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Ccru Datastream 6 - Making a Killing on the Net
"Ccru Datastream 6 - Making a Killing on the Net" treats jungle, techno, garage, or club culture as a laboratory for thinking futurity, rhythm, and public theory.
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Core idea
The central claim is that music scenes are not just illustrations of theory but engines of temporal and cultural experimentation. Jungle, techno, garage, and breakcore become methods for thinking futurity from below.
These texts work by translating rhythm, production, and scene memory into conceptual vocabulary. Club cultures become sites where time, collectivity, and technological mediation are actively reworked.
That matters because the archive's sonic line depends on culture moving through dance floors, pirate radio, and interviews as much as through philosophy. Public theory here is inseparable from musical circulation.
How to read this text
Read for how the page connects rhythm or scene history to larger claims about time, futurity, or collectivity.
Notice where criticism turns into method. The strongest pages in this cluster use music discourse as a way of building concepts, not merely decorating them.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 2
In other respects, accounts of the contemporary ADeath scene and its recent history prove remarkably consistent. In particular, the one name to turn up incessantly is that of Dr Oskar Sarkon, biomechanician, technogenius, and one of the most controversial figures in scientific history.
Definition · paragraph 1
I've never been as frightened as I am now.' The result is an entire jungle of 'positivezero' fugues: Thanatechnics, Sarkolepsy, SnuffStims, KZombification, Electrovampirism, Necronomics, Cthelllectronics ... Nine million ways to die. ADeath is a hybrid product, involving convergences between at least four distinct lines of rapid technocultural transformation.
Definition · paragraph 2
In other respects, accounts of the contemporary ADeath scene and its recent history prove remarkably consistent. In particular, the one name to turn up incessantly is that of Dr Oskar Sarkon, biomechanician, technogenius, and one of the most controversial figures in scientific history. Sarkon's polymathy is attested by the variety of fields to which he has centrally contributed, including transfinite analysis, neuralnets, distributed computing, swarmrobotics, xenopsychology, Axsysengineering ...
Definition · paragraph 1
A darktide of scarestories and morbid rumour increasingly suggests so. By the late 90s Leary's psychedelic utopianism seems to have contracted to the nihilistic slogan 'Turnon to tuneout' (to cite a recent release by Catajungle outfit Xxignal) ... this ain't Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll no more.
Definition · paragraph 2
Yet it was the resolutely sober Oecumenist (rather than for instance Frushlee's excitable End Times) which dedicated the cover and major editorial of its March 98 issue to the question 'Sarkon: Satan of Cyberspace?' Sarkon has become emblematic of the ways in which technological dreams go bad.
Appears in sections
Sonic Futures and Audio Theory Primary section
Jungle, Hyperdub, sonic warfare, and the sound-centered pathways into the archive's theory culture.