Record page
ccru.net (archived homepage)
The archived ccru.net homepage shows the CCRU presenting itself as a designed cultural system rather than a neutral repository of documents.
Contextual work page available
This support page stays public for provenance, file paths, and archival routing. The fuller contextual work page is ccru.net (archived homepage).
Access note
Public page exposes metadata and a short excerpt only. The archived HTML remains in the internal canonical corpus.
Core idea
The homepage presents the CCRU less as an institution than as a machine for concept engineering.
Its logic is diagrammatic: slogans, keywords, futurisms, and the Decimal Labyrinth turn theory into a navigable field of signals and correspondences.
The stakes are self-mythological. The public face of the project is already designing the legend through which later readers will encounter it.
Representative extracts
Definition · archived homepage
concept engineering for the year 00
Why this matters: The site's tagline does the record's definitional work: the CCRU announces itself as a builder of concepts timed to the millennium, not a commentator on existing culture.
Definition · archived homepage
Ccru- cybernetic culture research unit
Why this matters: Even the name-line reads as design, acronym first and expansion lowercased, so institutional identity appears as one more engineered signal rather than a university credential.
History · archived homepage
Decimal Labyrinth
Why this matters: The menu entry names the site's organizing device: the numogram's zoned labyrinth makes navigation itself doctrinal, so browsing the homepage means entering the system it advertises.
Style · archived keywords
abstract culture
Why this matters: Two words carry the stylistic program: culture treated as abstract, diagrammable material. The phrase also titled the CCRU's own pamphlet series, binding the keyword list to its publications.
Afterlife · archived keywords
afrofuturism, sinofuturism, indofuturism
Why this matters: Three adjacent keywords show the afterlife already scripted: currents later treated as distinct movements sit here as entries in a single engineered lexicon of futurisms.
Provenance
Canonical web archive copied from the local ccru.net capture in land-ccru-archive.tar.gz.
Appears in sections
Virtual Futures and Para-Academia Primary section
Events, workshops, and off-campus method as the CCRU moved from campus structure toward para-academic circulation.
Numogram and Occult Numeracy Also in
Decimal labyrinths, syzygies, left-zero, and the archive's experiments in number as orientation.
Sonic Futures and Audio Theory Also in
Jungle, Hyperdub, sonic warfare, and the sound-centered pathways into the archive's theory culture.