plenty more advanced synthetic essays!
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| All Quests Lead to the Phylum |  |  |  |
| Written by Delphi Carstens | |
| Machinic phylumis a term coined by French post-structuralist philosophers Deleuze and Guattari to describe the universe’s reservoir of self-organising principles. They reason that whenever a crystal grows, a foetus begins to develop or someone stumbles across a novel idea something or someone has accessed this omnipresent reservoir and sampled a code. |
According to Manual de Landa our task, like that of the shamen, is to become responsible probe-heads that explore the Phylum in a search for new modes of being. Expressing the dynamics of a new paradigm will entail a ceaseless and brave journey, climbing from one strange attractor to another as we track the Phylum in search of a better destiny for humanity.
* Essential reading on the subject of the Phylum include Manual De Landa’s A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History or Deleuze & Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Science-fictional explorations include Neal Stephenson’s Diamond-Age and Tricia Sullivan’s Dreamers in Smoke.
