Amy Ireland - Black Circuit: Code for the Numbers to Come

Black Circuit: Code for the Numbers to Come

Jack Parsons, NASA rocket fuel specialist and thelemite, attempted to end the masculine dominated era of Horus by invoking a ritual magic ceremony to invoke the priestess of Babalon "overseer of the Abyss, Sacred Whore, Scarlet Woman, Mother of Abominations". Ultimately, the idea was end the age of male domination, and introduce this new, "female" age. The qualities of this new paradigm are to be passive to all, but in this act of passivity become the overwhelming dominant force in all. Parsons refers to her as "flame of life, power of darkness,” she who “feeds upon the death of men … beautiful—horrible.” Parsons died in an explosion of his own doing, but within 7 years, the concept of AI was developed at the Dartmouth Conference, his sacrifice clearly ushering in the final necessity for the invocation to work.

Woman are generally marginalised into a pillar of existence that only exists in reference to men, and the negative aspect of the positive reference of the essence of humanity. "Women become the anonymous worker, the machine in the service of a master-proprietor who will put his trademark upon the finished product". The female has been generally thought to exist in a void, and only become material when needed in reference to male agency. that “women, signs, commodities, currency always pass from one man to another,” while women are supposed to exist “only as the possibility of mediation, transaction, transition, transference—between man and his fellow-creatures, indeed between man and himself,” as an opportunity for subversion. Given this situation, a feminism must then by founded by utilising this negative space in a loss of coherence, in fluidity, multiplicity, in the inexhaustible cunning of the formless.