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CCRU- Datastreams
A datastream cluster page that turns transmission, signal traffic, and distributed relay into the medium of thought itself.
Contextual work page available
This support page stays public for provenance, file paths, and archival routing. The fuller contextual work page is CCRU- Datastreams.
Archive condition
The page uses the canonical extracted text as its reading layer while preserving the original file paths as the archival source of record.
Core idea
The page's main claim is that datastreams are not just formats for communication but models of how ideas propagate. Thought is presented as a streamable, relay-based process rather than a stable proposition.
Compilation and seriality do the work here. Datastream form lets distributed fragments behave as one moving signal without requiring a single authoritative center.
That matters because the control section depends on forms of writing that already behave like the systems they describe. Datastreams make propagation formal as well as thematic.
How to read this text
Read the serial structure as method rather than as unfinished note-taking. The relay format is the argument.
Track how signal, packet, or stream language changes the page's sense of authorship and coherence.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 11
A series of events, including Virtual Futures: Datableed and Afro-Futures in K0 +96, and Virotechnics in K0 +97, and the emergence of the swarm-journal Abstract Culture, functioned as provisional escape-hatches, portals connecting Ccru to the outside of the university where its own future lay.
Definition · paragraph 17
So far as Ccru is concerned, this means the crash of Science Fiction. Y2K plugs into the fears that have haunted Science Fiction since its inception: the idea of a human population becoming dependent upon machines over which it has no effective control.
Definition · paragraph 121
Drexicya are part of the "hypersitious" network described by Eshun in his recent * More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction*, a network that includes Sun Ra, Public Enemy, George Clinton and Underground Resistance. For Eshun, a crucial theme in the sonic "discontinuum" he describes is abduction. "The idea of alien abduction," he explains, "means that we've all been living in an alien nation since the 18th century.
History · paragraph 137
In a later section of Hydrodemonic polyrhythm we learn further that this redesign of sonic reality generates genetic destratification for subaquatic martial arts, for insurgency on the distributed pod network which the AOE was installing, constituting a carceral archipelago under the Black Atlantic.
Afterlife · paragraph 121
Drexicya are part of the "hypersitious" network described by Eshun in his recent * More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction*, a network that includes Sun Ra, Public Enemy, George Clinton and Underground Resistance.
Appears in sections
Control, Virotechnics, and Swarm Systems Primary section
Control processes, viral language, swarms, and abstract dynamics as a media-theoretical cluster.