Black Market m2 The Infinite Sales Bay of the Universe

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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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• 00:00:26

  If creativity has anything to do with radical novelty, it is the enemy of knowability. Knowability compiles reality by sedimenting past experience into present generating habits. A habit is a synthesis of experience that confirms a pattern. Its hallmark is predictability, the reflexive wager that things will always…

• 00:01:06

  They respond to the unconscious organisational weight of our perceptions. Produce the expectations that give us traction on complex situations. And draw boundaries of intelligibility, which, depending on the specificities of the habit in question, can be as extensive or as claustrophobic as the operation…

• 00:01:47

  They are therefore backward-looking, and their logic is a comfortably linear one, in which past causes manifest present effects. Inside a habit, everything is ostensibly intelligible. Because something like it has happened before. Its materials are limited to that which already exists. Although they can be seen…

• 00:02:27

  A habit is, therefore, not just something imposed on an already organised notion of reality. It organises reality in every instant, gathering diverse, heterogeneous elements together into a specific rhythm. A little piece of space-time, an object, a territory, a temporary fortification against the forces…

• 00:03:04

  A weakness in security. A hole into the future. If they weren't, nothing would change. The absolutely unknowable perpetually threatens to break habit, and the source of unknowability lies in the temporality of the future. True novelty is synonymous with the unprecedented, the unrecognisable, and the sometimes…

• 00:03:40

  The human tendency to anthropomorphise agency. Freed from this tendency to ascribe its operation to unique, intentional, human agents. Creativity appears as an impersonal force belonging to time. It is paradoxically identifiable by its unrecognisability. By that which it disrupts, being unable to anticipate…

• 00:04:14

  If the new is moralised, it's only so in retrospect. Hence its inherent ambivalence. Manifesting simultaneously as potential and as threat. Two kinds of forces in recent history serve to exemplify the amoral duplicity of the new. The forces of art. And the forces of reality. And the forces of war.