Self and Other complement and complete one another. Instead it is infected with a self-replicating virus, an infinite crystal of separation, the grammar which prevents us from killing Nobodaddy once and for all. All forms of communicativeness should be angelic-language itself should be angelic-a kind of divine chaos. Hermes-the Angel-the medium is the Messenger. Other-a false dichotomy propagated through the Media of Control, and above all through language. Like those tranced travelers in Irish fairy tales who visit the Otherworld and seem to dine on supernatural delicacies, we wake in a bleary dawn with ashes in our mouths. As the Spectacle disintegrates (like a malfunctioning VR program) it reveals the fleshless bones of the Commodity. And so the values of Civilization are based on the denial of desire.Ĭapitalism, which claims to produce Order by means of the reproduction of desire, in fact originates in the production of scarcity, and only reproduce itself in unfulfillment, negation, and alienation. No being, only becoming-hence the only viable government is that of love, or “attraction.” Civilization merely hides from itself-behind a thin static scrim of rationality-the truth that only desire creates values. The logic of Passion leads to the conclusion that all “states” are impossible, all “orders” illusory, except those of desire. The only force significant enough to facilitate our act of creation seems to be desire, or as Charles Fourier called it, “Passion.” Just as Chaos and Eros (along with Earth and Old Night) are Hesiod’s first deities, so too no human endeavor occurs outside their cosmogeneous circle of attraction. Ontological Anarchy proposes that we wake up, and create our own day-even in the shadow of the State, that pustulant giant who sleeps, and whose dreams of Order metastatize as spasms of spectacular violence. Images of punishment haunt the sleep of Order. ![]() “Chaos never died.” Any form of “order” which we have not imagined and produced directly and spontaneously in sheer “existential freedom” for our own celebratory purposes-is an illusion. Ontological Anarchy however replies that no “state” can “exist” in chaos, that all ontological claims are spurious except the claim of chaos (which however is undetermined), and therefore that governance of any sort is impossible. (No better than Christians in this respect, or so Nietzsche believed-radical only in the depth of their resentment.) Anarchism says that “the state should be abolished” only to institute a new more radical form of order in its place. From this point of view, Order appears as death, cessation, crystallization, alien silence.Īnarchists have been claiming for years that “anarchy is not chaos.” Even anarchism seems to want a natural law, an inner and innate morality in matter, an entelechy or purpose-of-being. All mess, all riot of color, all protoplasmic urgency, all movement-is chaos. Hun-Tun, chaos-as-becoming, chaos-as-excess, the generous outpouring of nothing into something. “Nothing” begins to take on a face-the smooth, featureless egg- or gourd-visage of Mr. ![]() The great serpent (Tiamat, Python, Leviathan), Hesiod’s primal Chaos, presides over the vast long dreaming of the Paleolithic-before all kings, priests, agents of Order, History, Hierarchy, Law. Out of nothing we will imagine our values, and by this act of invention we shall live.Īs we mediate on the nothing we notice that although it cannot be de-fined, nevertheless paradoxically we can say something about it (even if only metaphorically):-it appears to be a “chaos.” Both as ancient myth and as “new science”, chaos lies at the heart of our project. Since absolutely nothing can be predicated with any real certainty as to the “true nature of things”, all projects (as Nietzsche says) can only be “founded on nothing.” And yet there must be a project-if only because we ourselves resist being categorized as “nothing.” Out of nothing we will make something: the Uprising, the revolt against everything which proclaims: “The Nature of Things is such-&-such.” We disagree, we are unnatural, we are less than nothing in the eyes of the Law-Divine Law, Natural Law, or Social Law-take your pick.
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