Cyberpunk speculations are already techno-economic infrastructure: contemporary social reality condenses out of the future rather than developing from the past. How could anything other than a fiction any longer be true?

In the electronically mediated sonic environment that is the telephone conversation many of the normal cues exchanged in a face to face conversation are missing or altered.

![My best guess comes down to two factors: software and the Internet.

1. Software: Designers are using the same tools, which exert the same unconscious forces on their creative process.

2. The Internet: Aesthetic diversity is bound to fall in such a hyper-connected world.](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/df9PooDbw9afcZqpseBrw.png?height=513&width=491)

Last March, after Goldsmith read a slightly altered version of Michael Brown’s autopsy report, ending with the line, “the remaining male genitalia system is unremarkable,” the poetry community fired back about Goldsmith’s crass appropriation of Brown’s body. Wilkinson was now writing a profile of Goldsmith and, having heard from Goldsmith that I was unhappy about the stunt, he wanted to talk to me about my response to it. I told him I didn’t want to take part in a flattering—yet intelligently ambivalent—profile of Goldsmith that would further burnish his reputation as just another glorified yet misunderstood white male artist.

“I took a publicly available document from an American tragedy that was witnessed first-hand (in this case by the doctor performing the autopsy) and simply read it. Like Seven American Deaths and Disasters, I did not editorialize; I simply read it without commentary or additional editorializing,”

A sledgehammer is a tool with a large, flat, often metal head, attached to a long handle. The long handle combined with a heavy head allows the sledgehammer to gather momentum during a swing and apply a large force compared to hammers designed to drive nails. Along with the mallet, it shares the ability to distribute force over a wide area. This is in contrast to other types of hammers, which concentrate force in a relatively small area.

His presentation ‘Mindless Trade’ promoted itself as a "practical demonstration of irrational exuberance", whose result would be "collective ego-dissolution into the hypersphere". He defined his method of ‘positive unbelief’ — "a fictional techonomic yoga from the Plateau of Leng" — as a process of "tuning into artificial reality, which is the only reality left." It is no longer a matter of what is believed, but of what can be treated as real. "Belief and disbelief are the twin traps of maya," Schwarz suggested. "True fusion with the market only occurs on the plane of unbelief."

https://twitter.com/lepeleth/status/1545322411477946368

Employing a range of chants, sonorous gongs, gestures and other ‘xenobuddhist’ techniques Schwarz led the audience through some of the market channelling procedures he uses when training stock- and money-brokers to ‘clear’ trading behaviour. "... You are feeling ever more relaxed ... floating in empty cyberspace ... Eliminate your own ideas." This was the last distinct phrase our correspondent can remember (despite subsequent regression-hypnosis). Her account of what followed remains both garbled and mystifyingly incomplete.

https://twitter.com/queenwartooth/status/1545906524257763328

There once was a girl named Charlotte Fang

Who had a very strange quirk:

She would only date guys

With extremely long ties,

No matter how much they stank.

Cyberpunk speculations are already techno-economic infrastructure: contemporary social reality condenses out of the future rather than developing from the past. How could anything other than a fiction any longer be true?

In the electronically mediated sonic environment that is the telephone conversation many of the normal cues exchanged in a face to face conversation are missing or altered.

![My best guess comes down to two factors: software and the Internet.

1. Software: Designers are using the same tools, which exert the same unconscious forces on their creative process.

2. The Internet: Aesthetic diversity is bound to fall in such a hyper-connected world.](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/df9PooDbw9afcZqpseBrw.png?height=513&width=491)

Last March, after Goldsmith read a slightly altered version of Michael Brown’s autopsy report, ending with the line, “the remaining male genitalia system is unremarkable,” the poetry community fired back about Goldsmith’s crass appropriation of Brown’s body. Wilkinson was now writing a profile of Goldsmith and, having heard from Goldsmith that I was unhappy about the stunt, he wanted to talk to me about my response to it. I told him I didn’t want to take part in a flattering—yet intelligently ambivalent—profile of Goldsmith that would further burnish his reputation as just another glorified yet misunderstood white male artist.

“I took a publicly available document from an American tragedy that was witnessed first-hand (in this case by the doctor performing the autopsy) and simply read it. Like Seven American Deaths and Disasters, I did not editorialize; I simply read it without commentary or additional editorializing,”

A sledgehammer is a tool with a large, flat, often metal head, attached to a long handle. The long handle combined with a heavy head allows the sledgehammer to gather momentum during a swing and apply a large force compared to hammers designed to drive nails. Along with the mallet, it shares the ability to distribute force over a wide area. This is in contrast to other types of hammers, which concentrate force in a relatively small area.

His presentation ‘Mindless Trade’ promoted itself as a "practical demonstration of irrational exuberance", whose result would be "collective ego-dissolution into the hypersphere". He defined his method of ‘positive unbelief’ — "a fictional techonomic yoga from the Plateau of Leng" — as a process of "tuning into artificial reality, which is the only reality left." It is no longer a matter of what is believed, but of what can be treated as real. "Belief and disbelief are the twin traps of maya," Schwarz suggested. "True fusion with the market only occurs on the plane of unbelief."

https://twitter.com/lepeleth/status/1545322411477946368

Employing a range of chants, sonorous gongs, gestures and other ‘xenobuddhist’ techniques Schwarz led the audience through some of the market channelling procedures he uses when training stock- and money-brokers to ‘clear’ trading behaviour. "... You are feeling ever more relaxed ... floating in empty cyberspace ... Eliminate your own ideas." This was the last distinct phrase our correspondent can remember (despite subsequent regression-hypnosis). Her account of what followed remains both garbled and mystifyingly incomplete.

https://twitter.com/queenwartooth/status/1545906524257763328

There once was a girl named Charlotte Fang

Who had a very strange quirk:

She would only date guys

With extremely long ties,

No matter how much they stank.