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Process Hacks and Possible Worlds (Interview)
An interview that makes theory-fiction visible as scene practice rather than as a sealed literary doctrine.
Archive condition
The extracted text is present, but the work has not yet had a full editorial pass. The page stays public and linkable while treating quotation and interpretation cautiously.
What survives here
The central move of theory-fiction is to treat style and concept as inseparable. Fiction is not illustrative garnish placed on top of theory; it is one of the ways theory begins to operate materially.
These texts work by montage, compression, fictional carriers, and unstable voices. They build scenes, entities, markets, or atmospheres that behave like conceptual machines rather than like examples waiting to be decoded.
That matters because a great deal of the archive's originality lies in form. The writing does not merely report on cyberculture and modernity; it engineers new ways of sensing and narrating them.
Reading note
Read the title, opening burst, and recurring terms before trying to flatten the text into a normal argument. Orientation comes from motifs and relays, not from a single thesis statement.
Track where journalism, fiction, market language, and philosophy contaminate each other. That contamination is the method.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
Mat Dryhurst Process Hacks and Possible Worlds (Interview) Mat Dryhurst is a thinker and artist who in recent years has made numerous interventions and actively provoked debate on changes in the infrastructure of the music industry brought about by the advent of new business models such as streaming services.
Stakes · paragraph 1
ROBIN MACKAY: Could you describe in the broadest terms what your approach would be to the question of scoping out and building new possible worlds for the disciplines and practices within which you work? And do you see this as a political or rather as a practical or technical question?
Appears in sections
Theory-Fiction and Cyberstyle Primary section
How theory-fiction, cyberpunk prose, and anti-academic style became part of the archive's method.