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Helicopter-fetish

2024-09-16T05:06:59Z

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'''Helicopter Fetish [AKA 'Copter Fetish]'''

A term referring to the collective fascination and sexualization of helicopters throughout the 1980's and early 1990's <ref> Instances of 'copter fetishization in the media declined precipitously upon the advent of the [[tikrit|Gulf War]], a heavily publicized conflict in which hundreds of Iraqi citizens were killed by 'copter deployed missiles. </ref> in Western culture. The phenomenon is commonly thought to have crested in a notorious television interview 1997 with the action star Tom Cruise <sup> ''[[tom-copter-fetish]''</sup>- a rambling, often incoherent three-minute colloquy in which the actor says the word helicopter seventeen times and cries like a young boy. Oft-cited examples of 'copter fetishism include the television shows ''[[jan-michael-vincent|Airwolf]]'',''[//eternal-september.net/octagon-of-dex Airwolf (Redux)]'', and ''The A-Team'', the films ''[[arnold-schwarzenegger|Predator]]'', ''Blue Thunder'' <ref> See: ''[[error|I Love You Blue Thunder]]'' by [[tetra-denim|Tetra Denim]]. </ref>, and ''[[steven-seagal|Under Seige]]''. Popular music was no stranger to the 'copter fetish craze - hair metal band [[hysteria|Def Leppard]] featured an oft-bypassed cold open of the band arriving at the studio via 'copter in their hit ''[//eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/love-bytes.html Love Bites]'', DJ Total Freedom featured 'copter recordings in their live sets, and even the experimental serialist composer Stockhausen got in the mix, composing the
[[error|Helikopter-Streichquartett]] <ref> A piece whose genesis clearly predates the larger societal trend. </ref>  as part of his epic seven-day-opera ''[[error|Licht]]''. 

Analysis as to the origins and nature of 'copter fetishism vary, though some media theorists trace its roots back to the prominent role of helicopters in the development of early computer graphix, [[ai|A.I.]], and early virtual reality devices. The efforts of [[error|Bell Helicopter]], a division of [[error|Ma Bell]], to equip their military-grade 'copters with night vision, missile tracking systems, and were integral to the development of core technology on all three fronts, leading later to early [[error|IBM]] graphix <ref> Components used in the creation of ''[[running-cola|Running Cola is Africa]]'' <sup> '''[//eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/running-cola-is-africa.html Ω]''' </sup>. </ref> cards, [[deep-blue|Deep Blue]], and the [[sword-of-damocles|Sword of Damocles]] ''<sup> [//eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/white-cube-o-death.html Ω] </sup>''. The personification of vehicular robots throughout the early 1980's, most notably in the [[transformers|Transformers]]
franchise, is also thought to have played a role.

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Wintermute

2024-09-16T05:04:04Z

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''''' wintermute'' [1986]'''

Despite the abstract setting and obscure vocabulary of
[[william-gibson|William Gibson]]'s ''Neuromancer'', the novel's cult success spawned a handful of attempts at dramatization. All failed... mostly spectacularly ''wintermute'', a spin-off television series launched in 1986 set entirely in an exorbitantly costly and brutally indecipherable analog rendition of cyberspace.

Although the show managed to distill the novel's somewhat convoluted plot into a slightly more conventional tragic adventure story, it was marred by a lack of conventional action and forward momentum. '' [[error|Ghost Hieroglyphs]]'', the series' pilot episode, contains multiple extended sequences of an unintentionally glitchy digital ocean, the longest of which spans over 1 minute and 23 seconds. Creator [[steven-bochco|Steven Bochco]] later disavowed participation in the development of ''wintermute'' after Ohio Valley test viewings resulted in aggressively negative audience reactions including two separate [possibly unrelated/bogus] episodes of induced seizure <ref> In the wake of the infamous "[[pokemon|Pokémon Incident]]", it was posited that ''wintermute'''s extended sequences of flashing block color squares could in fact be to blame. </ref>. The series was subsequently never aired. Despite the profound fiscal and dramatic failure of ''wintermute'', the project helped solidify creator Steven Bochco's reputation as a visionary in the field of experimental entertainment television. Unusual for a network program, the progressive rock group Octagon of Dex <ref> A name taken from Gibson's slang for [[narcotics]] in pill form in ''Neuromancer''. </ref> was hired to score the entirety of the series, including the show's now iconic opening credit sequence <ref> Also titled ''Octagon of Dex''. </ref>. Following the untimely cancellation of ''wintermute'', the group released material composed for the show as part of its debut (and only) commercially released album <ref> Also titled ''Octagon of Dex''. </ref>.

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Tetra-denim

2024-09-16T05:02:33Z

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'''Tetra Denim'''

Experimental No Wave New York City-based music ensemble active in the early/mid 1980's. The group's work was marked by the intersection of jazz fusion, synth pop, and carnatic music. Beyond its musical style, little about the group is known - a cover-less three song demo EP stands as the group's only official documentation. A smattering of video material was, at some point, posted on
[[phantom-archives|Phantom Archives]] using ripped footage from various cartoons, television shows, and journalistic interviews. It remains unclear if those materials were generated by the digital archivist or the group itself. The group's archivist claimed that members of the group went on to help form other prominent groups of the No Wave movement, including [[digital-riptide|Digital Riptide]] and the [[error|Spaceships of Ezekiel]].

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Octagon-of-dex

2024-09-16T04:58:42Z

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'''Octagon of Dex'''

Mildy experimental rock group active throughout the 1980's. Known primarily for scoring a number of promising but ill-fated television series, many in collaboration with the writer/director/producer [[steven-bochco|Steven Bochco]]. The group's only commercial release was self-titled, and included their most successful single, also called Octagon of Dex - a song originally composed for the ''[[william-gibson|Neuromancer]]'' spin-off show ''[[wintermute|Wintermute]]''. The group's connection to Gibson's novel preceded
their work on the series - their name is an appropriation of [[william-gibson|William Gibson]]'s term for a pill of amphetamine <ref> In fact, Bochco's initial introduction to the group came through his exhaustive Neuromancer research. </ref> Infighting within the group often led to controversial musical choices, particularly in reference to the frequency, length, and instrument choice of non-vocal solos <ref> Culminating in the seemingly endless fretless bass solos throughout the [[skynet-syndrome|SKYNET SYNDROME]] score. </ref>.
Although the group never established a mainstream commercial presence, its
credit and montage scoring on shows like ''[[skynet-syndrome|SKYNET SYNDROME]]'', ''[[otherworld|Otherworld]]'', ''[[jan-michael-vincent|Airwolf]]'', and '' [[my-nepenthe|My Nepenthe]]'' are notable for their compositional depth and [attempts at] high-level musicianship. The group disbanded following repeated attempts to score the opening of an aborted '' [[neon-genesis-evangelion|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' American reboot.

#Ref: Octagon of Dex: ''Octagon of Dex''.

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Sword-of-damocles

2024-09-16T04:57:19Z

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'''The Sword of Damocles AKA The Virtual Sword of Damocles [related: Ivan Sutherland, Vannevar Bush, DARPA, ARL, HMD]''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/virtual-sword-of-damocles.html Ω]</sup>

The Sword of Damocles Computer Science Project (SDCSP) was a virtual reality-based research project featuring the world's first [//eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/white-cube-o-death.html Head Mounted Display (HMD)]. Debuting in 1960, the SDCSP precursed the eventual development of functional VR technology by almost 40 years. The project was led by Ivan Sutherland <ref> Commonly considered to be the father of computer graphics. </ref>, creator of the SketchPad™, and his team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Sutherland's system involved an
ingenious combination of rudimentary computer graphics, stereoscopic lensing, hand-sautered electronics, plastic tubing and cosmetic mirrors - along with specially-made sensor gloves <ref> Later known as haptic feedback gloves - now used in a variety of applications including the [[nes|Nintendo Entertainment System]]'s [[error|Power Glove]]. </ref> to track the user's movements.

Following the unveiling of its initial prototype, the SDCSP received seed funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and, later, the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) under contract with [[helicopter-fetish|Bell Helicopter]] for use in aerial weaponry development and aviation training.

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Due to the low processing power available at the time, the computational control system used by Sutherland's team was gargantuan, weighing over 3,500 pounds - roughly equivalent to half the helicopter on which it was to be housed.
Occupying over 500 square feet, the SDCSP's central controls generated temperatures upwards of 200 degrees Fahrenheit. The project's military participants were subjected to a variety of grueling simulations, including helicopter and airplane crashes, shipwrecks, and other disasters - resulting in waves of nausea and heat stroke. The project made significant progress until it was eventually shut down in 1974 after a slew of technical difficulties and participant complaints/threatened litigation. Overall, the SOD was estimated by
[[error|Ma Bell]] to have cost approximately $52 million and was, at the time of its discontinuation, widely considered to be a failure. The SDCSP was somewhat satirically named after a [[error|Greek myth]] in which the (likely
apocryphal) miscreant Damocles was briefly seated on the throne of Dionysius only to find a heavy sword strung gingerly above his head - an analogous reference to the bulky and extremely ponderous equipment employed in
Sutherland's HMD.

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Illuminati-quartet

2024-09-16T04:56:12Z

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'''Illuminati Quartet'''

A New York City-based experimental string quartet active throughout the 1980's. Members of the quartet were exclusively masked - any consistency in regards to personnel is therefore difficult to determine. The group collaborated often within the downtown [[no-wave|No Wave]] scene, contributing strings to music by [REDACTED] and [//eternal-september.net/neon-babylon Neon Babylon], among others. As a solo entity, the Illuminati Quartet (IQ) focused its energies primarily on both modern and medieval music - recording work Purcell <sup>[[error]]</sup>, [[alban-berg]] <sup>[[error]]</sup>, and, perhaps most notably, [[error|Stockhausen]], whose [[error| Helikopter-Streichquartett]] became a staple of the group <ref> Its popularity perhaps more widely attributable to the [[helicopter-fetish|helicopter fetishization]] prevalent in the cultural zeitgeist. </ref>.

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Lyric-suite

2024-09-16T04:55:48Z

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'''''Lyric Suite'''''

Seminal cypher work by Austrian [[error|serialist]] composer [[alban-berg|Alban Berg]] dating from the year 1926. The composer stated in his opera ''Wozzeck'' "man is a chasm, it makes your head reel when you look inside". In this light, the ''Lyric Suite'' can be viewed as a highly coded view into Berg's lust-riddled psychic depths. The piece is in effect a darkly erotic ode to Hanna Fuchs-Robettin, sister of his close friend Franz Werfel and wife of industrialist and music patron Herbert Fuchs-Robettin. Smouldering letters between Hanna and Berg were secretly carried back and forth by [[error|Theodor W. Adorno]] throughout their shrouded affair. In the suite's final movement, Berg uses the cold mechanics of serialism to embed a lust-ridden poem entitled "Out of the Depths" by the French poet
[[baudelaire|Charles Baudelaire]] into his sonic matrix - a secret that remained undiscovered until 1978, a full 50 years after the ''Lyric Suite'''s completion. Of the piece, Berg secretly stated to Hanna:

''"It has also, my insatiable Hanna, allowed me other freedoms! For example, that of secretly inserting our initials, HF and AB, into the music, and relating every movement and every section of every movement to our numbers, 10 and
[[23-enigma|23]]. May it be a small monument to the infinite depths of our love. You are mine own."''

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Neon-babylon

2024-09-16T04:52:33Z

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'''Neon Babylon'''

A mythologically-oriented musical ensemble of fluid membership and unclear origin. The group's musical style was marked by the juxtaposition between modern analog synthesizers and more traditional instrumentation such as strings, acoustic percussion, and harpsichord. Documentation of the group is limited to a handful of mono recordings and a series of VHS concert videos featuring
[[error|occult]] imagery. Lyrically, the group focused largely on a grab bag of Illuminati-related subjects, including the [[error|Silurian Hypothesis]], [[error|Saturn's Hexagon]], and the significance of [[error|Alpha Draconis]], as well as the wider world of the ancient mythologies surrounding the Levant. Neon Babylon's activity often overlapped with that of the masked [[illuminati-quartet|Illuminati Quartet]]. As with the quartet, the visages of Neon Babylon members were most often shrouded, either with masks <ref> The group's keyboardist(s) was/were often adorned in a large [[minotaur]] mask - a recurrent symbol in the group's somewhat haphazard mythos. </ref> or crude analog effects. Individual singers from the performance art collective [[error|Shepherds of Apocrypha]] were, at times, featured in various Neon Babylon materials, singing or sprechgesang-ing in both German and Latin.

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Neon-babylon

2024-09-16T04:44:35Z

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Neon-babylon

2024-09-16T04:43:15Z

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Neon-babylon

2024-09-16T04:40:40Z

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2024-09-13T22:01:36Z

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Slideshow demo

2024-07-30T05:09:41Z

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Slideshow demo

2024-07-30T05:08:04Z

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Tetra-denim

2024-07-24T15:28:21Z

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Tetra-denim

2024-07-24T15:28:08Z

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2024-07-24T15:27:43Z

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Metal-gear-solid

2024-07-24T15:19:05Z

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'''''Metal Gear Solid'' [ [[Konami]], 1987-][related: The End, Hideo Kijima, Psycho Mantis]'''

Ongoing series of stealth action video games developed and directed by Hideo
Kijima centering on the pursuit of Metal Gear, a nuclear-armed bipedal form of
walking [[ai|A.I.]] with the capability of destroying humanity. The series' protagonist is most often Solid Snake, a special forces operative based on ''Escape from New York'''s Snake Plissken (played by award-winning actor Kurt Russell). Notable for its exploration of philosophical issues, regular breaking of the fourth wall, and the almost byzantine complexity of its story lines, ''Metal Gear Solid'' stands as a prime example of [[vpd|VPD]] functionality. Moments of "palpable poignance" from the series are too numerous to catalog and include:

* Psycho Mantis, a floating man in a gas mask and self-proclaimed  [[error|clairvoyant]]. Snake's encounter with Psycho Mantis begins with the possession and attempted seduction of Meryl, the game's female protagonist and culminates with Psycho Mantis taking control of the player's controller, causing it to shake vigorously <ref> Upon release of the game the mechanism used by Psycho Mantis to take possession of the port 1 controller was unclear and led to accusations of  [[error|occultism]] from various parent organizations, in part due to the trauma experienced by younger players of the game, a controversy intensified when, later in the series, Psycho Mantis's ability to change channels on the player's television monitor is revealed. </ref> Defeat of Psycho Mantis only occurs upon removal of the game controller from port 1 and insertion into port 2, thereby disabling the villain's ability to telekinetically control and predict Snake's movements.

* The End, the parrot-loving centenarian villain of ''Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater''. Although The End's skills in stealth, marksmanship , and camouflage are unparalleled, he can be defeated via an inordinate number of week-long saves <ref> A second technique for defeating The End in this manner was recently discovered involving the manipulation of the in-game console clock. </ref>, thus causing him to die of old age.

* Numerous instances of defecation and urination factoring into ''Metal Gear Solid'''s gameplay, including characters soiling themselves out of fear and the "Wolf Box", an elaborate process involving wolves urinating on a box in which Snake is concealed, thus rendering him safe from wolf attack for the remainder of the game.

* [[File:Ladder-scene.mp4|500px|center]]<ref> In perhaps its most notorious scene, the ''Metal Gear Solid'''s central protagonist spends upwards of seven solitary minutes climbing a metal ladder following the defeat of The End to the soundtrack of [[enochian|enochian]] [[light-singing|Light Singing]]. </ref>

Cyberpunk, as portrayed by [[william-gibson|William Gibson]] in ''Neuromancer'', is a stated influence of Kijima's, as are the works of [[gravitys-rainbow|Thomas Pynchon]]. Games influenced by the ''Metal Gear Solid'' series are too numerous to name, though the "cornfield" in Second Life is often cited as a notable and direct nod Kijima's work.

Transformers

2024-06-17T23:18:14Z

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'''''Transformers'' [Sep. 17 1984 - Nov. 11 1987][related: Megatron, Creation Matrix, Unicron]'''

Long format television show based on toy line by Japanese manufacturer Takara.
The show focused on a dystopian alternate reality populated by shape shifting
robots in which humans are incapable of any kind of meaningful interpersonal
contact, perhaps due to Social Panic and/or a mass reversion to a
[[bicameralism|bicameral]] mindstate. At the time of its initial release, ''Transformers'' was subject to widespread derision due in part to the unreality presented by Megatron's (the metallic lead villain) ability to drastically shrink the material volume of his form by up to 800% in order to be deployed as a handgun by fellow Decepticons Starscream or Soundwave while battling the Autobots. It was also initially unclear if either the Autobots or Decepticons were capable of procreation as they collectively appeared to be of one neutral gender. Upon the [[death-of-optimus|death of Optimus Prime]] né Orion Pax <ref> "Until all are one and rejoined in the Allspark of Primus". </ref>, the 5 million-year-old leader
of the Autobots, it was revealed that the lifeforce and religious beliefs of the
Autobots centered around the Creation Matrix - a crystal orb housed in Optimus
Prime's chest containing within it the digital imprint of all deceased Autobots.
Via this vast, almost limitless storage of information, the Matrix is able to impart sentient life force into newly designed machines. In this way, the Matrix is
positioned as the antithesis of the Unicron, a swirling "infinite void"
hellbent on dismantling the multiverse through "Unicron Phenomenon <ref> Notably portrayed by Orson Welles in his final acting role - he died months previous to the release of ''Transformers: The Movie'' (TFTM). </ref>" — a viral process estimated to have consumed approximately 84% of the multiverse <ref>Thought to be inspired by the Norse concept of [[error|Ragnarok]]. </ref> <ref> Comparable to dark matter (a hypothesized imperceptible substance of unknown origin that does not reflect, absorb, or emit light but is necessary to explain the gravitational motion of galaxies). </ref>. The intoxicating metaphysical substratum of Transformers lore was significantly undercut by the poorly received (even by children) crossover Devil's Due comic book series in which  [[gi-joe|GI Joe]], led by  [[destro|Destro]], reformats Autobots and Decepticons
alike to function as vehicles in Cobra's futile brigade.

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Transformers

2024-06-17T23:17:49Z

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My-nepenthe

2024-06-17T23:17:11Z

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'''''My Nepenthe'' [1989]'''

An ill-conceived and poorly reviewed television pilot named for an
[[error|ancient and mysterious Greek narcotic]]. The show was created and directed by [[steven-bochco|Steven Bochco]], a fly by night scholar of the antiquities. Canceled after just one airing, the show's convoluted plot involved an intricate web of time travel, sexual promiscuity, and [[error|cocaine]] trafficking. The show's opening credit sequence, scored by experimental progressive rock band [[octagon-of-dex|Octagon of Dex]], was notable for the use of anachronistic and geographically inaccurate stock footage.

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Andrei-tarkovsky

2024-06-17T23:16:25Z

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'''Andrei Tarkovsky [Apr. 4, 1932 - Dec. 29, 1986] [see also: ''Stalker, Solaris''] [related: ''Nostalghia, The Sacrifice'']'''

Sculptor of time [filmmaker] and documentarian of dreams [poet], the Russian artist Andrei Tarkovsky spent decades wrestling with the fundamentally ungraspable. The seven films of his ''oeuvre'' attempt poetic dialogue with what is irrevocably in-between or just beyond reach. Consequently, Tarkovsky's work is marked by a fascination with alien life [''[[solaris|Solaris]]''], the otherwise supernatural, the occult <ref> As evidenced by his fascination with
[[ninel-kulagina|Ninel Kulagina]]. </ref>, and the shrouded nature of deep desire [
''[[stalker|Stalker]]'']. A true mystic, Tarkvosky held great reverence for mythological systems, not for their symbology, but for their concrete ability to interact with the [[dharma|Emptiness]]. Whether through widespread climatological disaster or impending nuclear holocaust, Tarkovsky often used the apocalypse as a McGuffin, presenting strange ritual as its antidote. In ''The Sacrifice'', the film's central protagonist copulates with a witch while levitating to end World War III. And at the conclusion of ''Nostalghia'', an aimless poet must walk the entire length of an empty mineral bath with an unextinguished candle to prevent the end of the world. The poet's journey lasts a full 17-and-a half-minutes and is filmed in a single shot <ref> Chronologically speaking, his films feature scenes of increasingly brutal duration, limited action, slow-pacing, meticulous framing, and sparse/strange musical scoring. </ref>.

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Dido

2024-06-17T23:14:49Z

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'''Dido'''

The founder and leader of Carthage, a Phoenecian city-state located modern day Tunisia. Dido's relationship with the showboating Trojan hero Aeneas was widely and famously chronicled in Virgils' ''Aeneid''. Extant portrayals of Dido's character, background, and rise to prominence are widely contradictory. She was painted somewhat chauvinistically as a bashful and passive romantic by both Virgil and Henry Purcell, composer of the 1683 English language opera ''Dido and Aeneas''. Modern portrayals of Dido are more prone to factor in the bloodlust and ruthlessness required to conquer foreign lands in the Iron Age - REDACTED in fact presents Dido as a sexually liberated and violent yet highly principled leader riddled with guilt over her misguided infatuation with Aeneas, a modern day "sports bro".

[[File:Death_In_Carthage.mp4|500px]]

''Featuring the [[illuminati-quartet|Illuminati Quartet]].''

Dido

2024-06-17T23:14:38Z

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Dido

2024-06-17T23:12:12Z

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Dido

2024-06-17T23:11:50Z

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'''Dido'''

The founder and leader of Carthage, a Phoenecian city-state located modern day Tunisia. Dido's relationship with the showboating Trojan hero Aeneas was widely and famously chronicled in Virgils' ''Aeneid''. Extant portrayals of Dido's character, background, and rise to prominence are widely contradictory. She was painted somewhat chauvinistically as a bashful and passive romantic by both Virgil and Henry Purcell, composer of the 1683 English language opera ''Dido and Aeneas''. Modern portrayals of Dido are more prone to factor in the bloodlust and ruthlessness required to conquer foreign lands in the Iron Age - REDACTED in fact presents Dido as a sexually liberated and violent yet highly principled leader riddled with guilt over her misguided infatuation with Aeneas, a modern day "sports bro".

[[File:Death in Carthage.mp4|500px]]
''Featuring the Illuminati Quartet.''

Dido

2024-06-17T23:11:36Z

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'''Dido'''

The founder and leader of Carthage, a Phoenecian city-state located modern day Tunisia. Dido's relationship with the showboating Trojan hero Aeneas was widely and famously chronicled in Virgils' ''Aeneid''. Extant portrayals of Dido's character, background, and rise to prominence are widely contradictory. She was painted somewhat chauvinistically as a bashful and passive romantic by both Virgil and Henry Purcell, composer of the 1683 English language opera ''Dido and Aeneas''. Modern portrayals of Dido are more prone to factor in the bloodlust and ruthlessness required to conquer foreign lands in the Iron Age - REDACTED in fact presents Dido as a sexually liberated and violent yet highly principled leader riddled with guilt over her misguided infatuation with Aeneas, a modern day "sports bro".

[[File:Death in Carthage.mp4|500px|align=center]]
''Featuring the Illuminati Quartet.''

Wintermute

2024-06-17T23:10:32Z

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''''' wintermute'' [1986]'''

Despite the abstract setting and obscure vocabulary of
[[william-gibson|William Gibson]]'s ''Neuromancer'', the novel's cult success spawned a handful of attempts at dramatization. All failed... mostly spectacularly ''wintermute'', a spin-off television series launched in 1986 set entirely in an exorbitantly costly and brutally indecipherable analog rendition of cyberspace.

Although the show managed to distill the novel's somewhat convoluted plot into a slightly more conventional tragic adventure story, it was marred by a lack of conventional action and forward momentum. '' [[error|Ghost Hieroglyphs]]'', the series' pilot episode, contains multiple extended sequences of an unintentionally glitchy digital ocean, the longest of which spans over 1 minute and 23 seconds. Creator [[steven-bochco|Steven Bochco]] later disavowed participation in the development of ''wintermute'' after Ohio Valley test viewings resulted in aggressively negative audience reactions including two separate [possibly unrelated/bogus] episodes of induced seizure <ref> In the wake of the infamous " [//eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/pokemon-shock.html Pokémon Incident]", it was posited that ''wintermute'''s extended sequences of flashing block color squares could in fact be to blame. </ref>. The series was subsequently never aired. Despite the profound fiscal and dramatic failure of ''wintermute'', the project helped solidify creator Steven Bochco's reputation as a visionary in the field of experimental entertainment television. Unusual for a network program, the progressive rock group Octagon of Dex <ref> A name taken from Gibson's slang for [[narcotics]] in pill form in ''Neuromancer''. </ref> was hired to score the entirety of the series, including the show's now iconic opening credit sequence <ref> Also titled ''Octagon of Dex''. </ref>. Following the untimely cancellation of ''wintermute'', the group released material composed for the show as part of its debut (and only) commercially released album <ref> Also titled ''Octagon of Dex''. </ref>.

[[File:Wintermute.mp4|500px|align=center]]

My-nepenthe

2024-06-17T19:08:12Z

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Perfect-strangers

2024-06-17T19:03:54Z

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'''Perfect Strangers''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/love-theme-from-stalker.html Ω]</sup>

American sitcom crucial to the success of ABC's late '80s TGIF Friday-night line-up. The mildly racist show centered on Balki Bartokomous, a wide-eyed simpleton from the mythological Mediterranean island of Mypos recently transplanted to the midwestern megapolis of Chicago, Illinois.

[[File:perfect-strangers-img.jpg|500px|center=We open on the tranquil vista of a Chicagoan skyline. Delicate, wispy clouds stretch across the heavens, brushing the tips of skyscrapers. Yet our view is much more intimate, a tight zoom on an idyllic riverscape. The surrounding buildings only seem to frame the picture as our eye is drawn from right to left along a sweeping, elegant bridge... But what's this? A lone pilgrim, a sprightly young vessel, drifts merrily through the waters. It barely casts a wake, let alone a shadow -- passing below that resolute overpass. Though the boat follows its path without obstruction, the bridge draws a firm line through our panorama. Not only does it conceal the destination of our solitary subject, but it underscores the thunderous message of the piece. Held up high, splashing its way across our screens, reads the bold yellow text: PERFECT Strangers.]]

The-baroness

2024-06-17T19:03:13Z

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'''The Baroness AKA Anastasia DeCobray''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/house-of-destro.html Ω]</sup>

The Baroness, né Anastasia DeCobray, is a commander in the sinister communist/terrorist organization Cobra from the [[gi-joe|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]] franchise. Born in Himmelstein, Austria on November 22, 1957, The Baroness is the spawn of wealthy aristocratic (but highly neglectful) parents and was raised in a life of divine privilege and luxury. Approaching adulthood, the Baroness became increasingly disenchanted with her lavish existence and sought to explore avenues for undermining capitalist societal power structures. Enter… ''Cobra''! Undergoing rigorous training in various forms of combat and espionage, the Baroness quickly rose through the organization's ranks - her skills in hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, and espionage unparalleled amongst her fellow recruits. The Baroness' attire is predominantly black, with a red headscarf, and a pair of completely opaque sunglasses <ref> Her de facto signature element - she is often depicted as wearing sunglasses even at night or in non-combat situations. </ref>. Despite her nonchalant demeanor and calculating ruthlessness, The Baroness shares a [[destro|complex emotional relationship]] with Destro, a masked weapons-dealing colleague.

Blade-runner

2024-06-17T19:02:29Z

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'''''Blade Runner'' [related: Harrison Ford, Ridley Scott, Tyrell Corporation, Sean Young]''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/you-dont-know-br.html Ω]</sup>

Dystopian science fiction film released in 1982 and set in  Los Angeles. The production and release of ''Blade Runner'' was beset with complications and conflict mostly surrounding the unconventional methods of Ridley Scott <ref> Scott was, midway through production, fired from ''Blade Runner'' by the film's investors. He was however allowed to remain in situ after no suitable replacement emerged, especially considering the complexity of the set design and the incomplete status of the screenplay's ending. Scott's ceremonial firing did result in the loss of "final cut" privileges leading to numerous versions of the film-- according to Scott, this heavily contributed to the film's dismal initial opening. </ref> including his acrimonious relationship with lead actor Harrison Ford. Cast as Rick Deckard, an assassin hired to hunt and "retire" a group escaped slave-class bio-engineered humanoids known as replicants, Ford repeatedly insisted on script changes including removal of the film's voiceover resulting in numerous physical altercations with the director. ''Blade Runner'''s portrayal of the Tyrell Corporation as a "corporate behemoth intent on the reckless development of artificial intelligence for profit and power" predates the comparable
[[terminator|SkyNet]] of the [[terminator|''Terminator'']] series and the efforts of
[[error|Ma Bell]]. ''Blade Runner'' marked the career apex for the wild-haired starlet Sean Young, cast as Rachael Tyrell, the film's unwitting android ingenue. An extreme "method actress", Young was unable to differentiate her identity from Rachael's <ref> In schizophrenic terms, an [[alters|alter]] melt. </ref> in the wake of the film's success, conducting press junket interviews "in character". She spent the mid-late 1980's struggling with alcohol and [[narcotics|narcotic]] addiction, and was arrested in 1989 for leaving a violently disfigured and bloody doll on the doorstep of actor James Woods. She was later placed under citizen's arrest at the 69th Academy Awards for entering without a ticket (despite having commissioned a designer gown) and slapping a security guard across the face.

The screenplay for ''Blade Runner'' was adapted from ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' by the pioneering sci-fi writer and theologian
[[error|Philip K. Dick]] prior to his 2-3-74 "pink beam" epiphany. Upon achieving "cult status" in the mid-1990's however, Scott was finally allowed to edit the film's footage to his liking. The result, ''Blade Runner: The Final Cut'', stands as the most critically and financially successful version of the film.

Bitcoin

2024-06-17T19:01:52Z

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'''BitCoin [related: Satoshi Nakamoto, Paul Le Roux]''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/bitcoin-otherworld.html Ω]</sup>

A mysterious and controversial decentralized digital pseudo-currency invented in the late 1990s by a person or group of persons acting under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. Despite its lack of central control and shrouded origin, it has found support among celebrities (ex. [[steven-seagal|Steven Seagal]] <ref> See:[[steven-seagal|BitCoinGate]] </ref>) and, even, national governments (El Salvador). Currently, it is estimated that around 54% of BitCoin interactions involve illegal activity, including - but in no manner limited to - ransomware attacks (ex:
[[eternalblue|Eternal Blue]]), money laundering, and the digital purchase of illicit goods and information. Although Nakamoto's identity remains unconfirmed, many journalists claim him to be Paul Le Roux, a programmer and former drug cartel boss. Le Roux is currently serving as an informant for the US Drug Enforcement Agency after being convicted of [[narcotics]] trafficking. He later confessed to the murder of seven business associates and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. No verifiable electronic transmissions from Satoshi Nakamoto have been identified since the first day of Le Roux's incarceration.

[[File:Bitcoin-img.jpg|500px|center|alt=Atop a marble plaque stands a bust of Satoshi Nakamoto, depicted as a blank-featured metallic face shrouded in a dark hoodie. The hoodie bears the mark of Bitcoin.]]
Nakamoto in Budapest

Steven-bochco

2024-06-17T19:00:51Z

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'''Steven Bochco [Dec. 16, 1943 - Apr. 1, 2018, BFA Carnegie Mellon University, 1966]''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/beautiful-dreamer.html Ω]</sup>

Writer/producer of semi-impermanent and at times abstract sci-fi, legal and
law enforcement-based television dramas through the 1980's and early 1990's
including ''Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue'', and the never-aired
hyper-realistic Hawaiian-based series ''[[byrds-of-paradise|Byrds of Paradise]]''. Widely credited for the introduction of extended story arcs into weekly primetime dramas <ref> ''[[dallas|Dallas]]'' is seen as an early precursor to this approach. </ref>, Bochco is commonly known as the father of
experimental network television. As a showrunner, Bochco was notorious for
extremely risky and sometimes ill-advised production choices, resulting in the
almost immediate cancellation of multiple series: titles including the
cyberspace-based ''Neuromancer'' offshoot  ''[[wintermute]]'', the ''[[terminator|Terminator]]''-offshoot ''[[skynet-syndrome|SKYNET SYNDROME]]'', and ''[[my-nepenthe|My Nepenthe]]'', a time-travel/[[error|cocaine]] trafficking show taking place in both ancient and modern Greece. Born to a concert violinist, musical scoring, especially opening credits, were of vital import to Bochco <ref> ''[[dallas|Dallas]]'' is seen as an early precursor to this approach. </ref>. Throughout his oeuvre, music played an outsized role by contemporary standards <ref> Exceptions notwithstanding, ex:
[[jan-michael-vincent|Airwolf]], [[knight-rider|Knight Rider]], [[otherworld|Otherworld]], etc. </ref>- whether it be the choice to present ''Cop Rock'' as a musical, or his frequent engagement of the mildly progressive rock group [[octagon-of-dex|Octagon of Dex]] in the development of extended opening/closing sequences and in-episode montages.

Delorean

2024-06-17T18:59:50Z

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'''DeLorean [related: ''Back to the Future'']''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/dmc-oblivion.html Ω]</sup>

The sole automotive product produced by John DeLorean's DeLorean Motor Company
(DMC). The Delorean was notable for its stainless steel body
<ref> A notable exception being a series of three gold-plated models (out of a planned 100). Of these, two (VIN #4300 and #4301) were purchased by wealthy private individuals and the third was given away as part of a Big Lots store raffle (VIN #20105). </ref>, gullwing doors, and dismal manufacturing and performance. With a tepid top speed of 89 mph and horsepower of 130 (roughly the equivalent of a John Deere lawn tractor), the DeLorean failed to garner support from the fickle "sports car enthusiast" community. The DMC's first production car was completed in January 1981, and the company declared bankruptcy in December 1982 while John DeLorean was on trial for [[narcotics|cocaine]]
trafficking <ref> John DeLorean was eventually acquitted despite being found in possession of over 60 lbs. of cocaine. His lawyers successfully argued police entrapment via James Timothy Hoffman, an  [[error|FBI]]-informant and estranged former neighbor attempting to broker a reduced sentence for cocaine trafficking. It was claimed in trial that Hoffman approached DeLorean because of his widely publicized financial difficulties - in fact DeLorean concluded his own court testimony by offering a steep discount on used models of his car to the judge and court stenographer.</ref>. Despite its fiscal
failings, the DeLorean remains a locus point of public [[technostalgia]]
in large part due to its inclusion in the ''Back to the Future'' film franchise
<ref> As differentiated from the 1990 [[nes|NES]] game ''Back to the Future Part II & III'', a title with notoriously awkward gameplay requiring the player to spend upwards of 6 hours hand mapping chasms in the spacetime continuum. Features such as the "acorn effect" involved planting acorns in past timelines in order to use fully grown trees to access higher spaces (necessary due to the game's lack of a jump button). The game is thought to be unintentionally unwinnable - each timeline jump generates a "Marty clone" capable of neutralizing the player with the slightest touch. Informal calculations from within the gaming community claim that virtually all available pixels would be coded as "Marty clone" by game's end, making movement essentially impossible.
</ref> starring [[michael-j-fox|Michael J. Fox]]. Throughout the film series, a
DeLorean modified with a plutonium generator breaks the time/space continuum by achieving the top speed of 88 miles an hour.

''"These shambles, this wreckage of platinum and chrome. This is our future
spectre. It is in the paths dreamed but not taken, those unconsecrated
grasps at a utopian light that we feel the ghost-touch of our
imaginings."''

[[File:delorean-img.jpg|500px|center|alt=A high-def photograph of a silver Delorean in 3/4 perspective, its doors raised high like a hawk's wings as it descends upon its prey.]]

Cenobites

2024-06-17T18:59:13Z

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'''Cenobites [related: ''Hellraiser'']''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/solemn-simulacrum.html Ω]</sup>

A class of monks (most commonly [[Christianity|Christian]] or [[dharma|Buddhist]]) known for the forming of "eremitic communities". Governed by a set of simple religious precepts, cenobites sever their contact with the outside world entirely and interact only with members of their sect or group. Due to their extreme isolation, cenobitic communities have been known to exhibit a "collective mental state <ref>
A term coined by [[imago|Sigmund Freud]] later applied to any manner of communal delusion including [[error|Dancing Mania]], [[error|Satanic Panic]], and, tangentially, the Pokémon Shock Incident. Later extended by [[immanuel-velikovsky|Immanuel Velikovsky]] to include the phenomenon of "collective amnesia". </ref>" - an inward facing spiraling mindmeld of delusion resulting, at times, in the perversion of their foundational beliefs. The term ''cenobite'' was appropriated for the Order of the Gash, a small league of extra-dimensional
[[daemon|daemons]] featured in Clive Barker's ''Hellraiser'' franchise of film and literature. Barker presents his Cenobites [re: capitalized] as morally ambiguous self-mutilating purveyors of the extreme no longer able to differentiate between pleasure and pain. The Order of the Gash is summoned by solving (intentionally or otherwise) the Lament Configuration, a puzzle box originally commissioned <ref> With the purpose of calling a [[incubus|succubus]] to occupy the empty flesh of his skinned-alive mistress. </ref> by the pervy French aristocrat Duc de L'Isle in 1784.

[[File: cenobites-img.jpg|500px|center]]

''A schism in time/space opens. Slow dissolve to the realm of the Cenobites. Hell as a neverending Labyrinth…''

Chris-marker

2024-06-17T18:58:33Z

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'''Chris Marker AKA Christian Hippolyte François Georges Bouche-Villeneuve [Jul. 29 1921 - Jul. 29 2012]''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/i-love-you-chris-marker.html Ω]</sup>

French writer, photojournalist, filmmaker, and essayist. Of particular
note is his short film ''La Jetée'' and his features ''Sans Soleil'' (''Sunless'') and ''Level Five'', both of which feature a french female narrator and a focus on retro-futuristic digital technologies. At times, the [[vpd|virtual portal functionality]] (VPD) of Marker's work can be said to share properties with those of certain [[nes|NES]] titles and '90's [[microsoft|Windows]]™ applications. His work is often
characterized by the development of various [[codex|CODEX]] systems and a deep and sustained examination of boredom as it pertains to the persistence of cultural ritual
resulting from over-industrialization:

''"I've been 'round the world several times and now only banality still interests me. On this trip I've tracked it with the relentlessness of a bounty hunter. At dawn we'll be in Tokyo."''

Brutalism

2024-06-17T18:57:42Z

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'''Brutalism''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/wisconsin-yr-so-brutalist.html Ω]</sup>

[[File:brutalism-img-1.jpg|500px|center|alt=Black and white photograph looking up at a concrete building, its geometric pillars and homogeneous gratings casting striking shadows.]]

[[File:brutalism-img-2.jpg|500px|center|alt=A wider angle of a brick and concrete brutalist building, formed of interlocking simple shapes and sharp angles.]]

Ref# :: University of Wisconsin, Madison :: ''Department of Social Sciences Building''

The Bogdanov Twins

2024-06-17T18:56:58Z

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'''The Bogdanov Twins AKA The Bogdanoff Twins [related: The Bogdanov Affair, Megatrend University]''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/you-dont-know-br.html Ω]</sup>

Twin French physicists with the given names Grichka and Igor known largely for their bulbous chins and vision-limiting-ly high cheekbones <ref>They deny ever having cosmetic surgery, instead attributing the lack of wrinkles and ripened facial structure to "topical cryogenics". </ref>. The Bogdanov twins are credited in their home country for stoking considerable public interest in the outer reaches of physics, cosmology, and advanced mathematics. Times X, their extraordinarily popular science program aired weekly on French National Television from 1979 to 1989. Highly accredited, both brothers received doctorates from the University of Burgundy - Igor's in theoretical physics and Grichka's in mathematics. In the early 1990's, various [[error|Usenet]] discussion groups conducted a systematic analysis of the Bogdonav's collective publication of the seminal essay "Topological field theory of the initial singularity of spacetime" in the journal ''Classical and Quantum Gravity'' (CQG). The paper was found to be almost entirely nonsensical, intermingling terminology from string theory and cosmology with generally representational but structurally meaningless equation after equation. The paper was peer reviewed and approved by publication by Roman Jackiw of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - an aging European physicist who stood by his recommendation despite "not being able to parse most of the maths". Ignatios Antoniadis of the École Polytechnique, the paper's other steward, later admitted to reading only the first few paragraphs of the document while on vacation in Seychelles. Smelling blood, the Usenet community continued its crusade, discrediting additional essays including "The KMS state of spacetime at the Planck scale", published in the ''Chinese Journal of Physics'', and the related "KMS space-time at the Planck scale", featured in Nuovo Cimento. Both papers used advanced quantum theory to provide insight into the dawn of the universe - yielding a new model dubbed "neon dawn" after the prominence of said element in the aftermath of the big bang. Collectively, their published work, once highly touted, was found to be on par with the Sokal affair<ref>AKA the Sokal Hoax - refers to the publication of a purposefully nonsensical essay by Alan Sokal entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", published in the academic journal Social Text's spring/summer 1996 "Science Wars" issue. The paper, submitted in an attempt to discredit the widely employed peer review process, proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct - a poorly supported but theoretically convincing argument peppered with leftist-leaning jargon that, despite its admitted falsities, continues to gain traction in the metaphysical and Buddhist-adjacent communities.</ref>, leading to the untimely termination of the twin's television contract, a process of discreditation known commonly as the Bogdanov affair<ref> It is worth noting that the twins were highly successful in litigating attacks on their work and character. Despite the conclusions put forward by the Usenet community, the Bogdanov's ideas were never formally disproven within the legal system - and numerous substantial settlements were awarded in their favor. </ref>. Subsequent to their fall from grace, both brothers accepted positions at Megatrend University in Belgrade, a high cost for-profit institution funded by Slobodan Milošević, who was later tried and found guilty of mass genocide by The Hague. The school's flamboyant and magnetic founder, Mića Jovanović, was later found to have plagiarized his doctoral thesis in its entirety. Following Megatrend's dissolution, the twins relocated to Los Angeles to more deeply explore recent advances in the fields of aerobics and kinesiology.

[[File: Bog.png]]

Lesser-key-of-solomon

2024-06-17T18:56:24Z

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'''''The Lesser Key of Solomon'' [AKA ''The Grimoire of Solomon'' aka ''The Legemeton'']''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/the-grimore-of-solomon.html Ω]</sup>

An anonymous and essentially pseudo-biographical book on demonology commonly
attributed to the biblical figure [[lesser-key-of-solomon|Solomon]]
commonly known as ''The Legemeton''. It appears to have been compiled in the 17th Century, with much of the text bearing stark resemblance to Johann Weyer's
''Psuedomonarchia Daemonum''. Structurally, ''The Legemeton'' is
divided into five books, ''Ars Goetia, Ars Theurgia-Goetia, Ars Paulina, Ars Almadel'', and ''Ars Notoria''. Notably, the ''Ars Goetia'' contains a
comprehensive list of all 72 demons and their various rankings. In 1904 a
version of ''The Legemeton'' titled ''The Book of Goetia of Solomon the King'' edited by Samuel Lidell.

MacGregor Mathers was published by  [[error|Aleister Crowley]], including additional evocations in the [[enochian|Enochian]]
language and a series of essays portraying the described rituals as means of introspective exploration (aka focused meditation) as opposed to summoning.

[[File:lesser-key-img.png|500px|center|alt=72 Goeta sigils]]

The 72 sigils.

Ref#''[[solomons-key|Hidden Level]]'':: [[nes|NES]]

Solomons-key

2024-06-17T18:56:05Z

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'''''Solomon's Key'' [Tecmo, 1986][related: Michiharu Hasuya]''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/the-grimore-of-solomon.html Ω]</sup>

A 1987 [[nes|NES]] title in which a Taoist Monk <ref> Leading to accusations of Judeo-Christian centrism and the malicious orientalism of Eastern worldviews seen by many to have taken root in World War II and the subsequent [[error|Japanese Economic Miracle]]. </ref> releases the horde of demons described in ''[[lesser-key-of-solomon|The Legemeton]]'' after accidentally finding the key to the Constellation Sign. Based on a succession
of 50 stages of exponentially increasing difficulty oriented around the signs
of the Zodiac, ''Solomon's Key'' is commonly known as the most difficult
title to ever be released on the system, with no reported successful
completions. It is widely speculated that either stage 48 or 49 (known colloquially as the Hidden Levels) represents the
vanishing point of forward progress, though various Wiccan "mystic-hacks" have
been reported successful in allowing progress to the game's mysterious final
stage, including the drawing of pentagrams using an E-Pen and the chanting of
"Bael" through a techno-hack vocoder. The 1998 Japanese horror film ''[[ringu|Ringu]]'' was reportedly based in part on urban legends surrounding various unexplained and unsubstantiated spectral and metaphysical phenomena associated with Level 50. Music by Michiharu Hasuya <ref> Including an experimental soundtrack to one of the games "[[hidden-level|hidden levels]" representing the video game industry's first instance of poly-tonal, aleatorically generated scoring. The theme was reportedly originally scored for string quartet and then transcribed by hand for 8-bit realization and includes a rudimentary algorithmic component allowing it to continually morph for an indeterminate and reportedly infinite length of time. Later leaked on
[[internet|the internet]] as a deep web live stream, the theme lead to numerous reports of [[apeirophobia|apeirophobic]] attacks. </ref>.

[[File:hidden-level.mp4|500px|center]]
Footage of the Hidden Levels.

Socotra

2024-06-17T18:55:07Z

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'''Socotra AKA Soqotra''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/virtual-sword-of-damocles.html Ω]</sup>

An secessionist island off the coast of The Republic of Yemen in the Indian Ocean currently under the control of the UAE. Extraordinarily isolated for thousands of years, Socotra is commonly known as "the most alien-looking place on earth". It is estimated that up to 34% of its flora is endemic, including the startingly strange Dragon's Blood "upside down" tree.

[[File:socotra-img.jpg|500px|center|alt=The flourishing, yet somehow barren, plains of Socotra.]]

Dillinger-is-dead

2024-06-17T18:54:28Z

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'''''Dillinger is Dead'' [related: Papeete, John Herbert Dillinger]''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/dillinger-is-dead.html Ω]</sup>

A 1969 film by Marco Ferreri starring Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, and
Annie Girardot remarkable for its juxtaposition of domestic banality and ultra
violence. Here "Dillinger" refers not to the film's protagonist but to the Great Depression-era John Herbert Dillinger, infamous for his gangster bravado and flamboyant personality. The federal government used the pursuit of Dillinger to rationalize the development of the Federal Bureau of Investigations ([[error|F.B.I.]]) and subsequently increasingly sophisticated (and invasive) techniques of interrogation and surveillance (the legality of which were subsequently questioned in court by actor/historian [[studs-terkel|Studs Terkel]]). Ferreri's film ends with the central character inexplicably uxoricide by shooting his wife in the head and boarding a boat to Papeete, Tahiti, a locale associated largely with artist Paul Gauguin's depiction of prepubescent nascent sexual deviance - the black sand of its beaches later becoming slang (see: Urban Dictionary) for various [[narcotics]] including heroin, morphine, and "downtown brown".

Panopticon

2024-06-17T18:54:10Z

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'''Panopticon''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/bitcoin-otherworld.html Ω]</sup>

Designed in the 18th-century by British philosopher Jeremy Bentham, the founder of modern utilitarianism, a panopticon is a combo physical structure/control system based on the concept of induced paranoia <ref> Similar in flavor to the paranoia experienced by longtime users of [[narcotics]] and [[error|psychedelic]] drugs. </ref>. Occupants of a panopticon are positioned in such a way as to be unable to tell if they are being watched. The term was traditionally most associated with Bentham's controversial prison design in which a towering concrete octagon of cells opens inward to a circular raised guard station encased in tinted glass <ref> An early flaw in Bentham's design involved the visibility of cigarette cherries through even the darkest glass - an issue later mitigated with the development of electronic cigarettes, or, as they are colloquially known, vapes. </ref>. However, throughout the 1980's, the term was adapted by many philosophers and social theorists to describe the disquieting onset of digital surveillance culture as employed by the
[[error|CIA]], [[error|FBI]], and large techno-communications conglomerates like [[error|Ma Bell]].

[[File:panopticon-img.jpg|500px|center|alt=Illustration from the haunting perspective of a panopticon cell. A figure lies prostrate before you, head bowed toward the watch-tower. There are dozens of identical cell windows lining the walls around it.]]

Hadean-lands

2024-06-17T18:53:55Z

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'''''Hadean Lands'' [related: The Halting Problem]''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/hadean-lands.html Ω]</sup>

A Web 1.0 text-based system of interactive fiction. The platform received notoriety for its [[error|Occultist]] undertones and startlingly sophisticated [[ai|A.I.]]
interface. Although the name directly references the [[hades|Greek Underworld]], the Hadean Lands narrative actually unfolds in "an alien, airless wasteland" comparable to a "vast chasm" or 
"[[error|endless white space]]". The program is notable in part for its creative employment of "the halting problem <ref> The problem of determining whether or not a computation or series of computations is finite or infinite in nature. </ref>" as a cybernetically embedded pitfall of raw code.

''"Like water from stone - structure from [[dharma|The Emptiness]]."''

Hadean-lands

2024-06-17T18:53:18Z

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'''''Hadean Lands'' [related: The Halting Problem]''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/bitcoin-otherworld.html Ω]</sup>

A Web 1.0 text-based system of interactive fiction. The platform received notoriety for its [[error|Occultist]] undertones and startlingly sophisticated [[ai|A.I.]]
interface. Although the name directly references the [[hades|Greek Underworld]], the Hadean Lands narrative actually unfolds in "an alien, airless wasteland" comparable to a "vast chasm" or 
"[[error|endless white space]]". The program is notable in part for its creative employment of "the halting problem <ref> The problem of determining whether or not a computation or series of computations is finite or infinite in nature. </ref>" as a cybernetically embedded pitfall of raw code.

''"Like water from stone - structure from [[dharma|The Emptiness]]."''

Panopticon

2024-06-17T18:53:06Z

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'''Panopticon''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/hadean-lands.html Ω]</sup>

Designed in the 18th-century by British philosopher Jeremy Bentham, the founder of modern utilitarianism, a panopticon is a combo physical structure/control system based on the concept of induced paranoia <ref> Similar in flavor to the paranoia experienced by longtime users of [[narcotics]] and [[error|psychedelic]] drugs. </ref>. Occupants of a panopticon are positioned in such a way as to be unable to tell if they are being watched. The term was traditionally most associated with Bentham's controversial prison design in which a towering concrete octagon of cells opens inward to a circular raised guard station encased in tinted glass <ref> An early flaw in Bentham's design involved the visibility of cigarette cherries through even the darkest glass - an issue later mitigated with the development of electronic cigarettes, or, as they are colloquially known, vapes. </ref>. However, throughout the 1980's, the term was adapted by many philosophers and social theorists to describe the disquieting onset of digital surveillance culture as employed by the
[[error|CIA]], [[error|FBI]], and large techno-communications conglomerates like [[error|Ma Bell]].

[[File:panopticon-img.jpg|500px|center|alt=Illustration from the haunting perspective of a panopticon cell. A figure lies prostrate before you, head bowed toward the watch-tower. There are dozens of identical cell windows lining the walls around it.]]

He-man

2024-06-17T18:52:32Z

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'''He-Man and the Masters of the Universe [related: Skeletor, Castle Grayskull, Donald F. Glut] [Disambiguation: Masters of Deception]''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/he-man-and-the-masters-of-the-universe.html Ω]</sup>

A mythologically-based fantasy toy line and television show that reached its apex of popularity in the late 1980's. Commonly referred to as either ''MOTU'', or, simply, ''He-Man'', the television series emerged shortly after the composition of the legendarily shrouded "MOTU Bible" by amateur paleontologist Donald F. Glut. Premiering in 1982, ''MOTU'' was the first syndicated show based entirely around a line of toys, preceding both [[gi-joe|G.I. Joe]] and [[transformers|Transformers]], two wildly popular subsequent series with similarly extensive mythological build-outs. ''MOTU'' was controversial at the time due to the overt sexualization of its partially nude characters (both male and female) and the introduction of punching and stabbing - actions that had previously been censored in mainstream cartoons <ref> Censorship circumvented by the introduction of "stinger lessons" (A technique also employed in the far more violent G.I. Joe series, premiering in 1984), brief PSAs featuring He-Man and/or other prominent MOTU characters. Examples include the discouragement of [[narcotics]] use or the dangers of pre-marital sex. Ironically, MOTU's "stinger lessons" often included the introduction of new characters in the series, coinciding with their distribution onto toy store shelves across America (and beyond).</ref>. He-Man stood as figurehead for the MOTU universe, an extensive mythological world based on the planet Eternia. Much of ''MOTU''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s episodic drama centered around Castle Grayskull, a fortress containing all the wisdom in the universe that functions as both power source and safe abode for He-Man and his compatriots. Although Glut's Bible only alludes to Grayskull's mysterious origin, "Into the Abyss", ''MOTU'''s 83rd episode, reveals the castle to be built over a bottomless chasm, an infinitude responsible for the structure's almost limitless power. Harnessing the power of the chasm whilst withstanding waves of [[apeirophobia]] is the job of The Sorceress, a scantily clad woman in her early fifties that turns into a falcon when exiting the castle gates. The primary challenger to the throne of Grayskull is the villainous Skeletor
<ref> In later MOTU lore, Skeletor was widely speculated to be Keldor, long lost brother of King Randor, He-Man's father.</ref>, a former minion of Hordak, leader of the Evil Horde. Skeletor's relationship with Hordak and his Horde is complex and, at times, contradictory. Although Skeletor is often portrayed as having been exiled to Eternia after betraying Hordak, he notably teamed up with Hordak's nefarious mentor, Hordak Prime, in effort to rid the world of Christmas spirit in the 1985 one off ''He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special''.

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'''Periaqueductal Grey (AKA PAG, Central Grey)''' <sup>[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/od-on-vaporwave.html Ω]</sup>

A cluster of neurons in the human brain peripheral to the cerebral aqueduct.
PAG takes the form of gray matter and plays a central function in analgesia
(pain reduction), abstract mania (see: [[apeirophobia]]), and autonomic responses to threatening stimuli. The PAG's high concentration opioid receptors are activated by many [[narcotics]] including morphine, hydrocodone, and oxycodone. Natural PAG opioid stimulants include waves of extreme nostalgia, teenage fellatio, and
[[dharma|Dharmic]] transcendence of self. The PAG plays a central role in "fight or flight response": extreme and stimulation of the area due to real (or imagined) threat can lead to a misleadingly lackadaisical posture known as quiescence
<ref> A state marked in extreme cases by 1) complete immobility 2) a
feigned smile often read as disingenuous and 3) sudden visualization of an
endless white void and/or the feeling of gradually sinking into an endless

[[error|non-spatial abyss]]. </ref>. Overstimulated PAG can become
activated pathologically resulting in dysregulation - a state commonly
associated with the development of various forms of psychosis, most notably
induced [[schizophrenia|schizophrenic]] [[bicameralism]].