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Ccru - Syzygy Conversation between Mark Fisher & Steve Goodman 24 11 98 Sonicwarfare
A Fisher/Goodman conversation that keeps the CCRU's sonic and conceptual line alive inside dialogic public form.
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Core idea
These pages matter because they hold together Fisher's CCRU inheritance, sonic method, and later public role. Sound, propagation, and occult communication are made into tools for thinking culture and politics rather than eccentric side motifs.
Conversation, thesis, and essay form each turn rhythm and transmission into conceptual machinery. The page's method lies in making sonic or occult vocabulary do explanatory work on culture, ideology, and public mediation.
That matters because Fisher's public theory is not separable from the sonic and CCRU line that helped generate it. This cluster keeps that continuity visible without treating the later writing as merely derivative of the earlier scene.
How to read this text
Read for where rhythm, propagation, or confinement stop being atmospheric language and become explanatory procedure.
Track how CCRU residues survive inside public-facing criticism. The strongest pages make that crossover conceptually explicit.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 4
At the most simple narrative level, the story about Curtis concerns (they don’t involve the AOE because as we said, they are always behind the scenes) – It’s the imperial adventure of Cecil Curtis who is a bit of a drunkard, a typical kind of sea-faring laggard.
Definition · paragraph 8
Zones are just tension- accumulation zones. The whole thing with the AOE is that their mathematics is different, because they are not to do with 9, i.e. n-1, but 10. SG: What are the entities from the schizo side with the emphasis on circulation between the zones.
Definition · paragraph 1
MF: Probably the best way in is through the eyes of the strata, which is, in a way, your own eyes, in so far as you are a subject. And that is also through the eyes of the AOE, who in a way, are the white magical brotherhood behind the times, literally.
Definition · paragraph 1
And that is also through the eyes of the AOE, who in a way, are the white magical brotherhood behind the times, literally. The sequencers of our history which culminates in the West as its teleological fulfillment, with all that that implies, particularly to do with a sense of the subject in that Kantian sense of being completely run by sequential time. The basic imperative of the AOE is to run the past from the future, so it is this model of perfected cybernetic control.
History · paragraph 1
Sonicwarfare January 13, 2023 Ccru – Syzygy Conversation between Mark Fisher & Steve Goodman 24/11/98 Posted by sonicwarfare under Uncategorized | Tags: ccru, hyper-c, hyperstition, kode9, mark fisher | Comments Off Syzygy Conversation / Initiation #1 Ccru – Mark Fisher and Steve Goodman – 24/11/98 Transcribed from minidisc – 30/04/17 This was the first of a series of recorded conversations whose aim was to explicate/clarify/transmit the embryonic mythos.
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Mark Fisher and Public Theory Primary section
Fisher as bridge figure, public critic, and one of the clearest routes into the archive's afterlife.