Previous cultural forms have been exhausted as self-consciousness has
turned into self-enclosure. Self expression has been eclipsed by a
field-network of interaction. So, the next phase in consciousness will
only come when all our attachments to the old forms and methods have been
obliterated. Everything has become transparent. Information bits flow in a
vague whirl while this proliferation, which seems to have no purpose, forms
slowly, imperceptibly, bit by bit, into a mass somewhere deep in the gray
recesses of the neural context; remnant whispers of a once dominant
cultural form. Congealed formation is in a state of information and
dismemberment. Fleeting solidity rips out and dissolves form from its old
content, providing visions of resolve and improvement over dilemmas left
behind. Substanceless collectively reverberates internally, beyond
intellect and will, in an inner-external detoxification which breaks pop
open and drains mythic consciousness of authenticity. In our
media-permeated atmosphere the search is to not repeat what has been
learned. The learned form must be cracked open through chaos to make room
for other views. Fast paced dumbness and reactionary codes are made
difficult and resistant to bourgeoisification. The logic of the image, of
the whole media society, of postmodernism in general, is satiated in an
overabundance and counter-fusion. One goes all the way through and comes
out the other side, ecstatic and covered in excrement. This hyper
overproduction is the space of refusal today. The only space from which to
develop an awareness, a theoretical awareness, of the reification of
consciousness. Are we at the beginning of a new metaphor for the system?
A Big Bang theory pushing us beyond the vanishing point? A theoretical
black hole? The aftermath of the dissolution of form is not a reductive
simplification. Rather, an analogy can be drawn to the primordial
plenitude, subject-object unity, or Benjamin's dialectical image. The
money mushroom cloud is seeking repose, as astonished eyes behold the
self-cannibalization of nostalgic fetishism. Distorted ideologies bubble
and burp their way to the top of the cesspool. Media adulation, commodity
consciousness, technocratic mind set, all collide and cancel each other out
in an orgy of fazed media mirages, a mindless bombardment of
consumption-consumption, resolving itself in an all-round social awareness.
Complete self-consciousness is meta-consciousness. Depth consciousness is
formed from the debris of superficiality and fragmentation. New
neurological circuits are connected, mutating consciousness. The
characteristics of this new neurological mutation are high velocity,
multiple choice, relativity, and the fission-fusion of all perceptions into
alternate possibilities. From Overload to Overmind.