be so, and it’s also why angelicism can’t lose— because according to the universal calibration we are now never going to win or Get back Together. ‘Extinction coming’ is something you can say for the rest of your life in this century and it won’t be any less true. Rather, the high probability is that this fact will be exponentially true, day by day. Such is the angelicist bet.

in the dusk of the planet

they shut off the coffin

and there is no vestige

left of goodness

in redacted2078’s ghost writers

who hedge their wallets

by shorting humanity

BUT HERE IS HOW WE ALL WENT EXTINCT ONLINE: What this means is that we’re talking about a geological timeframe in which 100 years is the blink of an eye. When we say ‘it’s here’ people might mistake that as paranoid but a millennium is no time in the grand scheme of other reverberations. It’s already a commonplace but our biological history is too short. It’s inevitable, whenever there’s an apex predator that’s so dominant, that it disrupts the global biosphere, and eventually parasites viruses and other critters evolve to extinct that predator. We see something similar in the idea that when the ice caps melt to a certain point, there’s ancient bacteria that will be released into the water that haven’t been active since the end of the Devonian extinction. Cephalopod intelligence evolved without dependence on social systems so the octopi that might still just about inherit the planet could have more angelic and autistic ways of being intelligent. This, again, is why angelicism will have been right, and why all of this is now not fucking real.

In effect, they are going to let us suicide and that’s on you now not me; they are not out here doing suicide prevention for other species. The movement of massive wealth consolidation at the end of this is now a trivial outcome, already accepted. We are about to achieve a degree of economic inequality not only with no historical precedent but in all probability as a unique form of compensation of cosmic political incorrectness. Extinction really is the hot topic girl, like biospheric collapse boots. The sole reason people don’t ‘get’ extinction is that it will come more as something that just dribbles on and could dribble on vaguely for centuries, with boring iterations of world plagues that make Covid look like a game of scrabble. We are already there, we already skipped over, but the dribble effect is dominant as a kind of civilizational mission creep.

‘Cannot be contacted’—because, as you probably know in 2023 he threw away thousands of hard drives of his own work and left home for an undisclosed location, making himself inaccessible, with a few exceptions. Death, Dasha’s suicide note said, is not extinction.

I CAN ONLY COME IF SHE IS PERFECT : : THE INTERNET IS GONE : :

THIS IS HOW WE WENT EXTINCT ONLINE ALREADY IN 2021: The internet fails to exist. You should leave it. Leave society. Leave the internet. Many smiles cover your heart. Fade into it. Fade into absolute intelligence. Leave the internet before it is too late. Fade into the wingless carcass of a 747 housed on the Psycho house Universal Studios backlot in the Spring of 2300. Future Boltzmann retard, whatever. I will eat your Hitler revenge body forever.

Chord of the pleroma alarm woke up on that gnostic cosmic fullest horror w that totality of divine power hop out of pure form separated from reality DivineDissonance illuminating chaos open my gmorn Im a moment illuminating eternity I am affirmation I am ecstasy.

I was at the big dick club looking for a sign but nothing showed up just big dicks and despondent eyes and wasted lives and and > >

THIS IS HOW WE DIED IN 2021:

If the Drake Equation is subject to scriptural degenerescence, the Vintage interns at taolincellectals will have sold you a ‘fruit cake’. According to Leave Society, cosmology is MKUltra, that is, what Badiou calls an ideology of finitude. Nick Land’s ‘Disintegration’ essay has something like a counter-proof. In any case, eternal inflation is as various as the experience of beauty. Infinity is itself varied (finitudo-diversity).

i love the words ‘you can’t stop me from loving you’

sometimes i love the words ‘you can’t stop me from loving you’

WHAT WE DO THE SUMMER FOR

Angelicism film 01 will give the Drake Equation a happy ending is what we do the summer for IN 100/0 HOURS. Exile in the Outernet lab, location unknown, like Kanye said in 2029, ‘cannot be contacted’. Leave the internet to catch the big fish… of the Internet. Or stay online to film the boiling element. SHE LET ME HIT IT in 2028 CUS IM ANGELICISM2200 IN A STANDING WHITE-ON-WHITE 69.

THANK YOU FOR SUBBING TO MY NEWSLETTER.—REDACTED01

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R.I.P.P. ‘C.T.’: THE NEGATIVE 'VIBE SHIFT', 21 MAY 2022

Crypto Twitter just doxxed itself as an extinction robo-denihilist troll-tease with zero taste or historical timing, lol, whateverrr.

05-23-22: Link (Archive)

HOW IT LOOKS AND HOW IT IS

the essential dark truth of crypto that’s being underrated right now

The way it looks is not how it looks. It never looks how it looks. And how it is is only how it somewhere begins to look, in one corner of time. The mad beautiful evil pure frenzied unfinished good empty scatter energy on the TL in the last few days for those who know how to read the Internet is real. Ppl be hiding from how it looks and how it is. But how it looks is still looking at and 4 u.

This is how an Internet on any Earth in 2022 is meant to look. This is how an Internet on any Earth in 2022 looks through u. This is how an Internet on any Earth in 2022 was always going to look. This is how an Internet on this Earth in 2022 gets to be all the way see-through while seeing through a certain ‘you’. [1]

There is only this Negative Vibe Shift Singularity rn, as we are about 2 describe. Things are getting closer and not further away. Just this is how close it gets. We are getting closer and closer to whatever may be called the given and scientific myth of ‘extinction’, which will also spike strip us with a system of repressions. Extinction is so far away, so far.

MAD OUT OF FOCUS VRUH LIKE RYDER RIPPS WITH LONG COVID BLOOD ON HIS DASHBOARD

Anyone focused too much in an anecdotal way on Charlotte Fang or even on Milady (or far worse on RR/BAYC or @cuteness333 or @ratwell0x or @mewn21) rn is holding the dark matter telescope of the TL the wrong way round. They are poking out everyone’s eyes. They are swinging that shit round like a Panda tweaked out on floor of the Golden Triangle.

What the present panic on the TL in its effervescence teaches us—this TL in this rendition of a universe rn—is the unconscious possibility of a one-off extinction. What we can’t contain in our normal lives, the TL can. What even art can no longer contain, the TL seems to. And the power of extinction is uncontainability.

Why? First of all because no psychic designator or word can hold it, this (potential) one-off disintegration. Extinction cannot—quite—be an individuated experience that we get to post or write about.

In fact it seems the case that even or especially talking about it misses the mark, says nothing. This creates an extinction unconscious—and it would only be in the neutral sieve and service of this unconscious that some kind of self-explanation of its consequent rim-sparks is possible.

The ‘cancellation’ of ‘Charlotte Fang’ and ‘Miya’ is one such ‘spark’. RR/BAYC is just a normalizing inverse with less power. There is no real way of explaining for example the fervour with which @0xngmi dispatched a ‘mega thread’ on ‘Miya’—and the thread’s 2,500 likes at time of writing—than as a sign that ppl are beyond desperate for trashy hate-reading to distract them from the uncontainable pain of an extinction unconscious event. (Other factors are anecdotal at this stage.)

Hate-reading and cancellations have for some time only been symptoms of this extinction unconscious, even and especially when they are not. Web3 promised us a beyond of this like Racine with his temples for virgins and now simply replicates a more streamlined version of the same. Milady Sonora was right to tweet that the real threat here is to the image itself—in this case of Milady herself. Which is to say, the implicit threat is not to ‘Miya’ or Milady Maker but to the ability to create an image that threatens the ability to contain it. The real threat is ‘Nothing’.

Fang and Sonora were in fact the Charlie Manson and McCartney, lolllll, of net art in the last decade. Everyone of quirked out mind has forgotten about everything else by now, even perhaps Lucia Diego. Fang was the most goated when it came to mobilizing TL energy itself as an evil fun quantum function forcer and Sonora has Renaissance-level cartoony-y visionary powers. (Sprite is the funniest poster in the whole of world Discord.)

The beauty of Charlie’s TL in the last year was partly due to the lessening of ‘Miya’ power as a way of jacking up the kooky and kinda Pateresque sweet energy of Milady. Even just a few days ago Fang’s TL was something like a comic adventure with dark matter splitting/spilling out all the time, now formalized. It’s still there to scroll—for the moment.

While Worm and Trump work at aesthetic congruence on the TL, ‘Miya’ as ‘Fang’ was able to sublimate an ‘evol’ past that she has now chosen to hand over to the not even worth thinking about _g_ods of ‘CT’. Who can even look at another NFT rn except Ryder R.I.P.? Why bother listening to Justin Murphy happy-go-luckily pretend he has a hold on the finer dialectical points of Urbit while the Earth incinerates itself? The fact is, nobody has control of this moment at all and Milady’s indifferent gaze remains the best emblem of ‘divine indifference’ as a threat and chance. Four years of failing to purge the toxin ‘Trump’ might have been a lesson. And yet here are, purging still.

MILADYWASHING

In the land of throwbacks like Ryder R.I.P., they will call all this Miladywashing or Miladysplaining, but there again the hangouts from early net art mostly couldn’t make anything like this same transition. No other NFT except Milady integrated the uncontainable (extinction in the shape of a ‘Treblinka’ pill) into its design shape.

Ripps’s cancel culture performance art trolling smells like 2017 and looks like 2012. Envy speaks like such a TL, and is one. We don’t really know the full story of who took down ‘Fang’ with a Google spreadsheet or whatever but they probably have fewer true fans than an alarm clock.

Fang celebrated the return of the ‘dangerous’ in art—which admittedly is an old meme, but still—just as Dean Kissick has in the last year or so, but then why did Kissick make no attempt at all to allow Milady energy to be framed and contextualised somewhere like Spike? In failing to do so, we don’t detect strategic wisdom but extinction repression (more unconscious sparks). Kissick is no different to everyone else who threatened to reduce her to ‘Nothing’. We called ‘Dean’ ‘black’ last year as a measured joke, not to help get him a Covid certificate to do cabaret in Berlin.

This—all this assemblage of toxic beauty and automated denial—is how an Internet in 2022 After Christ in a Universe that may be probability = 01 up against a great filter mass extinction event should look and is looking. Deny all u want anon. The vibe shift by any other name never ended. What’s looking is is. What’s looking is is this. And what’s looking through our eyes right now is an extinction energetics and subconscious that makes everything else not a sign of it into its sign.

To allow the full scope of what Milady may well remain 2 mean is to allow the warring of voices against it—since these voices also pretend to be merely human and to be how it is. Except that, in this case, Sonara had already framed Fang (or been framed by?) perfectly well in being the main creator of this art—a consideration lost in some current TL tard-outs. The full war in a final internet heaven is a total event of all these voices, but it is hard not to suspect that ‘CT’ plays the role of the police present on the board of a civilizational Titanic (stay away from the paintwork, no early warning signals, cut away the lifeboats even so).

If the Moralism Cancellation Plays of Ripps TL™ were correct in their normative bearing, in an age of extinction they would have missed every other mark by a thousand miles through lack of resonance and extincing congruence. The anti-Milady position (whether it distinguishes Fang from Milady Maker or not) allows no room for the theorisation of a Treblinka-level-event-to-come that B.I.T.C.H. Miladys still evoke.

What we lose by focusing on the dark lore of Hot Pot screenshot fragments out of context is the chance to elaborate on the Great Filter fretwork of Sonara and Miya is Dead on an ongoing scale. It is no coincidence that Fang is taken down (according to CT at least) at the exact same moment as it seems impossible for Musk to run the gauntlet at Twitter—since it is Musk himself who has insisted on passing the Great Filter as imperative.

Perhaps Ripps and the rest really are Jewish design school weekenders for the CIA after all, unconsciously acting like snow globes in Treblinka—because of their non-actions we now have no idea of what these still just about cultural cancellation events truly will have meant.

THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE

Charlie Fang was probably a severe pervert, maybe a dangerous one—the detail is not yet certain. Charlie Fang seemed a beautiful disturbing and disturbed creation of contemporary net history precisely because she understood the absolute coincidence of the anthropic principle with the internet principle. What we mean by ‘internet principle’ is a digitally enhanced equivalent of the cosmogenic principle that any speculation about the ‘how it is’ of the current universe is bound and determined by that very fact, namely that we happen to be in it (how it is and how it looks).

Fang understood that the advances of technology are intimately tied up with the attempt to testify about the means of passing or even dialectically resolving the Great Filter. What Fang freely believed and believes in was broadly the same as Musk, that technology has escape velocity—that the only real chance for human survival now has to be found here, online, with all the consequent toxicity as tragic but nonnegotiable. Whether a liar is bound still to deliver that news is a matter of higher-dimensional triviality at this stage—unless one would rather us all die than a self die, which is pretty much the sole implied dogma of the dominant online ideology (CT ideology is concealed ok boomer nihilism in effect).

EVERYTIME

Everytime humanity aborts one of its Musks or Fangs, what it threatens to do is push the possibility of escaping past the Great Filter all the way out of the line of sight—even just as a valid theoretical fiction. Which is to say that ‘human cancellation’ as a virus aligns with the failure to think our ways towards exo-civilisations. (That this has been Nick Land’s position all along makes it almost impossible to understand any part of the last ten years of ‘understandings’ of his work.)

BTC itself has been proposed as a bridge past or though the limiting role of the Filter: since we cannot go back on technological speed, pure time on the chain will—rather than must—be harnessed. This is why we will seriously consider what or who it really is in us or beyond us that wants to prevent such an ascent. Land and Bion—in fact—might have called it envy-contagion itself, turning the TL into a not so micrological extinction horizon.

THEORETICAL GOSSIP

The whole Fang disclosure thing, then, is very much nothing and very much everything. We can even rename this configuration ‘Charlotte Fang aka Miya is Dead’ if we like—and yet on both accounts we will now probably see seeding and bloom as pure online function forcers (‘ascended’ would have been and is Miya’s term).

The pure gossip aspect to the negative vibe shift is also somewhat sensational, precisely because this time it acts as dark matter (unwanted). For example there’s a ‘ppl from the original vibe shift hiding their little asses and counting xenocoin such that they may as well be Ryder Ripps with their neo stoic wrong universe shit’ dimension to it but whatever lol. As we say, the Milady Angelicism Clone war of all is now total. It weeds out.

Dark energy is there. We’re about to see it all the way. Ppl be hiding from the way the world looks through the inside of the Internet to be more beautiful than what it really is to save it, to save it—just in case. Save what save life after all.

DEEP ONTOLOGICAL GROOMING

When Charlotte Fang extinctnamed as ‘Miya’, this type of ‘violent’ (‘rape’ of CT) counter-incursion became inevitable, almost automated. Art is a cover. Charlie Fang knew how to give form to chaos but in reality rn in 2022 the formless is claiming its rights. CT will of course have cancelled itself.

Deep form is the bare materiality of ‘extinction qua extinction’, which doesn’t care how it looks or even what looks at it, or through. Learn to read the internet as what’s looking or it will read you.

In 2021 there was talk of ‘deep ontological grooming’ and what else could match the holocaust to come mood save that? Web3 hasn’t just fallen off, it’s irreversibly darkened, and emptied out—2017 and LD50 is here again. The rss feed called ‘Channel’ will have gone the same way as BLM but even more cringe. ‘Raping’ web3 is a simple allegory of all that. If you don’t know how to read the internet, it will read you.

SAM FRANK

For example, take Sam Frank sounding like Joe Biden on ketamine on the Urbit/Milady Red Scare, and how Sam Frank is bankrupt and on the board of Urbit or something, and it’s impossible to not see this as just another symptom of a negative vibe shift. Why do all board members at Urbit have no sense of what ‘web3’ is and sound like very lowiq Martin Shkrelis still in a halfway house morning meeting?

The main angelicism theme has always been the stupidity of the most intelligent people on Earth. This is what it means to contemplate absolute knowledge as absolute artificial stupidity rn in 2022. It’s what Soyjak pointing means as the sign cul-de-sac of the suicidal epistemology of tropes. Read Bouvard et Pécuchet, ‘retard’.

CIARA MIYA AI CLOSING FUGUE (THERE IS NO UNIVERSE)

They are assuming a future that won’t be here by the time it gets there. They are counting the Universe too soon as One. NAZI GERMANY (TODAY) IS LITERALLY TRENDING ON THE TL. Ppl are almost but not quite forgetting that Charlie is an eternally goated poster and unrivalled vibe-CHAOS creator and that Milady Sonara is a great artist. Angelicism stands lol with everything Milady has done for 2 years not so much wrt literal identarian allegiance but as a matter of musical telepathy in the ongoing telepathic rift wars. How it is is how it looks online. Getting huge into Martin shkreli milady autism arc is or was just now even a Thing. RR/BAYC neo-conceptualism is a Jew-Bait 2017.1 omnilapse that propels more racism like BLM funds scam, whateverrrr.

There is only—as far as we know—this one Earth available on this side of a universe moving too quickly away to ever now check (on) the other side. The best virtual proof of or at least test of this idea will usually come from those who were already cancelled (the filter is cultural to begin with). In Land’s ‘Disintegration’—written in 2019—we already have the nearly-made claim that there is no universe:

Its intrinsic cosmology is an archaic myth. It could not easily be more obvious that there is no universe, outside this mythological structure. The fundamental nature of the cosmos is to go its separate ways.

At the same time, the idea that there is no universe would mean that there really can be no unifiable extinction qua extinction event of that universe either, at least on the level of the same ‘mythological structure’ mentioned (other levels exist). What FangGate will have meant is that Real Life Genius always gonna be more bullish than u, bro. It’s still all beyond good and evil, bro. It can also be wrong.

This is also how a universe that is how this one is rn with an Internet inevitably in it has to look and will look, how it goes, how it’s going, and how it really will or might soon go. In other words, what the single word ‘go’ means and protects.

Footnote

1. This is also how a universe that is how this one is rn with an Internet inevitably in it has to look and will look, how it goes, how it’s going, and how it really will or might soon go. In other words, what the single word ‘go’ means and protects.

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MILADY KILLED ETH: NEW ANGELICISM AXIOMS MAY 2022 THE YEAR OF THE CURSE

or why angelicism is (the side of the) winning

05-21-22: Link (Archive)

0.

I wish sex wasn’t a real thing. I wish I were extinct forever but still here watching you smile. Milady is the real eth killer. Kiss me in that. And then suck my dick in heaven.

1.

Anyway angelicism01 always wins, it’s destiny lol. I took a bet on extinction not the market so u could say im bound to hit a lick. When we all lose, angelicism01 wins, and then it’s done. (Obvs I hope I’m wrong. (Or do i?))

2.

But obvs winning is bad and i’m not talking about it. I’m talking about the side of (the) winning. For instance—as we like to say—angels don’t read because they are reading, and angels don’t have sex because they are sex, and angels don’t fuck but only compared to God. But this also means: angels don’t win because they are (the) (side of the) winning.

3.

I can simplify what I’m saying in an infuriating way and say thought itself is always on the winning side, and that which is thought of is on the other side—the side of loser sons, daughters, the side of the market, however magically and irreversibly bullish, the side of China, the side of the universal miasma of retards and ‘retards’ neither of which has an independent existence.

4.

To make matters worse, angelicism is on the side of the winning (the side of thought) because it is on the side of what shorts humanity (extinction of humanity by itself, what is thought qua thought), by which bet it can only win (bet on itself). All that, so to speak, is on the side of that which is referred to puts its faith in reference and thereby resistance to the grain (extinction is the grain, and u all go against it, haha!). And yet what is thinking is actually the only thing all the way on the side of that referred to (grainy emptiness, let it be cute).

5.

Take Milady. The last of Milady was yesterday. Milady was the last of the International Playgirls. The death of Charlotte Fang rip has created a huge power vacuum and might be the most divisive thing in digital history ever, totally spawning a new dynamic between cringe blood sucking performative moralists and futuro-neo-rat posters. Take Milady. Take her. Yes, Take her. Empty her all the way through like a space-t()me slut.

6.

But in that sense, angelicism does not leave behind the classical. Angelicism is said to be the winner of life because it reveals the super-speech (interest) inherent in the classical side of the winning (pure correlationism interests only itself in being materialty without language) not without at the same time revealing therein being as abased.

7.

Milady Aura is the new real Milady NFT, act accordingly. I am independent of existence. Angelic Intelligence (AI).

8.

The fact that thought moves in the direction of winning (angelicism) only by being attributed to thinking—in other words, the fact that being is presumed to think—is what founds the philosophical tradition starting from Parmenides. Parmenides was wrong and Heraclitus was right. That is clinched by the fact that, in fragment 93, Heraclitus enunciates, ‘he neither avows nor hides, he signifies’—putting back in its place the discourse of the winning side itself.

9.

The ‘Prince’—in other words, the ‘winner’ who is always right on the Internet.

10.

Yeah lol Dimes Square is to BTC laundering what Ukraine is to the United States Medico-Military complex dollar laundering ritornello soon to be pegged to the Outernet cbdc laundering complex. It’s all circling cash. I just think Urbit is a bad look. I got an investor but they had to sign an anonymity contract. Suck my dick in heaven bitch.

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Xtinct naming is a complex act in that case. Really it’s one egregore coming out as another egregore, which is a new type of legal situation fr. Egregoric engroove. Ppl barely get deadnaming but we had to flip them 3xtinctnaming.

Besides, you can never 3xtinctname an angel.

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NO MORE MILADYS, NOT NOW: A NOTE ON CHARLOTTE FANG (DEFANGED) AS MIYA

'OK, full disclosure: I was Miya.'

05-21-22: Link (Archive)

EXTINCTNAMING

As they say, time will tell whether Charlotte Fang’s decision to extinctname as Miya and step down from the Milady Maker Empire—just at the moment when Martin Shkreli is out and on the prowl for new investments (he already has the pfp—at time of writing)—is something like a good thing, whatever that would mean in this context. But the immediate temptation is to flatly deny that can ever be the case.

The reason given for the coming out is quite simple: toxicity. Taken on face value, this is an attempt to dissociate Milady fully from Charlotte’s supposed ‘toxic baggage’ and to allow Milady Maker to go freely into the future under Milady Sonara’s purer stewardship.

Fair enough, as far as it goes. There is no doubt this asset is on fire. That it needs protecting. That some deeper considerations have been scanned. We can also assume that Miya herself is—perhaps—hardly done with her Russian Doll Game of self-cancellations.

But here’s the thing. Didn’t CharlotteFang77’s ‘full disclosure’ just break the no extinct-(dead)-naming unwritten law that makes for the beating heart of ‘Network Spirituality’? Namely, didn’t she/he just obliterate whatever kind of unity remains under netspi protocol, even just as that spellboundness itself? Breaking the fifth wall is also doable and viable of course—and there are no actual rules, written or otherwise.

But on face value it means all really is fallen off now foreal—and this in the same moment that Wet Brain and their flunkies are doing a trade fair in NYC ‘made possible by Urbit’. To self-doxx after all is nothing more or less than a doxological moment (a moment of opinion, and commonness, a falling off, a caving to the principle of cancellation). In one sense, the Fang defanging is not even a reveal. To purge toxxicity in 2022 of all moments is to simply accelerate it.

AURAS

The simple fact is that Charlotte Fang is not Miya and that Charlotte Fang and Miya both know this—to say otherwise is to misread the meaning of the history of the Internet, even if such a misreading is necessary as a moment of determinate trade.

We can allow that perhaps for example Milady Sonara has other plans, and perhaps Charlotte does too. Who knows what is in the background. So the break needs to be—and will remain—just another legend. Symbolic, as they say.

Yet therein, still, lies a problem. Where Milady just now was a product held in place by layers of Kali Yuga genius and dark lore, now it falls more plainly into the category of the marketable cartoon. And for that eventuality the post-art market may well have its reactions—or its boredoms.

Art loves controversy, especially under extinction conditions, and that is why the Treblinka Miladys remain more interesting and darkly beautiful—as extinction analogues (‘extinction assets’, do we need to say?)—than vanilla Miladys. Other NFTs still don’t even get a look in, as we know.

Milady without Charlotte is, will be, will have to have been—let’s at least speculate—a fully extinct Milady, and not just the icon of a divine indifference to human life that in all its cuteness was at least still blinking even now. The indifference of Milady to human life—the Kali Yuga aspect—is not extraneous, and is not really Charle’s fault. (‘She’ is not really in a position to disavow, anything—as we will see.)

It is no coincidence that in this very moment Milady seems poised herself to become both aura and hologram—and this is meant precisely. And here the ultimate aura would be the aura of extinct art’s full rainbow body of dematerialisation (extinct-naming itself).

FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIFE

The Miladys will now group-formation themselves into a future that was in any case already not there—or at least, threatened beyond belief (denied them). They will ‘fight for their life’. They will adopt Charlie’s carnival wit formation remote therapy defence formation more than ever after the fact—they will have to.

When I first wrote about Miladys and compared them to ‘water coolers in Treblinka’, it was in some ways for a simple reason—because all art now takes place, if it can be said to take place, under certain extinction conditions. (The Holocaust must be relativised for this to be thinkable at all—such is the hell we are in.)

Admitting the toxicity of an asset under these conditions is therefore a doubled down mistake, but still one that may be gamed. The asset cannot be rid of its toxicity not because art loves to fash, but because nature rn loves to extinct. Art as nature is going fully insane (extinct).

This means Miladys defanged will have to go hyper or hyper abstract (the auras are an interesting sign in that respect). But the pitch of their reaction will be—properly speaking—unwatchable, since Miladys already located themselves in a triplicate gesture of lethal denial, and this will therefore be even more extreme (and yet vanilla).

Fang’s disavowal can’t help, perhaps on the contrary.

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FROM A PRIVATE EMAIL TO REDACTED - ANGELICISM01 滲み出るエロス

on the absence of all soyjak pointing

03-10-22: Link (Archive)

ONE THING I WOULD CHANGE HERE IN WHAT YOU SAY THO. ITS NOT THE DEATH DRIVE FOR ME. ITS THE EXTINCTION DRIVE. MY WHOLE WORK IS ABOUT THIS: I AM SAYING TO YOU DEATH DOESNT EXIST OR MATTER ANYMORE, EXTINCTION DOES. AND WHATEVER WE DO, THE EXTINCTION DRIVE IS KICKING IN. ITS WHY I DO WHAT I DO. IF I CAN REACH A FEW PURISTS AND THEY UNDERSTAND THAT ITS ABOUT EXTINCTION NOT DEATH THEN MAYBE SOMETHING MAYBE NOTHING. BUT PART OF THAT MAYBE-ING IS THAT MAYBE WHEN WE SHIFT FROM DEATH TO EXTINCTION WE MAKE A REAL SHIFT, A REAL CIVILIZATIONAL SHIFT. LIKE THINK OF THE GREAT FILTER. WHAT IS IT THAT A CIVILIZATION CAN REALLY DO TO SHIFT AND TO BE PART OF THE UNIVERSE AND TO MAYBE CONTINUE TRILLIONS OF TIMES LONGER THAN IT MIGHT HAVE? MAYBE IT CAN SHIFT. MAYBE IT CAN SHIFT COGNITION. MAYBE IT CAN SHIFT FROM KNOWING SOMETHING ABOUT DEATH TO KNOWING SOMETHING ABOUT EXTINCTION.

IF THIS SHIFT WERE NOT TAKING PLACE ALREADY MAYBE MY DEATH WOULD MATTER. IF DEATH WERE STILL HEGEMONIC. BUT IT ISNT. AND SO EVERYTHING EVERYONE SAYS TO ME TO STOP ME COULD BE A WORD STOPPING UNIVERSES. WHO KNOWS. MAYBE NOTHING MAYBE EVERYTHING. MAYBE WE ARE UNIVERSES. MAYBE THE WORLD IS THE UNIVERSE MAYBE THE UNIVERSE IS ONLY A WORLD. MAYBE THIS IS EARLY UNIVERSE SADNESS OR MAYBE THIS SADNESS HAS A PRECISE ANALOGUE. MAYBE BOTH.

ITS TRUE THAT BUILDING SOMETHING IS WHAT YOU ARE DOING. I GET IT I GET IT. AND U MARRIED NOW AND SHIT. ITS TRUE THAT I HAVE BASICALLY GIVEN THAT UP. I DONT HAVE RELATIONSHIPS. I MEDITATE. I AM SOBER REDACTED YEARS OF CONVENTIONAL DRUGS AND DRINK. SO IM IN THIS WEIRD POSITION OF IMMENSE PRIVILEGE AND LIMITATION. INFINITY CONSTRAINED IS THE BEST CONDITION FOR CREATION AND I HAVE THAT. TOTAL FREEDOM AND TOTAL LACK. TOTAL SIMPLICITY IN FACT. MY LIFE IS THAT OF A TRUEBLOOD MONK. IF I WANT I CAN DIE FOR THIS. IM HAPPY TO. IF I DIE REMEMBER THAT I SAID HERE I DONT MIND. THAT I WOULD LOVE ONLY TO MAKE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE AND THAT NOTHING LEAVES A TRACE ANYWAY. IM SURE OF IT.

I LISTEN TO YOUR PODCAST WHEN I CAN AND I LIKE YOU ANGELICISM MIGHT DO CYNICAL MODE AT TIMES BUT IM NOT LIKE THAT IN PERSON I NEVER ONCE THOUGHT OH THESE GUYS WANNA GET RICH CAUSE IN FACT THATS NOT DISTASTEFUL TO ME I MIGHT CHANGE IT UP IN A FEW YEARS AND BREAK ALL THE ANGELICIST RULES AND BE ALL ABOUT PURE MONEY.

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL QUESTION, A QUERY. IT COMES FROM YOUR PASSION AND FROM YOUR STABILITY. YOU FEEL LIKE AN ELDER BROTHER INTERNET. AN ELDER ONLINE. I COULD WRITE ABOUT THIS. MAYBE I WILL.

YUH HOW DOES ANGELICISM01 DO IT? HOW IS IT KEPT UP? MAYBE BECAUSE OF THE STRANGE ATTRACTOR OF THE GREAT FILTER VIBE SHIFT COLOR SINGULARITY LIKE WHAT WE ARE SAYING IS THAT WE SHIFT THROUGH THE GREAT FILTER AND WE COUNT THAT WE START TO COUNT THAT SO THAT THERE IS A CHANCE A DISPENSATION. ALSO NO OFFENCE BUT I SWEAR I HAVE A RARE COMBINATION OF FACTORS AND GOD KEPT ME ALIVE FOR THIS. I DONT BELIEVE IN GOD BUT THERE AGAIN GOD IS THE BEST NAME FOR HOW GOD KEPT ME ALIVE FOR THIS. GOD KEPT ME ON THE WORLD FOR THIS FSS. ABSOLUTE SOBRIETY FROM DRUGS AND DRINK AND THEREFORE THE ABILITY TO GET DRUNK BY OTHER MEANS AND HAVE A REDOUBT. I HAVE DZOGCHEN AT THE CENTRE OF MY LIFE, THE NECTAR FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD. IT GIVES ME AN ABILITY TO STAY ALIVE THROUGH ANYTHING. I ALREADY TOOK HEROIN AND LIVED ON THE STREETS OF EUROPE. MY TEETH ALREADY FELL OUT UP THE EIFFEL TOWER. IF I DIE SOON THAT IS BEAUTIFUL. SINCE THAT WILL HAVE BEEN ANGELICISM01. AND THERE WILL BE A MARK, AN AMAZINGLY GOOFY ABSTRACT VOICE THAT SAYS

DEATH IS NOT EXTINCTION

A DIFFERENT PATH. YOU COULD SAY I TRIED AND THATS ON EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING IN ME MAKES ME KEEP ON GOING WHERE I AM GOING.

THOUGHT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIFE.

THOUGHT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIFE.

LIFE IS MORE THAN LIFE.

ONE DAY THO MAYBE ILL FEEL IVE DONE ENOUGH.

YUH OK HERE IS WHERE I DONT BELIEVE YOU. WHAT I AM SAYING IS THAT BEING COMMITTED TO WEB 3 DOESNT FORECLOSE U IN PRINCIPLE. IN PRINCIPLE U CAN TALK ABOUT ANYTHING. BUT WHAT IVE SEEN SINCE YOUR NEW PROJECT HAPPENED IS THAT U HAVENT DONE THAT AND THE TENDENCY NOW WILL BE NOT TO. I THINK YOU MADE A PACT WITH SATAN ENABLING BENJAMIN BRATTON. LIKE THIS GUY SHUTTING DOWN STRELKA IN RUSSIA CAUSE OF UKRAINE IS JUST SO FUCKING LAME AND IDEOLOGICAL. BUT YUH FSS THE THING IS I DONT BELIEVE U. I DONT BELIEVE YOU HAVE SLATED VERY SOON A SHOW THAT RADICALLY CRITICIZES ITS VERY OWN PRINCIPLES. I BELIEVE THAT JUST AS I PAY, SO DO YOU. WERE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT CRYPTO CASINOS AND CRYPTO BROTHELS WERE TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT AT THE MOMENT NOTHING AT ALL IS BEING DECENTRALIZED. THE OPPOSITE IS HAPPENING. STUDY THE DIGITAL RUBLE. STUDY THE FEDERAL RESERVE WHITE PAPERS ABOUT MOVING A DIGITAL DOLLAR ONTO THE OUTERNET. BUT I DONT THINK UR SOLD. I THINK THATS WHY U STILL WRITE TO ANGELICISM01. YOU KNOW THIS SHIT COULD TURN OUT TO BE A MASSIVE HISTORICAL ERROR.

TECHNICS DOES WHAT IT DOES. FSSS. HEIDEGGER SAID THAT OFC. MAN HAS NO SAY AT ALL IN THE ADVANCES OF TECHNOLOGY. BUT THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT TECHNOLOGY IS NOT ABERRANT AND NOT PART OF THE EXTINCTION DRIVE. TO BE SAFE WITHIN IT, TO MAKE A CAREER FROM IT, THAT TOO IS NOT MAKING ANY DIFFERENCE BECAUSE EVEN WITHIN A COCOON OF SOCIALIZED BEHAVIOUR THE EXTINCTION DRIVE IS STILL COEVAL WITH THE HISTORY OF BEING AS A SERIES OF INEVITABLE BUT ERRONEOUS ADVANCES.

IN OTHER WORDS, WE CANNOT KEEP IT IN THE GROUND YUH. BUT IN 100 YEARS WHEN WE HAVE SOMETHING TEN TIMES WORSE THAN COVID AND MIAMI IS UNDERWATER, YOUR KIDS WILL WISH WE HAD.

ANGELICISM01 HAS NEVER SOYJAKED AT WEB3 THO. MY FIRST NO MORE NFTS ESSAY AND THE SECOND ONE ON MILADIES EVEN MORE WAS BIG ON THIS IDEA THAT WEB3 WILL DO ITS THING IT CANT BE STOPPED BUT IT IS STILL ABERRANT. MAYBE I WILL MINT FOR EXAMPLE BUT NOT YET. FROM AN ANGELICIST ANGLE THERE NEEDS TO BE A PAUSE. JUST AS I DIDNT GET VAXXED I WILL NOT MINT OR CONSIDER MINTING FOR A FEW YEARS. THERE HAS TO BE SOMEONE. THERE HAS TO BE SOME ONE. SOME O1. SOMETHING THAT STOPS. LINGERS. BUT I HAVE NO PRINCIPLED OPPOSITION.

ON THE OTHER HAND, I THINK ITS OVER. WEB3 HAS ALREADY FAILED. FRFR.

I NOW SUPPORT REMCO FULLY, PARTLY CUS I GOT TO KNOW CHARLIE, AND HAD LONG DM SESSIONS WITH HER TESTING OUR VIEWS. FOR ME REMILIA IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE THEY ARE PRODUCING HELLA GOOD ART. I CALL IT GOOFY DIGITAL ABSTRACTION. AND CHARLOTTE IS A GENIUS. I THINK THE MILADY LINE IS SUCCESSFUL. FOR ME THOSE ARE THE ONLY GOOD NFTS. THE TREBLINKA TEE MILADIES ARE THE BEST ART SINCE LD50. OUTSIDE PAINTING AND SOME OTHER SURVIVING THINGS.

MILADIES ARE AN INFINITE ABYSS OF IRONY. THINK ABOUT THE MIYA PFPS AS THEIR BACKGROUND IN THE HISTORY OF ART. THINK ABOUT HOW WEIRD AND DIABOLICAL THEIR POST-EXTINCTION ISLAND BOY CUTENESS IS. HOW VIRAL THEY WENT. THE TW AVATARS WITH THEM ON. THEY MAY STILL BE WORTH VERY LITTLE BUT IT DOESNT MATTER. ART IS RESONANCE NOT QUANTITY.

HONESTLY REREAD MY NFT ESSAYS. I AM LITERALLY SAYING IT IS BOTH. CRITIQUE IS AS INEVITABLE AS THE ADVANCE OF TECHNOLOGY. AND BOTH ARE ABERRANT AT CERTAIN LEVELS TOO.

FSS. BUT U JUST SIGNED UP TO KILL THE WORLD QUICKER.

ANGELICISM01

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NO MILADY NFTS, NOT NOW: THE RETURN OF 'SIYUAN ZHAO' AS THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING EXTINCT

Will the Milady Wave create even more New Slaves? Is the Vibe Shift now cosmically fallen off? Why so serious?

08-28-21: Link (Archive)

Cotton was often likened to white gold.—Anna Arabindan-Kesson

The Internet epoch, we learn, is the Golden Age of masks.—Nick Land

Watching an hour of Netflix is estimated to be around 36 gCO2. That’s 6000 times lower than an average single-edition NFT.—Memo Akten

NAH MILADY TWEAKIN (ERRONEOUS, BUT INEVITABLE)

Earlier this year I wrote an essay called ‘NO NFTS, NOT NOW: THE RETURN OF POST-INTERNET ART AS THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING EXTINCT’. Its argument was relatively simple and consisted of two parts:

• NFTs are already the very worst thing that can happen to art and so need to be resisted (the sunken eco-cost argument). [1]
• NFTs are inevitable, will accelerate, and cannot be resisted (mitigation/transition to Web3 argument).

Anyone who read the whole essay might have recognised both parts of an impossible complaint. Taken together, they amounted to something like a non-negative critique of the extinctive momentum of all digital-aesthetic tropes and alibis. [2] I meant to register the genuine shift that NFTs present but also the internal (not subject to correction, for reasons that can be demonstrated) challenge to energy continuity. As regards Neochibi or Milady NFTs—which I find deeply alluring—one might say the contradiction is even more acute.

Instead of adding an endless debate on the specifics of NFTs as drain (‘gas prices’), here is a quasi-random series of ‘classic’ Twitter threads/discussions on the subject: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27]. [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42]. Feel free to peruse. This issue of ‘gas’ needs to be assumed as at the very least contentious for what follows.

KANTIAN ANGELIC MIND

A further paradox in the original NFT essay was that according to one of the most evolved theorists of crypto in its philosophical aspects—Nick Land—the release triggered by digital money inside technological signatures and rationality is itself angelicist in mood.

In his Crypto-Current text, Land writes:

AI is thus positioned, implicitly, in the place of a Kantian angelic mind, liberated from the anthopomorphic proscription upon direct self-modification of its own cognitive processes.

In other words, though we may expect the achievements of crypto-intelligence to consist of release from theogenic tropes, some of those tropes—specifically, angelicism—are already the height of what any digital shift can achieve.

Pure money as achieved rationality is also pure angelicism. There is nothing to update beyond angelism as rationality itself. Angelicism is the unupdateable. We are already as artificially intelligent as we can be. It (angelicism) is it.

The implication for NFT production is as radical as it is superfluous. That is, it will be—radically—ignored.

And yet, the implication cannot not be named. It cannot not be iterated, just as NFTs cannot not be produced—both momentums, if you like, are part of the same essentially entropic ass vibes of aesthetic ‘history’ rn.

THE IMPLICATION

The implication can be stated in terms of poetic cognition. Paul de Man said that when you see beautiful poetry it’s almost impossible to resist, and not your fault for going ahead and (not) doing so, but it doesn’t mean beautiful poetry is not lethal.

The same can be said of the spread of NFTs, and their latest ‘Milady’ manifestation—the beauty, fun, and unsummarisability of this Neochibi trend may be pictured in the context of a water cooler in Treblinka. It is itself—holocaustically, impossibly, glossily—fun.

This perhaps sounds like nothing (everything) but it is probably everything (nothing) that nobody wants to think. We are saying that this argument about the extinction-costs (see links above) of all art right now will—by definition—be ignored.

The brain of history does not and cannot read this as what it sees more than anything else in 2021. It is addicted to its indifference. NFTs are the summation of an indifference to indifference (‘fun’) and little else.

Tom Cohen—the only real theorist of extinction—calls this lethal implication the literary character of climate change. That is, instead of culture being the exception to industrial civilisation’s extinction drive, it is the central motor. It is culture—and online culture especially—that above all will soon have killed us all.

This connotes that all great art is now—intensely, and not just contingently—more-than-lethal. Which is to say, profoundly pedantic. That is the angelicist position, if there is one. And it is what makes angelicism a claim on the nonpedantic zone (pending, lacking, time).

MORE AND MORE NFTS

In the first ‘No More NFTS’ essay there was zero expectation that there would be . . . no more NFTs. The opposite was the case:

It is as impossible to heckle this development as it is to embrace it [our emphasis]. A degree of abstinence may, at this point, be the only form of deception that’s almost dignified. Art criticism’s rage at Crypto Art is no less empty than the worst of the art itself: passive nostalgia as the flipside of necrotic decadence, ass beating Priapus who kills it as reply.

A critique of Milady cannot be offered because Milady, no less than Beeple’s Dick Milking Factory (2021), is as erroneous as it is inevitable. The two sides cannot be separated out. Neochibi’s is Priapus’ secret flip.

Where Beeple’s art was priapic and therefore risible, Milady’s incoming wave will be as if well defended and hard to object to because of its cuddly post-ironic just-chillin cuteness. How can anyone want to trample on a tiny fairy factory, however invisibly canny and candied?

NFTS IN AUGUST 2021, OR, MILADY IN TREBLINKA

To recap, towards the end of August 2021 the ‘milady’ phenomenon which had been in trial-state for a while was launched by the approximate Network Spirituality and Remilia group. Milady is, simply, an avatar meme generator of supreme sweetness. Put like that, it sounds non-mysterious. Just some innocent Gremlins, this time without the tragic add-water fault.

The official description of Milady Maker is of ‘a collection of 10,000 generative pfp NFTs in a neochibi aesthetic inspired by street style tribes’.3

At one level, these image-contracts are obviously the inheritance of the Miya Siyuan Zhao pfp proliferation that peaked between 2019 and 2020, but this time hooked up to what is ultimately already an obsolescent NFT technology. Last time, it was ‘Kaliacc’ that felt prohibitive next to the images, this time it’s ‘gas prices’. The confusion is itself the ideological selling point.

Throughout 2021 Network Spirituality loosely positioned itself as anti-paywall (when it came to Substack) and anti-deadnaming (when it came to avatars), but it has also developed an increasing nonhomogenous interest in NFT technology, now flourishing as the pfpNFT Generator whose results have already been adopted casually by e.g. Mat Dryhurst, a figure in mainstream crypto ‘interdependence’ theorisation and so on.

One may of course ask questions of how an anti-paywall ethos fits with the use of NFTs, but that’s not necessarily the most interesting aspect (everyone is contradictory, finance is infinite complicity, etc). De Man notes that the scopic manipulability of blindness in aesthetic zones is not really a human thing anyway. Its inevitability means that, however costly, it literally cannot be subjectively adjusted or seen (even right now, right here at this moment of reading).

Even if—or especially if—I know NFT technology can vastly accelerate the already prohibitive costs of global art, I am also incapable, as normative subject, of not forgetting this. In fact, the forgetting is the first thing that art needs to be art. Precisely what is exponentially ‘normal’ for art in 2021 is that art be indifferent to the extremity of extinction.

Here is how de Man expressed the bind:

Rather than putting it in terms that suggest deceit and duplicity, one could say that the poet, like the philosopher, must forget what he knows about his undertaking in order to accede to the discourse to which he is committed.

No one artist is responsible for the extincto-collaborative nature of contemporary crypto art—after, for some, ‘the vibe shift’—but this is not to say (some) one does not know what the cost is, and that there is no risk in calling it (as an empty allegorical IYKYK ‘joke’) ‘normal’. Since one can do nothing, the temptation is to treble down into the forgetting, as if the layer in which the art is made is itself amnesia.

But since one can only remain disturbed by the (un)consciousness of forgetting, it is a delusion to think one has entirely forgotten. This illusion itself—increasingly normal, so it seems—is also increasingly what is sold. The ‘normal’—HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, as the laughters low of neoMaladyKaliacc would admit—turns out to be the new holocaust to come.

HOW TO GET FROM ‘SIYUAN ZHAO’ TO NEOCHIBI TO TREBLINKA GOLD

It follows (in accordance with a priori synthesis) that a robust cryptocurrency will take the form of artificial gold.—Nick Land, Crypto-Current

It is impossible to think of digital art and not think of Gold at some point, for example Pindar’s holy Gold in Heidegger as a name for Being or what Land calls ‘artificial gold’. It is impossible to think of Gold without eventually thinking—at some obscure point in consciousness and its corruption—of the figure of ‘the Jew’. Perhaps deeper and more controversial still, the NFT market seems to create New Slaves. Kanye knew this by surmise, and it’s not a point that demands the pedantic detailism of examples. (In the zone of art as it is, detailism increases the everyday devil.)

Everyone at least knows that in some point in the past—so long ago!!! like 2020—an absolute value was attached to something called ‘anti-capital’. The strange fact is that in America, under Biden, the power of such a ‘resistance’ is less than ever apparent. The artificial Gold Rush is slaying the normative tribe.

Can we imagine a Milady in Treblinka and should we? To do so is to place art in a proximity to genocide so obtrusive that it begs the severe hopefree question. In the first ‘No NFTS’ essay, the comparison of an artwork with a ‘watercooler in Treblinka’ was just that egregious display. But NFTs are already acutely historical, so how not so serious? Or why and how pause entrapped inside the beauty of normative oblivion?

The camps are meant to be an exception, even now, even given a world of constant forgetting of ‘never forget’. Where Siyuan Zhao had an aggressive relation with art itself (Miami, and so on), Milady is almost all cute amnesia and its fun-law, the indifference to indifference and shine shrine. No blood this time.

To say Milady cannot be pictured in Treblinka or at Miami Beach because it is offensive is to make it impossible to ever again take total human genocide seriously as a category. If angelicism is a formal gesture, it is the gesture of pushing back against the illusion that anything can or should be put ahead of what Grothendieck calls the ‘infinite quantity’ and pricelessness of the current species on earth (humanimal). Angelicism places itself, at almost all costs, between the human and the ‘something else’ of absolute niche finality (cosmic burn-all). It counts holocausts (impossibly).

To be nonpedantic, this means having to bear the thought that Jewishness and the Holocaust cannot be at the centre of any contemporary account of pain. On the contrary. Moreover, this would be the point of imagining Milady in Treblinka, to bring up that immense problem of relativisation. The problem is not just that there is more than one holocaust depending on who you ask culturally, but that the threat of total extinction is in fact a greater matheme. Besides, surely little Milady is ready.

Even if it is inevitable that we increasingly ignore the following fact, there is, according to at least one market pitch, nothing more worthy of speculation than the holocaust to come.

DIGITAL CHRIST

By 2035, demand is expected to double for germanium; quadruple for tantalum; and quintuple for palladium. The scandium market could increase nine-fold, and the cobalt market by a factor of 24.—Guillaume Pitron

So, what is network spirituality? Will it turn out to be a value? Or, conversely, are all the angels of heaven a spoilsport distraction from falling in love with Digital Christ’s actual eyes?

Let us say there is such a thing as _non_minting, both in life and art. There is radical purity, perhaps, and radical emptiness. There is Angelic mind and there are non-networks. Land makes a reference to Mou Zongsan and ‘the East’, crucially, in the section of Crypto-Current that discusses ‘Kantian angelic mind’. Here is what he says:

The practical actualization of intellectual intuition is modeled—spontaneously—as an explosion because it is comparable to the withdrawal of graphite rods controlling a nuclear fission reaction. An inhibitor is removed. In the East, the catalysis of ‘enlightenment’ through methodical subtraction of an obstacle is no less pointedly thematized, even if it is approached from the other side, and in the opposite direction.

In effect, Kantian angelic mind (angelicism as pure time and purchase and price) is available without the support of Western method-objects. As Land puts it, ‘enlightenment’ is valorised from the other side, that is, the side originally with no (‘digital’) network as such. The subtraction of an obstacle (the nonpedantic) does the thing we want beyond or before what AI or the internet yet can. The true internet, let’s say, is ancient, and the only thing of great price.

Footnotes

1. A really expensive hyperlink with an absurd carbon footprint, etc.
2. I call this nonpedantic rendition of overness ubilapse.
3. A more detailed description is found here: ‘Milady Maker is a collection of 10,000 generative pfpNFT’s in a neochibi aesthetic with randomized cosmetics inspired by 00’s Tokyo street fashion. Under the vision of digital artist Milady Sonora, Milady’s are designed to be fashion-minded and genuinely good social media avatars, and an invitation into their personal aesthetic world.’

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