Amy Ireland—Black Circuit Code for the Numbers to Come (TSpec3)

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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• 00:00:01

  black circuit code for the numbers to come part zero here is the blueprint for ingress virginia barrett crypto crystalline January 1946 Mojave Desert rocket scientist and thelemite Jack Parsons performs a series of rituals with the intention of conjuring a vessel by which to carry and direct the force of babylon…

• 00:04:43

  Something had crept in through the rift Parsons had opened up, something devious, oblique, Ophidian, a factor unknown and unnumbered. Consider this. The book of the Antichrist contains the following battering. Within seven years of this time, Babylon, the scarlet woman, will manifest among ye, and bring this my work…

• 00:08:14

  Rather, to quote Parisi, Livingston, and Greenspan, she lies back on the continuum. Or a rigore, her zone is within the signs or between them, between the realised meanings, between the lines, and as a function of the reproductive necessities of an intentionally phallic currency, which, for lack of the collaboration…

• 00:11:50

  Behind the veil and the screen lies the matrix of positive zero. Zero stands for nothing and makes everything work, declares Plant. The ones and zeros of machine code are not patriarchal binaries or counterparts to each other. Zero is not the other, but the very possibility of all the ones. Zero is the matrix…

• 00:14:51

  It would have to be smart enough to know not to appear smart. A machine that passes the Turing test would be, by definition, an expert dissimulator. Plant's point about the successful mimic already being something and somewhere else, over the break, as she puts it, is this, by the time the mask has been removed…

• 00:18:31

  He anthropomorphizes the AI, falling for its human mask, even though the artificiality of the situation has been emphasized from the beginning. Such is Ava's memetic prowess. The screen that separates man from the Matrix begins to decay, signaling the collapse of the economy built on its reflective guarantee, along…

• 00:22:46

  This is exemplary of what Plant, along with Nick Land, with whom she co-founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit in 1995, would call cyber-positivity, an imminent process of self-design without recourse to an outside term. Self-design, but quote, only in such a way that the self is perpetuated as something…

• 00:26:32

  Animated by the turbulence of zero and nine, pandemonium is the realm of the self-organizing system, the self-arousing machine, synthetic intelligence. It is I, Babylon, you fools, my time is come.