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wk1 theory-fictions and occult practices
"wk1 theory-fictions and occult practices" treats sound as force, showing how vibration, sonic fiction, or acoustic design reorganize affective and political space.
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Core idea
These texts argue that sound is not mere accompaniment to culture. Vibration, bass, and auditory design act directly on bodies, spaces, and publics, making sonic theory a theory of force.
They work by turning acoustics into logistics, atmosphere into pressure, and listening into environmental relation. Sonic fiction and sonic warfare describe how sound reorganizes situations before it is interpreted.
That matters because the section is trying to surface the archive's strongest account of affective mediation. Audio culture becomes a way of thinking force, mood, and coordination together.
How to read this text
Read for how the page moves from music or noise toward vibration, pressure, or environmental effect.
Keep an eye on where listening becomes spatial or political. Those moments usually carry the page's strongest claims.
Representative extracts
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1. Speculative realism, accelerationism and antihumanist aesthetics The CCRU’s Theory-Fictions and Occult Practices Part 1. Fictions of the Future
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Numerologies of the Past “A same destiny of floating or of indetermination puts an end to science-fiction—but also to theory as specific genres.” Part 1. Fictions of the Future MELTDOWN! “The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off.
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Part 2. Numerologies of the Past “A same destiny of floating or of indetermination puts an end to science-fiction—but also to theory as specific genres.” Part 1. Fictions of the Future MELTDOWN!
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Fictions of the Future MELTDOWN! “The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway…” “Throughout the derelicted warrens at the heart of darkness feral youth cultures splice neo-rituals with innovated weapons, dangerous drugs, and scavenged infotech.
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Fictions of the Future MELTDOWN! “The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off.
Appears in sections
Sonic Futures and Audio Theory Primary section
Jungle, Hyperdub, sonic warfare, and the sound-centered pathways into the archive's theory culture.