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CCRU- CYBERHYPE II - BRAIN PLAGUES
A Cyberhype text that treats market frenzy, media contagion, and fictive amplification as one runaway process.
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Core idea
The central move of theory-fiction is to treat style and concept as inseparable. Fiction is not illustrative garnish placed on top of theory; it is one of the ways theory begins to operate materially.
These texts work by montage, compression, fictional carriers, and unstable voices. They build scenes, entities, markets, or atmospheres that behave like conceptual machines rather than like examples waiting to be decoded.
That matters because a great deal of the archive's originality lies in form. The writing does not merely report on cyberculture and modernity; it engineers new ways of sensing and narrating them.
How to read this text
Read the title, opening burst, and recurring terms before trying to flatten the text into a normal argument. Orientation comes from motifs and relays, not from a single thesis statement.
Track where journalism, fiction, market language, and philosophy contaminate each other. That contamination is the method.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 2
From Aaron Lynch’s Thought Contagion to Seth Godin’s (see article ) Idea Virus, the proliferation of interest in media 1 spin-cycles, viral marketing, corporate memetics and cultural contagions suggests that – in the latest example of non-linear hype dynamics – the infective model has itself become a craze. Ccru sent its Cyberhype correspondent Synthia Drummond (who seems much recovered from her encounter with Schwartzean ‘hype-gnosis’) to investigate the phenomenon.
Definition · paragraph 2
Searching for a preliminary definition of cyberhype crazes, Synthia arranged an interview with the improbably named Dr. Ernst P. Demic, Director of Brain Plague Simulation at London’s prestigious Centre of Cultural Epidemiology, which has just received a capital injection of Eu500 million to complete its mapping of the Inhuman Memome.
Definition · paragraph 2
Ccru sent its Cyberhype correspondent Synthia Drummond (who seems much recovered from her encounter with Schwartzean ‘hype-gnosis’) to investigate the phenomenon. Searching for a preliminary definition of cyberhype crazes, Synthia arranged an interview with the improbably named Dr.
Definition · paragraph 2
Ccru sent its Cyberhype correspondent Synthia Drummond (who seems much recovered from her encounter with Schwartzean ‘hype-gnosis’) to investigate the phenomenon.
Definition · paragraph 2
Searching for a preliminary definition of cyberhype crazes, Synthia arranged an interview with the improbably named Dr. Ernst P.
Appears in sections
Theory-Fiction and Cyberstyle Primary section
How theory-fiction, cyberpunk prose, and anti-academic style became part of the archive's method.