PLUTONICS A Journal of Non-Standard Theory Miskatonic Virtual University Press Copyright © 2020 the individual contributors and Miskatonic Virtual University Press Miskatonic Virtual University Press is an open-access, autonomous, not- for-profit publishing house operating in Meatspace. While Plutonics: A Journal of Non-Standard Theory is an open-access, free-to-distribute journal, individual contributors (be they writers, artists, poets, creators, etc.) retain full copyright of their work. We encourage the sharing of our journal and its publications with the only ‘stipulation’ being that we kindly ask you to acknowledge Plutonics as the original source of publication and/or spread the word about Plutonics. For more on our ‘Copyright Policy,’ please see our website: https://plutonicsjournal.com/copyright-policy/ This volume was edited, formatted, and designed by the collective entity known as Murdock Parsons. Cover art is a Symmes’ Hole from The Symmes Theory of Concentric Spheres, Demonstrating that the Earth is Hollow, Habitable Within, and Widely Open About the Poles by Americus Symmes (Louisville: Bradley & Gilbert, 1878). Public domain and digitized by the University of Michigan and hosted on HathiTrust. Printed under the auspices of Miskatonic Virtual University Press (Arkham, MA): https://mvupress.net/ Free PDF: About the Journal Plutonics is an open-access, sporadically published journal of non-standard contemporary theory. Named after the geological term “plutonic” (which is, in turn, derived from the Roman God of the underworld, Pluto), meaning igneous rocks formed from deep geologic trauma and left to cool for thousands of years. Plutonics aims to publish cutting edge theory that has no place within the ‘academy.’ With no guiding thread by the Weird, we accept submissions from all disciplines and actively encourage mixtures of philosophy, ‘hard’ science, poetry, visual arts, and other forms of Becoming. For more information, please visit plutonicsjournal.com or contact us at [email protected]. PLUTONICS A Journal of Non-Standard Theory Volume XIII, March 2020 CONTENTS Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 Contributors ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 03 Cyborg Cadavers Pathos ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07 Hallidonto Lithospheric Poetry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 INANE DREAMZ “Shoemaker Levy 9 impact on Jupitar” by Don Davis “Lunar Eclipse” by The Grolier Society Sapwood ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 23 Pseudo-Heraclitus “weird.nature” by Frida Ortgies-Tonn destroyed by relevance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 Mira Moss Crime Dental Dreamscape ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 Gui Machiavelli “Grid Cadaver” by Hallidonto Syzygetic Chronodemon of Cataclysmic Convergence ---------------------------- 36 Storm Hyperstitional Therapeutics (or Psychoanalysis with a Grip) ----------------- 37 Psuedanon4Q248 “you call us criminal” by Mira Moss Crime San Francisco Heavy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 52 Karen Kobezka Sing Me to Sleep: Notes on Virality ------------------------------------------------------- 56 Riccardo Vanelli “Bacteriophage” by Hans-Wolfang Ackermann “Nam-Shub of Enki” by Encyclopedia Satanica barkerlang v.02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 68 Paul Seidler Sub Rosa ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 81 David Roden “Coat of Androidica” by Hallidonto CONTENTS An Introduction to Numogoetics -------------------------------------------------------------- 88 V.M. “Neo-Amazonian Numogram” by @lilypatchwork aesthetics after the end of the world --------------------------------------------------------- 95 Frida Ortgies-Tonn Black Hole/Black Sun ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 96 CJ Severin “Et sic in infitum” by Robert Fludd “Solar Anus” by Cheryl Bentley Labyrinth Lot ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------108 Jonah Howell “we are sitting at the foothill” by Mira Moss Crime Radioactive Transness -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------123 Alex Ray “red neon replicated” by Mira Moss Crime Pipes -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------126 Jan von Stille Libidinal Rheology -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------128 Martina Maccianti & Laura Tripaldi Untitled ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------144 Rus Khomutoff “Once upon a time, in the not too distant future”: Bruce LaBruce’s Zombies and Queer Purgatories ---------------------------------------------------------------145 Nicholas Alexander Hayes Notes on Retrocausal AI -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 154 Peter Heft A Visit To The City: Common Influence of Air Strikes --------------------- 160 Michael Quint “untitled” by Frida Ortgies-Tonn and Paul Seidler On Action-Oriented Predictive Patterning ---------------------------------------------- 166 Ekin Erkan “Neural Network” by TheDigitalArtist “Space Future Technology” by TheDigitalArtist Necroborg Historia ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 178 Lee van Zechariah (of Necronaut Studios) “Necroborg Sighting” by Vincent Ortiz Letter from the Editor(s) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 180 Murdock Parsons “Earth’s ( )hole” by M.P. Introduction: 13:13:3:20:1 This volume—Volume XIII—marks the thirteenth hour or first of-the- clocks/first-o’clock with respect to the Plutonics periodical, that-is-to-say the first volume to take physical-rather-than-pataphysical form. Volumes I to XII, of course, were timeless/spaceless ordeals (&/or deals—ordeals—which, craftily, could not be purchased: deals «sans subscription»). Thirteen—a.k.a. One— o’clock: with 20·20 vision we can now see, indeed read, the ( )hole volume, this volume of ( )holes, this ( )hole complex. And the ‘theme’ of this volume has to do with ( )holes and the ( )hole physical/metaphysical/pataphysical precedent/precedence of this periodical (Plutonics), in [[zero-]]sum. … Indeed, on this Thirteenth Day of the Third Month (coincidentally, a spooky Friday the 13th), 23 enigmatic years after a set of unidentified flying objects lit up the sky over Arizona, Nevada, and Sonora — this date, coincidentally 239 (= Dark Light = Egregore = The Magic Name) years after the discovery of Uranus, our gaseous “neighbor” inhabited by worshippers of Lrogg — Plutonics finishes a complete rotation and returns (or perhaps, enters for the first time) the ‘physical.’ This volume, the re-inauguration of a once prestigious and enigmatic ‘non- existent’ publication serves to introduce a myriad of new critical thinkers onto the scene, operating from the domains of art, psychoanalysis, philosophy, science, and countless other disciplines. Corporealizing (or at least digitizing) our enigmatic thoughts, thoughts born of many minds around the globe, yielded a volume that will at once encourage you to reassess your subjectivity while simultaneously arousing you in the most gruesome of ways. Can hyperstitional thinking be used therapeutically? Do you want to venture into time-sorcery? What happens after the crash, when bones and bleach, dimensional clashes and dental dreamscapes merge? When Katak has had enough and begins to devour, the slime of the cyborg running through his teeth? Do we find ourselves in this darkness? His power turns the very Earth itself inside-out as it becomes a sonorous instrument reaching out into the unknown. As we grapple with humanity, changed through virality and zombification, we must ask ourselves, who are we to become? If one is to read the ‘theme’ of this volume, the ‘theme’ of ( )holes, we can more specifically isolate the ‘theme’ as being the ( )holes between the human and the inhuman; the human-inhuman boundary. From this starting point (or perhaps, endpoint), 01 the following contributions trace a subsumption of the human into other, darker forces of Becoming. While impossible to do justice to each piece, let us simply say that each contributor, via their writing, artwork, poetry, etc., track different, but nevertheless equally important lines of intensive change in the human. These lines, exits, escapes, lead to the question ‘what comes after?’ From affirmations of human destruction paving the way for new beings, to the ecstasy of the gross and weird, each contribution plots a different trajectory toward the exciting and unknown human-inhuman boundary (blurred as it may be). When we sent out the call for submissions for a journal of ‘non-standard theory,’1 we had no idea what direction we were going in. While we’re still are at a loss (perhaps that’s a good thing, traditional theorizing is dead yet somehow won’t stay buried and we must thus continue filling it’s rotting corpse with semiotic bullets), the