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title = "ρan-ρan",
abstract = "Preface: Prof Simon O'SullivanOutro: Dismal SwampThis boke of theory-fiction consists of six chapters, split into three parts. All six chapters are set in a larger @neoflagellants{\textquoteright} con-world. Because this neo-medieval conworld provides a non-linear narrative within which all of our work operates, the boke connects with other works in the @neoflagellants corpys as well as the medievalisms of other scholars and artists (what Simon O{\textquoteright}Sullivan terms fictioning{\textquoteright}s practice of {\textquoteleft}world-building{\textquoteright}). It remains evident, however, that the boke is set in our own non-modern {\textquoteleft}middle{\textquoteright}, that it concerns the medievalisms we continue to inhabit, how they came to be and where they might be heading.Our boke is predicated on a fictional corpys that consists of three parts: Part A: The Corpys (Protocanonical), Part B: The Imitation Doxa (Deuterocanonical), Part C: Let us know about anything wrong, or anything you don{\textquoteright}t like about this review, and you could win a $50 Amazon voucher! (Hermeneutics/Scriptorium)Preface i): This Dismal SwampPreface ii): Professor Simon O'SullivanPart A The Corpys (Protocanonical)1. Voices of the Future Dead2. Trial by Future DeadPart A of pan-pan consists of two Chapters that establish a fictive epistemology derived from the boke{\textquoteright}s ontology corpys/ontology. We have developed a way of writing with generative adversarial networks (GAN) that is akin to the role performed by an oracle. This deliberately restricted protocanonical corpys is the basis of the entire boke{\textquoteright}s ontology. This section fictions a research methodology, then generates quantitative and qualitative {\textquoteleft}data{\textquoteright} using these fictional methods in the search for a {\textquoteleft}tru corpys{\textquoteright} of knowledge. The data generated constitutes a key part of the boke{\textquoteright}s protocanonical corpys. Mixing the Scholastic method with assemblage theory and GAN, this data has been re-animated to perform a neomedieval trial of itself.Chapter 1: Voices of the Future Dead: The first chapter is a hermuenetic fiction that expands and develops an @neoflagellants track we released with Punctum Records in 2014. The episode is composed using an EVP field recorder to jammmmm radio static into {\textquoteleft}voices of the future dead{\textquoteright}. The voices are transcribed. The transcriptions are then developed into a research methodology using the medieval Scholastic method (which, of course, assumed that there is a very limited corpys of knowledge). In our case this is the aforementioned @neoflagellants protocanonical corpys.Chapter 2: {\textquoteleft}Trial By Future Dead{\textquoteright} is based on a work @neoflagellants made for #MAM02017. It animates the voices of the future dead in the form of a medieval deodand trial. The deodand on trial is a $50 Amazon Gift Voucher Polyresin Rooster assemblage, the plaintiff a dead Fox represented via Electronic Voice Phenomenon. The trial practices anachronistic research methods of {\textquoteleft}compurgation{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}ordeal{\textquoteright} to investigate the veracity of testimony developed using GAN in ways that implicitly relate to current new materialist debates. Part B: The Imitation Doxa (Deuterocanonical)The second part of the boke features three episodes of {\textquoteleft}Scripture{\textquoteright}. It draws on recent anthropological research into fiction-based religions as well as fictioning and feminist research on depression/acedia. The three chapters in this section are written from the particular perspective of a different narrator:Chapter 3. Muller Ltd.Chapter 4. WeRLtd!Chapter 5. MInTOone80FiveThe narrators (Solution Aligners) are recurring characters within the @neoflagellants conworld and are known to perform neomedieval, neo-materialist and {\textquoteleft}weird{\textquoteright} methodological, epistemological and ontological biases. Each performs in a different narrative point-of-view (ala Percy Lubbock). The narrators account for the object-history of a group of key character-things and person-objects (which we call avatars). The avatars have already been established in previous @neoflagellants works.Each chapter is performed in a different literary genre mash-up (in-flight magazine profile/seeker pitch, wanderjahre/game walkthrough, pharma/WWF Battle) written with GAN and SSRI {\textquoteleft}partial-assist{\textquoteright}. The chapters were written in, and are set in, a conflation of under/overground Canadian mall-networks: RE{\'S}O (Montr{\'e}al), PATH (Toronto), Minto 185 (Ottawa) and the +15 (Calgary). Each chapter develops different aspects of the fictive epistemology established in Part A into a belief system resembling A Canticle for Leibowitz.Part C: (is also Chapter 6) Let us know about anything wrong, or anything you don{\textquoteright}t like about this review, and you could win a $50 Amazon voucher! (Hermeneutics/Scriptorium)The final part/chapter of the boke is a series of hyper-economic {\textquoteleft}reviews{\textquoteright} - in the threefold hermeneutic modes of allegoricus, moralis, anagogicus - that Confraternity of Neoflagellants wrote and posted on amazon.ca (our {\textquoteleft}Scriptorium{\textquoteright}) for items and services (actants) that we have purchased since 2015. Since the items are actants in Part A and Part B of the boke, the amazon.careviews constitute a form of {\textquoteleft}relic-ing{\textquoteright}. For us, art that practices the cultural biography of things, (re)locates, implaces and authenticates the object as {\textquoteleft}a relational hub or conduit within a network of inter-human subjectivities.{\textquoteright} (Neoflagellants 2013, 189) In this chapter, we assemble the hyper-economic relic-ing of actants in the amazon.ca Scriptorium and adjust their exegesis to align with the epistemology GAN-fictioned in Parts A and B to produce a factive assemblage. ",
keywords = "neomedievalism, nonmodern, mythotechnesis, fictioning, theory-fiction, contemporary art, medievalisms, weirding, weird studies, weird materialism, meta-programming, esotericism, resonance, spooky action, Cultic Milieu, seekers, transpersonhood, parasitism, religious studies, Deanthropotechnics, Mismorphism, hauntology, biofeedback, ρanarchy, clickbait, world-making, LARP, gamespace, bleed",
author = "Neil Mulholland and Norman Hogg",
note = "Published July 1st 2021; pan-pan : Confraternity of Neoflagellants ; Conference date: 02-10-2019 Through 02-11-2019",
year = "2021",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.53288/0304.1.00",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781953035608",
publisher = "Punctum Books",
url = "https://www.sawvideo.com/knot/home",
}