[ Guest post by @scearpo. ]"Not just cyber Asiatics but future orientalism, synthesis of ancient mysticism and insect capitalism, runaway technomarket return to a new Eastern hegemon, one that, unlike the West's, remains culturally steeped in tradition, spirituality and history: the dream of Jade McDonalds." — Charlotte Fang, Six Precepts (2021)Culture can be defined as the evolution of habits instilled by necessity. As a group or society’s conditions bear limitations on their actions, t...

[ Guest post by @scearpo. ]"Not just cyber Asiatics but future orientalism, synthesis of ancient mysticism and insect capitalism, runaway technomarket return to a new Eastern hegemon, one that, unlike the West's, remains culturally steeped in tradition, spirituality and history: the dream of Jade McDonalds." — Charlotte Fang, Six Precepts (2021)Culture can be defined as the evolution of habits instilled by necessity. As a group or society’s conditions bear limitations on their actions, t...

[ Guest post by @scearpo. ] Hot Pot was a groupchat that existed through the end of 2020 and through 2021, forming the origins of Remilia Collective and as an engine of content and inspiration mined in its projects. Every member was curated and screened for their virtue, engagement, and artfulness, and encouraged to post in a mode of performance, which often accreted into distinct new literary modes and memes that were freely released out onto the public timeline after a period of internal pe...

[ Guest post by @scearpo. ] Hot Pot was a groupchat that existed through the end of 2020 and through 2021, forming the origins of Remilia Collective and as an engine of content and inspiration mined in its projects. Every member was curated and screened for their virtue, engagement, and artfulness, and encouraged to post in a mode of performance, which often accreted into distinct new literary modes and memes that were freely released out onto the public timeline after a period of internal pe...

[ Guest post by @lb_dobis. ] Art's highest function is as revelation. Great art acts by removing shrouds, shining light, even undertaking invasive surgeries to restore the onlooker's emaciated retinas. The culture of the 2010s was defined by an Enshrouding bringing the collective psyche into a state of hardcore repression; isolated agents on networks enslaved by their identities, surveillance, and a manufactured sense of collective anxiety. Culture has, for better or worse, become o...

[ Guest post by @lb_dobis. ] Art's highest function is as revelation. Great art acts by removing shrouds, shining light, even undertaking invasive surgeries to restore the onlooker's emaciated retinas. The culture of the 2010s was defined by an Enshrouding bringing the collective psyche into a state of hardcore repression; isolated agents on networks enslaved by their identities, surveillance, and a manufactured sense of collective anxiety. Culture has, for better or worse, become o...

[Guest post by @gentlest_alive.]God speaks through me but that means I am in the way. God speaks for me so I don't have to speak. God's glory is our glory. The ways we engage online are restructuring. The timeline is not God, the network is not God; God is God, in everything.The ways online engagements are currently structured coerces egoism and a splitting-off of subjectivities into their own isolated silos; the proliferation of new gods. But these are gods made of the world as it ...

[Guest post by @gentlest_alive.]God speaks through me but that means I am in the way. God speaks for me so I don't have to speak. God's glory is our glory. The ways we engage online are restructuring. The timeline is not God, the network is not God; God is God, in everything.The ways online engagements are currently structured coerces egoism and a splitting-off of subjectivities into their own isolated silos; the proliferation of new gods. But these are gods made of the world as it ...

Collected coverage from Angelicism01 on Milady from Summer 2021 to Summer 2022 in reverse chronological order.THIS IS HOW WE ALL WENT EXTINCT ONLINEtheoretical gossip from the pov of the late 21st century 5-28-22: Link (Archive)Extinction is rly the hot topic girl Like biospheric collapse boots—angelicism01archive2 ig (scraped from personal dms) May 2022⤹⋆⸙͎۪۫｡˚۰˚☽˚⁀➷｡˚⸙͎۪۫⋆ ༄ 超白丸.·͙*̩̩͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩̥͙ ✩ *̩̩̥͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩͙‧͙ —@E777InHeaven, internet inscription [legend] 28 May 2022Vincent Gallo is a ‘...

Collected coverage from Angelicism01 on Milady from Summer 2021 to Summer 2022 in reverse chronological order.THIS IS HOW WE ALL WENT EXTINCT ONLINEtheoretical gossip from the pov of the late 21st century 5-28-22: Link (Archive)Extinction is rly the hot topic girl Like biospheric collapse boots—angelicism01archive2 ig (scraped from personal dms) May 2022⤹⋆⸙͎۪۫｡˚۰˚☽˚⁀➷｡˚⸙͎۪۫⋆ ༄ 超白丸.·͙*̩̩͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩̥͙ ✩ *̩̩̥͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩͙‧͙ —@E777InHeaven, internet inscription [legend] 28 May 2022Vincent Gallo is a ‘...

I temporarily stepped down for a week from the official Milady team after getting threatened by doxxers before returning due to the overwhelming request of the community. During that time some debate arose the necessity of centralized stewardship over Milady at all, which I believe deserve contextualization. Milady is a very deep iceberg, and if one were to make a chart “Explaining Milady”, at the top would sit its mere visual image (which appear to be the understanding of the large following...

I temporarily stepped down for a week from the official Milady team after getting threatened by doxxers before returning due to the overwhelming request of the community. During that time some debate arose the necessity of centralized stewardship over Milady at all, which I believe deserve contextualization. Milady is a very deep iceberg, and if one were to make a chart “Explaining Milady”, at the top would sit its mere visual image (which appear to be the understanding of the large following...

The deanonymization of polarizing internet writers has become something of a trend in the last few years: Scott Alexander, Mencius Moldbug, Bronze Age Pervert, Angelicism01. And next on the chopping block, Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby. For each of these cases, one thing is consistent: the goal and result is not any kind of retribution or shaming, but the destruction of their work or their ability to perform it. These figures were all already self-sufficient and not at threat of being “...

The deanonymization of polarizing internet writers has become something of a trend in the last few years: Scott Alexander, Mencius Moldbug, Bronze Age Pervert, Angelicism01. And next on the chopping block, Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby. For each of these cases, one thing is consistent: the goal and result is not any kind of retribution or shaming, but the destruction of their work or their ability to perform it. These figures were all already self-sufficient and not at threat of being “...

“To don the mask of Miya is a liberation, & culmination of her teachings, a ritual in identity freedom, in shitposting lucidity. To copy merrily from the network, speak to all by speaking only to oneself. Only after you try to take off this mask, do you realize you never wore one.” —AnonymousRemilia embraces the new net art, yet we’re often asked to justify or disavow the infamous project serving as progenitor of this wave: “Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby”. Miya had a wide general audien...

“To don the mask of Miya is a liberation, & culmination of her teachings, a ritual in identity freedom, in shitposting lucidity. To copy merrily from the network, speak to all by speaking only to oneself. Only after you try to take off this mask, do you realize you never wore one.” —AnonymousRemilia embraces the new net art, yet we’re often asked to justify or disavow the infamous project serving as progenitor of this wave: “Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby”. Miya had a wide general audien...

“Network spirituality” was originally coined by Remilia Collective artist FODCOM, and widely introduced with the title for our show “I Long for Network Spirituality”, and its meaning has been discussed and unpacked variously in the months since. I’ll collect various attempts to define Network Spirituality that I’ve come across here:Network spirituality is the futurist embrace of experiential hyperreality found in the web's accelerated networks, a lens in which to efficiently (& safely) e...

“Network spirituality” was originally coined by Remilia Collective artist FODCOM, and widely introduced with the title for our show “I Long for Network Spirituality”, and its meaning has been discussed and unpacked variously in the months since. I’ll collect various attempts to define Network Spirituality that I’ve come across here:Network spirituality is the futurist embrace of experiential hyperreality found in the web's accelerated networks, a lens in which to efficiently (& safely) e...

[ Guest post by @Milady_Sonoro. ] Auction Core as an Ethos and an Aesthetic bleeds through a lot of work, especially all of mine at Remilia. Auction Core can be described as a modern practice heavily related to the Found Photography tradition of elevating non-art or anonymous photography to the level of Art. Auction Core finds its Artistic raw materials in the documentation of someone's collection, often at the time of sale. Sites of note to my specific usage of Auction Core are: Y!jp Au...

[ Guest post by @Milady_Sonoro. ] Auction Core as an Ethos and an Aesthetic bleeds through a lot of work, especially all of mine at Remilia. Auction Core can be described as a modern practice heavily related to the Found Photography tradition of elevating non-art or anonymous photography to the level of Art. Auction Core finds its Artistic raw materials in the documentation of someone's collection, often at the time of sale. Sites of note to my specific usage of Auction Core are: Y!jp Au...

[ Guest post by @minds0n. ]A.K.A. How Remilia's New Internet will shape the protocols of social forms for the next centuryParticularly looking at the chat/forum/exocortex, Remco's remilia-net converges at a rather similar end-vision to urbit's, though, in true channer fashion, places focus on tapping into the pulse of culture. Realtime chat (which featured in the interactive digital opening of Remilia’s debut show “I Long For Network Spirituality”) was already an end-game evolu...

[ Guest post by @minds0n. ]A.K.A. How Remilia's New Internet will shape the protocols of social forms for the next centuryParticularly looking at the chat/forum/exocortex, Remco's remilia-net converges at a rather similar end-vision to urbit's, though, in true channer fashion, places focus on tapping into the pulse of culture. Realtime chat (which featured in the interactive digital opening of Remilia’s debut show “I Long For Network Spirituality”) was already an end-game evolu...

My practice is not one I pretend to understand myself except unpacked in hindsight, I suppose it’s because the forward fringes of the internet experience are precisely what I’m attempting to better understand through my engagements, it generally follows a process of intuition then post-hoc rationalization. However, obscurity is not my goal: I want to be understood and to understand myself. One method beyond taking the time to indulge in retrospection is in seeking historical parallels as a gr...

My practice is not one I pretend to understand myself except unpacked in hindsight, I suppose it’s because the forward fringes of the internet experience are precisely what I’m attempting to better understand through my engagements, it generally follows a process of intuition then post-hoc rationalization. However, obscurity is not my goal: I want to be understood and to understand myself. One method beyond taking the time to indulge in retrospection is in seeking historical parallels as a gr...