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Goodman - Fei Ch'ien Rinse Out Sino-Futurist Under-Currency (Pli v.7) (1998)
"Fei Ch'ien Rinse Out Sino-Futurist Under-Currency (Pli v.7) (1998)" focuses on modulation, affect, or automation to show how control operates through distributed adjustment rather than fixed command.
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Core idea
These texts treat control as environmental tuning rather than sovereign command. Affect, automation, and recursive adjustment describe how systems steer behavior without relying on rigid boundaries.
The pages work by connecting cybernetic feedback to image systems, automated environments, or nano-scale intervention. Modulation becomes a way of governing by continuously recalibrating a field.
That matters because the archive's viral metaphors need an account of how environments are actively tuned. Control is not only repressive; it is adaptive, affective, and distributed.
How to read this text
Read for the vocabulary of modulation, affect, or recursion before following the broader philosophical claims.
Track where automation becomes environmental rather than merely mechanical. That is usually the strongest conceptual turn.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
155 Fei Ch’ien1 Rinse Out: Sino-Futurist Under-Currency Steve Goodman2 1. [11011] The Death of a Thousand Cuts is an encryption system for ‘cleansing’ professed traitors of the Hung-Triads.3 ‘Cleansing’ involves draining every-drop of blood from the victims body through an intricately timed numerical system of one thousand incisions.
Definition · paragraph 3
FEI CH’IEN RINSE OUT: SINO-FUTURIST UNDER-CURRENCY 157 out onto a topology of morals; the monadology unfolds into the nomadology) 7. [10101] Shaolin takes the I Ching for software assigning the number 3 as the immobile motor of the encryption system.
Definition · paragraph 17
FEI CH’IEN RINSE OUT: SINO-FUTURIST UNDER-CURRENCY 171 certificate given to a servant. The chitty came to China in the 19th century by way of British custom. Foreign residents in the treaty ports found handling strings of Chinese cash or silver ingots a major inconvenience.
Stakes · paragraph 9
FEI CH’IEN RINSE OUT: SINO-FUTURIST UNDER-CURRENCY 163 19. [1001] Triad organization engages a coding system at odds with that of the state, even though this informal network can still be seen to criss-cross through the higher echelons of an array of corrupt political elites.
History · paragraph 15
FEI CH’IEN RINSE OUT: SINO-FUTURIST UNDER-CURRENCY 169 17 Victor Segalin quoted in Dean, K. & B. Massumi (1992) First & Last Emperors, 153. 18 253 in Plant, S. (1997) Zeros & Ones.
Appears in sections
Control, Virotechnics, and Swarm Systems Primary section
Control processes, viral language, swarms, and abstract dynamics as a media-theoretical cluster.