two unfinished projects.
The below are two short projects I had started and planned to make into something more, however both I believe are useful in their current states, they are machines to be taken and broken and plugged into new machines.
A Manifesto For Any Future Plurality Studies.
There has come a time for the groundwork of any future plurality studies to be formed. The need for it can be seen in every moment, it can be seen in every used copy of Sybil, it can be seen in the alleyways of digital, mental, and physical worlds. It can be seen in the scars covering our bodies and our biosphere. This is a manifesto for not just any future plurality studies but also any future worlds and any future ways of living.
Plurality studies is made with the bodies of phenomenology, psychoanalysis, disability studies, queer studies, and whatever we can get our hands/paws/talons onto.
There will be no professor of plurality studies, it rejects academia, any involvement with academia is only when it eats the corpse of academia. If a department of plurality studies is made by a college they will wake in the morning to find the printers, filing cabinets, and anything valuable robbed from the room they gave in order to capture and the only thing left will be a note signed by every system whose screams the world refused to hear.
Plurality studies takes place in dorm rooms with friends sharing a joint, it takes place in digital deserted plazas, it takes place in apartments that smell like smoke. It will take place in the wandering of a city. Plurality studies, insurrection, and friendship are one in the same.
The questions of plurality studies include "What does it mean to be plural?", "Is there anyone who could be not plural? Or is the possibility of plurality part of what it means to Be?", "What does the existence of plurality mean for our worlds?", "How can we take what academia says about plurality and find the useable parts to use as weapons?", it entails all these questions and an infinite amount more.
What we know now as plurality has always existed, however plurality as it exists now is like queerness, it has a genealogy and exists within a context, there have always been those we know as plural but they could refuse that name.
Plurality studies's friends are therians, anarchists, gyrovagues, queers, faggots, and those who dream of better worlds.
Plurality studies ask "what does it mean to Be?" always and constantly.
Plurality studies investigates how plurality is seen, how systems see, and interactions between systems (that is to say the culture of plurality).
Plurality studies questions the way society treats plurality, what is assumed about plurality, what is "known" about it. Plurality studies does not focus on "correction" of plurality, if a system wants integration they can have it, but plurality studies does not start with assuming that plurality is something to be fixed by making many be one. Plurality studies seeks to find new ways of being, new techniques and technologies that plural systems can use.
Plurality studies is a revolt against all that-which-is.
Plurality studies does not start with the assumption that plurality is an aberration. It instead suggests that plurality has been deemed as an aberration in order for capitalism to not confront that that-which-is may be utterly wrong.
Plurality can easily be folded into the structures of capitalism just like certain forms of queerness have been, it can be used for new techniques of control and extraction; it is only by virtue of having been deemed rare that it has not been folded into capital yet. All attempts to fold plurality into capitalism must be fought with everything we have and everything we could have.
Plurality is not an unfortunate problem to be solved, it is rather a tonality of Being that has always and will always occur in some form.
Some posters one can use as decoration.