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The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) was an experimental cultural theorist collective, created in late 1995 with the arrival of Sadie Plant, with her group of graduate students, at Warwick University, England and gradually separated from academia until it dissolved in 2003. It garnered reputation for its idiosyncratic and surreal “theory-fiction” which incorporated cyberpunk and Gothic horror, and its work has since had an online cult following related to the rise in popularity of accelerationism. Warwick University maintains that the CCRU was never a sanctioned academic project, with some faculty going so far as to assert that the CCRU “has never existed”. The published works of the CCRU are strongly associated with, and influenced by, feminist and cultural theorist Sadie Plant, and philosopher Nick Land.

The CCRU’s work is characterized by loose, abstract theoretical writing combining elements of cyberpunk and Gothic horror with critical theory, esotericism, numerology and demonology, which often interplay in their deployment of occult systems and surreal narratives. One of the CCRU’s predominant ideas is hyperstition, which Nick Land referred to as “the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies” where by means of esoteric cybernetic principles, certain ideas and beliefs that are initially incomprehensible (akin to superstitions) can covertly circulate through reality and establish cultural feedback loops that then drastically meld society, which they also referred to in total as “cultural production”. The CCRU’s esoteric numerological cybernetic system for comprehending hyperstition, the Numogram, often appears in their writings alongside its circulatory zones and their respective demons.

In addition to drawing inspiration from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, to which references can be found in the CCRU’s writings, the collective drew inspiration from writers including H. P. Lovecraft, William Gibson, J.G. Ballard, Octavia Butler, William S. Burroughs, Carl Jung and various other sources related to critical theory, science fiction, anthropology and nanotechnology.

Excellent podcasts by Robert Cabrales: “Hyperstition – Fictions becoming real”

7 actors recreate the same 5-minute loop of time 12 times in a row in a Starbucks.

Each happening from Improv Everywhere is called a Mission. The participants are called Agents.

A rule for Agents: never reveal themselves as performers, even after the Mission is completed.

I decided that it is useful to write about what I’m working on, or, maybe more indirectly, about topics relating to what I’m working on. Writing works well for me to sort through and work through ideas, and allow things to flesh themselves out. There’s sort of a golden thread, or multiple threads, that weave themselves through what I write and what I write about.

I was a big blogger in the early 00s. The world was different then. There were lots of other bloggers on my blogroll, who would read what I wrote, and I would read what they wrote, and we would quote each other, and comment on posts, etc. For a variety of reasons, that isn’t really happening today. The Blogosphere deteriorated, fell apart. There are, of course, still people blogging, but it is not the same. So, I’m very aware that when I write here, the same things won’t happen. Hundreds or thousands of people are not going to read my post today and thing about it, and comment on it. That’s alright. I will write for my own reasons. It might be useful to others, or it might not. Doesn’t really matter.

And what am I working on, exactly? I am not going to try to put that into a sentence or a paragraph at this point. In part because I maybe can’t, in part because it, by its nature, needs to be a bit mysterious and ambiguous.