Friday, July 18, 2025

Toward The Cultivation of Mutancy | Part I

If we are to take the endeavor of abyssopelagic salvage seriously, we mustn't overlook the immediate fact that the Deep runs rampant with mutants, deviants, and botched creations of all kinds. In the Deep nature finds its optimal evolutionary laboratory, an experimental evolution wherein the notion of a species-level identity is constantly being challenged and re-sculpted by its constituent members. The mutants roam free along all spatial axes, testing and perfecting their homemade contraptions which have been honed in near-isolation and with great patience, resourcefulness, trial-and-error.

As the society hopes to demonstrate in further writings, the Deep constitutes a non-ecosystem wherethrough a neutral matrix provides a niche-less landscape for the happenstance, the exception, the unforeseen, the one-off. Although the Desert has served as a potent intermediary spatiality for human in non-polis orientation, the Deep in its ultimate inhospitality, darkness, and aquaticity is the sole spatiality that can teach true mutancy - that is, the full embodiment of the unpalatable/uncivilized (a new savagery) - with the necessary force yet aloofness of a good master.

Above sea level, humanity repeatedly displays its ineptitude to contend with non-territory (a re-territorializing fetish), observable in the history of inevitable absorption of localized counter-cultural and anti-cultural flows which demoralizes efforts to trace and mobilize along potential lines of flight. The creative-radical act undergoes vulgar integration through naming, situating, and codifying, sweeping out it any respect for its unique happenstantial dimensionality.

To be in touch with the Deep and its inhabitants is to (1) affirm mutancy as a vital attribute for creative living, and (2) identify methods toward the cultivation of mutancy, and (3) inhabit the becoming-mutant in individual and public life.

More on this theme to come.


Julien Torma

"It's not the light that's attracting me, but the darkness that's driving me on.

They bang on about the obvious, want to cover it in thick layers so as no longer to see the obscure, and, after pages of equations, finally get down to formulating 0 = 0.

I (and I state it with all necessary pride) like roads leading nowhere and featureless, pathless countrysides, I dissect the inevident, I grill the incidental, I relish the fortuitous, and, at the very end of my zig-zagging, I take pleasure in formulating, for example: Paul Claudel (or whatever you like) = Q."

"Our business is with sniffed-out complicities and the open secret, laughter refused although affected and earnestness treacherously encouraged, the savoring of the pure spectacle of imbecility in its triumphal necessity...
Our distinguishing signs: fake wit, the apt response inaptly timed, the joke that falls flat, conniving gravity, the lame pun, subtly clumsy bad taste..."

"Nobody has ever given me orders. If some have reckoned to do so (in the army), I never noticed it. I have no need to have a world that's in order. I have never given myself an order."

-Julien Torma
from 4 Dada Suicides [Atlas Anti-Classics]
Read/Download HERE

Thursday, July 3, 2025

NOISE KICKER 001

NOISE KICKER
INSTALLMENT NO: 001
DATE: 03-JUL-25
LOCATION: NEUESTRASSE 9, TUEBINGEN, GERMANY
PLAYERS: T.R., D.W.
OBJECTS: FLAT METAL COLANDER & STRAINER, GRINDING DISC, COWBELL

[ LISTEN/DOWNLOAD MP3 HERE ]




Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Sonnenmensch III

It is through the ancient South American understanding of the concentric rings as aura that we can receive the full creative import of the Sonnenmensch. Like the Anglerfish, the Sonnenmensch is an apparatus of emanation, personification of solarity, embodiment of emissiveness.

This site bears visual resemblance to stone circles of Ilkley Moor, the princely grave at Magdalenenberg near Villingen-Schwenningen, petroglyphs at Walinynga (Cave Hill) in Australia, and many other sites around the world.

More to come.

Friday, June 6, 2025

Music For Anglerfish I

Recorded and presented on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 as an accompaniment to a powerpoint about anglerfish-based solar economy

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Marlboro Treadmill

concrete catheter
scratching orthogonal
to sidecar vermin

red loaf
snags on melted foam history
repeated mattress

we employed unsavory methods then
feeders on ripening potencies of yestermorrow
breathing circular, sphere, hypersphere

indecent crayola
marlboro treadmill
obuasi jewels

entrust or encrust
everything smacks
of another's tastes offending my own


Sonnenmensch II

Further exploration of the myth and mystery of the Sonnenmensch (also referred to as the sonnensteinen, sonnenscheiben, and sonnenfigur):


  • Mask-making (inhabitation)- A Sonnenmensch mask was constructed and worn to the annual Maskenball at the Lichtenstein House in Tuebingen on 28. April 2025. Some of the reactions to the enigmatic face are recorded here:
    • Moon
    • Ruin
    • Kuhfladen



  • A comprehensive text- W. Schneider- "Die Sonenscheiben mit den geknickt erhobenen Armen an der Tübinger Jakobuskirche" PDF HERE