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Reaching Beyond to the Other On Communal Outside-Worship
A page on communal outside-worship that treats collective practice as an orientation toward what exceeds the social whole.
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 matters because geotrauma is not one genre. It can appear as interview, prediction essay, political myth, or tactile material speculation while still returning to the same problem of exposure to what exceeds human comfort.
Each page uses a different relay - conversation, prophecy, politics, seismic report, or fragment - to make the outside operative. Genre variation is part of the archive's method.
That matters because the outside is most convincing here when it crosses scales and formats instead of staying in one canonical philosophical voice.
How to read this text
Start by identifying the relay the page is using to approach the outside. That usually clarifies why it belongs in this section.
Track how material or temporal pressure is kept active even when the genre looks more public or reflective than the core CCRU prose.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 10
Reaching Beyond to the Other: On Communal Outside-Worship Vast Abrupt | 10 capitalism and its technologies. His accelerationist position is an advocation of the use of capitalism’s forces to modulate past potentials, transducing them into the future by collectively harnessing capital’s deterritorializing capacities for outside aims and egresses. Again, it can be argued that this is not so far from Land’s position either, but their arguments pivot on a battle between humanism and inhumanism.
Definition · paragraph 16
Reaching Beyond to the Other: On Communal Outside-Worship Vast Abrupt | 16 As Land, too, has consistently insisted, whether the trajectory is towards communism or any other political future, the unthinkable must be thought and recognised and this will never be without risk: “To find ways out, is to let the Outside in.” 43
Stakes · paragraph 14
Reaching Beyond to the Other: On Communal Outside-Worship Vast Abrupt | 14 capitalism, and neoliberal (post)colonialism more specifically. 38 For Fisher, the left must find its own community, a new community, that opposes such abject violence whilst nonetheless sharing with ISIS a dual resistance against and utilisation of the technologies of coercive capital.
History · paragraph 18
Reaching Beyond to the Other: On Communal Outside-Worship Vast Abrupt | 17 the philosophical texts by Deleuze & Guattari, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Marcuse, and Irigaray that emerged in that period following May ‘68. Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism (London: Zero Books, 2009).
Style · paragraph 5
Reaching Beyond to the Other: On Communal Outside-Worship Vast Abrupt | 5 Fisher’s death explicitly intensifies the stakes of his thought in this way, as his absence has become an eerie intimation of the very Outside that lurked in the background of all his writings. It must be remembered, however, that whilst death was a topic he discussed frequently, so was the collective subjectivity he saw as essential to any postcapitalist future.
Appears in sections
Geotrauma and the Outside Primary section
Molten earth, Barker, the inhuman Outside, and the archive's geological imagination.