2.1 - The Inside as Control

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• 00:00:00

  Welcome to the second lecture on the philosophy of the CCRU where we delve a little deeper into a few of the fundamental texts written by the CCRU during their short run. So first I'm going to return to Lemurian Time War once again. As stated in the previous lecture this as I see it is by far the most important CCRU…

• 00:01:52

  As something which has been mutated into a framework of control arguably perhaps mutated would be the incorrect word as Land and I imagine most of the CCRU would see Kantianism already as a system of control or at least the inner sense lock-in for man as a system of control. The metaphysical frame which contains…

• 00:03:52

  to escape this Kantian trap to escape the human security system utilize fiction as a means of doing so or at the very least utilize fiction as a means of getting close to doing so to preparing to do so to working out how it might be possible to believe they're doing so. The OGU can be seen as a secondary layer…

• 00:05:08

  However, momentarily, epistemological hesitation is what holds the doors of the exit shut. Hypersstition, the process in which fictions become real or fact, is, as stated, a positive unbelief, not so much a creation as a revelation. If representation is a false framework with regards to truth in the first place, then…

• 00:06:39

  What Captain Mission in The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar finds is creatures who are entirely detached from any form of OGU and any form of human technology. The CCRU here begins to hyperstationalize their own text, mentioning on page 40 the attempts of Burroughs himself to escape control, or escape time. William…

• 00:07:34

  William Burroughs understood language as a virus. He says, The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host. My basis theory is that the written word was literally a virus that made the spoken word sound like a virus. that made the spoken word sound like…

• 00:09:04

  On page 42 of CCRU writings, it states Control needs time. Control needs human time. Control needs your shit, piss, pain, orgasm, death. This sentence might seem dramatic, if not somewhat infantile, but actually it's articulating more of control methods which are indebted to time. Secondary effects of time which…

• 00:10:09

  It's the cruel joke against man, a delimitation and containment of the possibilities of consciousness. In the face of nonlinear frameworks, knowing about the framework of limitation itself. The knowledge that one is within a cage, the knowledge of how one is within a cage, but also the knowledge that one can never…