06-12-2017

Notes on the Paranode

The network separates us from ourselves. We have to go through the nodes and beyond in order to think what we are. imagine a place outside of the boundaries of the lines and points, where no signal can be reached. you might think you are absent from the network here, but you still influence it from a place of parasitism. by being invisible to the network, you can form knowledge that can be used to subvert its own logic. the more it extends its tentacles into this unknown, it becomes possible to unmap these nodes in other ways. when you encounter the outside of the network, you start a process where the self becomes other to itself, lost to virtuality -- this being an endless loop of metasubjectivity where the self is regenerated continuously through fleeting objectivity. individuals can only exist as the outcome of becomings. through the affirmation of the immanence of virtuality, you must learn to accept that the self becomes multiple, both losing definition and creating itself. the formation of a self-sufficient identity is a falsehood, subjectivities and bodies are merely locations for ongoing actualisations. differentiation itself gives form to multiple, ever-changing identities.

in this place you are now in