Pillars of the Earth

 live at abc no rio. from the forthcoming release RITUALS on (vvv)

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From the split with Drudgery "Against The Singularity" on (vvv)

///AGAINST THE SINGULARITY///

The future of the technological singularity, for those privileged by capital, is a catalogued future--tracked and tagged with metadata, artificial intelligences mapping our movements via GPS and hyperlocation data, linking it with surveillance footage and photos we post of ourselves online, combing our social networks and developing maps of our acquaintances and psychological profiles from our status updates (for targeting dissidents, deviants, and of course for ubiquitous targeted advertising).

It is a simulated future.  

A future of producing virtual goods for sale in virtual worlds. Of farming virtual farms for micropayments, in hopes of paying off ballooning credit card debt and student loans, and affording skyrocketing rents (driven higher and higher by more “efficient” models of real estate development and the ability to trade derivatives at quantum speeds with supercomputers running algorithms day and night).A future of lonely atomized beings desperately searching for each other in a sea of technology that separated us to begin with.

The future of the technological singularity for those capital sees as expendable--indigenous populations, the rural poor, urban poor, slum dwellers, ecological systems, animals, and any and all beings whose form of life is deemed to be in the way of economic production or technological advancement--is one of annihilation, toxic and nuclear contamination, famine, thirst, economic deprivation and deadly infrastructure failures.

The coming technological singularity in all of its guises is nothing but yet another form of the delusion of western industrial civilization. Of its death urge. Its violence. Its continued denial of the rights of the many in service of the fantasies of a small elite. 

In service of the delusion that they will never die. That they can become cyborgs or upload their consciousness into the cloud. That a technological god of their own creation will come to carry them to everlasting life. In service of the delusional fantasy that industrial/technological development can and should continue.

The megacoporations, politicians, satellite defense companies, capitalist computer programmers, mainstream media outlets, and all others who seek out or promote the technological singularity are destroying life as we know it on this planet and they call it knowledge, progress, and technological advancement.

The majority of the population follows these high priests of technology, in spite of their reservations, acknowledging them as experts, oracles able to comb the vast records of human data to tell us who we are and what its all about. All the while the mass of office drones who populate the fashionable cities and sprawling suburbs of the western world worship the golden idols of consumer technology with religious fervor.

But god does not live in the machine. Industrial and technological development have always relied on exploitation. And those peddling eternal life and secret knowledge are never to be trusted. Accept that someday you will die and choose life while you still can.

Fight the technological singularity.

Satellites to Plowshares!

///ANCHORITES///

Brace The Sky (Against The Singularity)

future doom collective from Brooklyn’s industrial wasteland