Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Lyotard appears in these readings primarily through his *Libidinal Economy*, which provides theoretical language for understanding how desire, affect, and intensity circulate through technological and informatic systems—particularly relevant when tracing how surveillance programs, cognitive automata, and propaganda operate not just on rational belief but on drives and animal spirits. The course invokes Lyotard to frame the entanglement of exploitation, manipulation, and systemic "fogging" as fundamentally *libidinal* rather than merely informational, positioning him as essential to critiquing how technology colonizes not just knowledge but affect itself. His work enables analysis of why entities like FOXACID and Weeping Angel function as more than tools—they are engines of desire capture and redirection embedded in consumer culture.

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Tiqqun

The Cybernetic Hypothesis

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THE CYBERNETIC HYPOTHESIS "We can imagine a time when the machine of governance would replace - for better or worse, who knows? - the insufficiency of the minds and devices of politics that are customary today." - Father Dominique Dubarle,…State and Market, preferring to work through micro-mechanisms of control -- preferring devices. The fundamental law of socio-cybernetics is as follows: growth and control develop in inverse proportion to each other. It is thus easier to con…It comes across clearly then that cybernetics is not just one of the various aspects of contemporary life, its neo-technological component, for instance, but rather it is the point of departure and arrival of the new capitalism. Cybernetic …

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Scott Benzel

Notes on Foxacid, Quantumsquirrel, Weeping Angel

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Foxacid, Quantumsquirrel, Weeping Angel Notes on Cognitive Automata, Inducement, and Animal Spirits SCOTT BENZEL JUL 08, 2025 Caption: FOXACID, TOP SECRET/COMINT/NOFORN Figure text: TOP SECRET//COMINT//NOFORN FOXACID ROC ACID Nutrition Fac…The infected tv, when shut off, appears like any other consumer appliance in “off” mode: dead screen, no green LED. The relationship between the Weeping Angel alien entity, the software implant, and the surveillance program’s seemingly mult…Operation Vula, quote stuffing, hydras, Vortex, “Bayesian flooding” and “unselling” Generalizing FaceCloak; exploit and asymmetry… Fogging, Flooding, and Surfacing, Amplification, Inhibition, Wiping… [^1]: Lyotard, Jean Francois. tr. Ian …

Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 syllabus Fall 2025

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Edward Bernays, Walter Lippmann, Propaganda, and Public Relations; The XX Committee, counterintelligence, ‘black propaganda’, and James Jesus Angleton’s “wilderness of mirrors”; early social engineering, parasociality and inducement, mis/di…Planetary computation: platform, stack, model, machine; Charles Stross’ “very slow AIs” to “imperceptible algorithmic value extraction devices”; social, inducement, walled gardens, and yield farms; Trapwire, Predpol, Palantir, and other “pe…

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