a global ballet dance that defeats libidinal modularity – narrative
a global ballet dance that defeats libidinal modularity
what does it mean for a million ballet dancers to be perfectly in sync? it doesnt require choreography.
there is a new world order with a plane where there are a million ballet dancers, and a network that got them all there. a plane where there is an implicit productive surface, but not designed, unlike our current order. in the case of this current order of machination, the plane "hosts" itself temporarily, then everyone scatters when it becomes dated or stops making sense. today, workers scatter jobs, or civilians emigrate cities, or only use cities as hubs that become ruinous when the economic assumptions that power a city stop making sense.
passion doesnt become a stable craft, or craft itself virtualizes, and inhibitions or passions get trapped in between. they get seen as a slower force meant to simply lightly cruise against a macro economy that encodes domination first, through history. later it imprints through this domination — a "scale" effect that causes determinations to integrate. or it creates the virtual which does that itself and behaves as an ahistorical unit.
alternative forms of organization offer continuity and patience as actual forms of being. planes, the productive surfaces that make all other territorializations possible, have never been schematized. the division of labour thought to schematize them, but it actually divided the virtual function of planes instead of the meta virtual functions "about" planes.
the virtual isnt always hosting planes, and when it does this doesnt always end up working, since the passional force is pulling lift down on the other end, but lift itself doesnt have anywhere to go. exocapital is using planes to host virtualities that mechanize themselves. territorializations are many things: economized sequences, synchronicity in exchange, passionations becoming virtualizations, and virtualizations existing in spite of inhibitation. but they are not or have been independent units, because a machinic unconscious doesn't historically exist.
the passional layer that organizes, nearly still naturalistically and not scientifically, every sway of concentrated economic determination, is still and always has been the politically determinate force. and it such a force that if you would see it to be so, justifies every inhibition, that never integrates, and that has made all integration encoded in a history of domination through firstly the token.
the resourcefulness of the plane to produce an inhibited reality is still its main use as dictated by the current division of labour, yet the plane itself is still the counterpassive force of a virtual that doesnt always hold to the limited imagination of a resourcemaxxing current. there is a second consequence, the plane actually exists as a machination that becomes virtual just in spite of planehosting usually being unable to scale. so in that sense it is integrative, but only in that sense, and in every other it is inhibiting. and is this where the virtual turns into a surface for network communication? because network communication comes in to sweep the remains of every spectacular surface.
the plane could succeed at planeification, at integrating surface motives and producing a generated realitywork, but nobody believes the plane needs to capture the territory on top of which it rests, and it still functions, because its assembling function is why the network manages to integrate everyone. if at a sudden point the network ceases to be convincing, it will still gather everyone, but the priorities of the quo might get mixed up.
but our counter-example plane is inhibiting, it has a ragdoll capacity, it can be pushed, or you can ride it. imagine a plane where there are a million ballet dancers, and they are all performing perfect moves in synchrony. imagine them coming in the next day, and failing to perform any moves that dont arise out of their own volition, then the next day, imagine they all stop being ballet dancers at once. and then the next day, that they continue to be so, as if the first day happens again. such an imagination is politically impossible, because the integrative function of the plane is institutionally secondary to its inhibiting function, or in other words, the network exists as a prerogative to the economic assumptions that the division of labour implies for and about craft on the one hand and the coexistence of the designed function of the performer in our quo.
in our imagination, the ballet dancers "ride" this plane. what would make them so good at ballet, that the division of labour could produce perfect synchrony between each dancer individually and at once? every ballet dancer would have to work on exactly one move the whole day, until it comes about naturally. then every following day, the task would be to hold up the memory that would otherwise change the passional strategy. the division of labour according to a machinized or computerized theory of value is the same machinic unconscious which wants to turn virtualities into actual domains without wanting to integrate any aspect of the passionate layer which overdetermines inhibition, even if this leads politically to domination.
on the other hand, the ballet dancers, to hold onto craft in such a perfect way, would require their own inhibitions to end. if the function of the city stops being seen as a metabolism, or there is no clearing, if there is no clearing or counting then there isnt an algorithm that determines human conduct which is today organizationally impossible. but the passional layer also cant determine any division that would correspond to the machinic unconscious' processes.
there is the aspect of the ballet dancers as upholding a perfect limit of craft. take a restorative effort, as the ideological units of the city grow and institutions warp under the prerogative of the next perfectly integrated but largely inhibiting form of social economy. the restorative effort attempts to map an economy.
for example, an uber economy goes from gentrifying tickets (holding them to a function of gentrial reality per se, making them a racial unit or a cheaper simulacrum of themselves) to commodifying spaces to ruling over desires to turning advertisements into interactable units, to precariousizing labour. lets say this doesnt at all happen at once. lets say at first it only gentrifies tickets and the other processes are only (as happens) half-hosted underneath this act, at least in this specific city.
under the current imperfect quo of modernity, the passional layer overrides an aspect of the tickets and subsumes them into a culture of bargaining or some form of non algorithmic networkcoms. then a subalgorithmic layer, a property of the machinic unconscious, virtualizes an aspect of how tickets are seen and traded. the moment the passional layer uses up this state, and the economic justification ceases to have an integrative function, the city warps and inhibits this realitywork and basically collapses the jurisdiction of this form of ideological unitry. the entire passional layer survives, and the machinic unconscious becomes an alien artifact reserved for a next type of society that can reuse it in a slightly altered form. basically, this is bad because the perfect assumption of craft entirely fails the division of labour that the economic justification attempts to pass through the passional layer and this is the basic assumption under which the machinic unconscious would ideally lift and drag virtualities and among those the tokens used to meta communicate about said variables. the networkcom comes in to assume itself on top of some particular jurisdiction, and thats about it. the integrative function fails, the ballet dancers change their aesthetic domain or they turn into subdivided units
so, under such an assumption, there is no integrative capacity. now imagine the ballet dancers assume a hosted plane with perfect territorialization. every act of craft is subdivided by its existence. the entire human effort or lifeline is but a fleeting moment, due to how heavily integrated it is. the virtual economy can only commodify tinier and more modular units of libidinality and volition. and as such, the entire machinic unconscious nests itself along the plane. here, the territories are stark and clear as day, and there is no need for a computerized division of labour, because the passional layer interferes precisely with its own jurisdiction of what we see as continuity. this continuity is not a sort of counter economic principle, just another way it can manifest to hold the temporal fictions together. what does it mean for a million ballet dancers to be perfectly in sync? it doesnt require choreography. there is a point where every movement is done individually. it all unfolds slowly, rapidly but slowly. the tests are made, the practices simulated. so many simulations, without any discrimination. at once, the plane folds on top of desire, it never has to transform visibly outside of itself to host desire imperfectly.
this imagined environment where a plane and a territory are fully integrated also heavily decelerates the economic assumptions behind ideology. the aesthetic roles of different historical epochs never have to enter institutional schizophrenia or mess with the popular imagination of the quo if their memory is so carefully held together that they never fall apart.
genocide, but a better name for it may be realitycraft, as such one geological process that interferes with cultural accelerants, attempts to cause the most amount of destabilized volition and supercharge it so that it mutates planes faster than they can integrate. this inhibitory function essentially causes an acceleration of the will of a subset of the passional layer involved with diminution.
what is modularized is the particular form of craft that enables an image of integration, rather than the general mode of craft that we all belong to. craft is the same to the passional layer as a territory is to a plane: passionated sequences, synchronicity in aesthetic belonging, passionations becoming volitions or pledgeoriginating, and an entire surface of possible motivations enacting itself in real time (usually pushed to its utmost edge by the machinic unconscious)