Under the Dome

Organisational Management is founded upon the elimination of philosophy. This whole campus. Upon the destruction of questioning.

Organisational Management can’t ask the question of itself. Can’t pose it. The question is too vast. The question will destroy it …

 

The question of God: do you think you could you ask that on the Organisational Management campus?

Organisational Management thinks it’s got God contained. God has a place. And philosophy has a place. And God can do his God thing, and philosophy can do its philosophy thing, and all’s well and good. And Organisational Management can do is – vast – Organisational Management thing. It’s all-encompassing Organisational Management thing.

 

Organisational Management has us under its dome. Contained. With its Organisational Management version of the sky. With its Organisational Management version of stars. With Organisational Management snow, God knows. It’s absolute containment.

Poison

What have they done to the rain? They can’t even leave the rain alone. It’s full of strontium. And barium. And things to fuck us up.

And this isn’t real snow. This is fucked up snow. They’ve done bad stuff to it. It doesn’t fall right. It doesn’t melt right.

This isn’t a real night, either, I’ll bet. That isn’t a real sky. They might as well have placed a dome over it all.

Maybe they have …

And this isn’t real air – that we’re breathing. There’s something wrong with the air. What have they put in the air? What have they done to the air?

They’d fuck up the sun, if they could. They’d poison the sun. Just like they’ve poisoned the earth. Like they’ve poisoned our fucking minds. And our hearts.

Our Attitude

We’re owning this campus. We’re walking it like God sent us. We’re, like, Organisational Management anti-Messiahs.

You wish! All mouth and no fucking trousers. All attitude. All righteous fury, and for what? We were summoned to a party, and we came. We fucking RSVP’d …

We came with attitude.

They’ll laugh at our attitude. Fuck, they won’t even notice our attitude.

Our Attitude

We’re owning this campus. We’re walking it like God sent us. We’re, like, Organisational Management anti-Messiahs.

You wish! All mouth and no fucking trousers. All attitude. All righteous fury, and for what? We were summoned to a party, and we came. We fucking RSVP’d …

We came with attitude.

They’ll laugh at our attitude. Fuck, they won’t even notice our attitude.

Geothermal Demons

There’s so much of it. This campus is, like, miles across. How did they fit it all in? The original site wasn’t that big. There must be some multidimensional thing going on. Some Tardis-like magic.

 

And it’s all powered by geothermal energy. From the earth.

Is that true?

They’re drilling down and down and down. They sent down some, like, bore. It’s about two miles deep now.

Where’s it going?

In search of energy – geothermal energy.

Maybe they’re trying to open a portal.

To what? To where?

To Hell, probably. Are there, like, geothermal demons?

Livability

Reading the plaques.

Creating a home for the world’s brightest minds.

They’re dreamers and doers, apparently. They can make what is impossible happen, it says here. A global community of visionary minds. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Adventurous spirits. Thought leaders. Changemakers. This is where innovation can be ignited, socialised, engineered and tested. You can’t go wrong, can you? Providing next generation technologies. Delivering livability, apparently. What’s that, I wonder?

Furio, reading the education mission. Pushing back the frontiers of learning. Driving cross disciplinary innovation and impact. Piloting new ways of living. Empowering societal progress. Building community. Keeping pace with the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Fostering knowledge and skills in an engaging learning environment.

It’s a vibrant research and innovation ecosystem, imagine. Sounds fantastic.

They’re into personalised upskilling, it says here. Into education as a lifelong experience.

Continuous professional development. Inquiry-based, experiential learning. Fostering creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. A flexible curriculum, responding to economic needs. Real world problem solving. You can’t complain, can you? And all in partnership with global high tech industry …

The Humanities

The conditions for the humanities have disappeared. We can see that. There’s no place for the humanities anymore.

But it’s only now that the humanities can appear as such. In their perfectly uselessness. In their perfect superfluity. Insofar as they do not matter – not to this world. Not according to its reckoning.

 

The humanities, forced to justify themselves on the enemy’s terms. In the enemy’s vocabulary. The humanities, forced to talk about transferrable skills. About the uses of the humanities in business. Abut their fostering of business-relevant communication skills.

The humanities can’t survive. Or if they do so, it’s only as a shell of themselves. As husk-history. As hollowed-out literature. As phantom history of art.

The Remnant

I’m actually impressed by the Organisational Management victory. I’m actually moved by the Organisational Management triumphalism. It’s so fucking sublime. I mean, it is, isn’t it? They’ve really done it, haven’t they?

While we … what? While we fucked around in our bedrooms. While we tried to read really hard philosophy and then got stoned instead. These people are high achievers, whilst we …

 

All our leftism dreams of liberatory urbanism. What good psychogeography now? They’ve built psychogeography into the campus. That’s how you find your way about: psychogeography. Only it’s psychogeographic nudging that’s leading us. Their nudging.

 

The false light of this campus. The false salvation of this campus. Its false kingdom. This is the city of the anti-God. This is the antichrist’s city. The liar’s kingdom. Trust none of this.

 

It’s Babel all over again. Don’t they know what happened the first time?

 

We’re the last of the humanities. The remnant. The chosen ones.

That seems pretty fucking presumptuous.

 

Fiver understands. Fiver sees through it all. What’s real and what’s not, Fiver? Explain. Tell us what we should see.

Resistance is Futile

Crossing the campus.

I can’t believe we’re still alive. I can believe that we’re still – actually – alive. It’s amazing, isn’t it? In a world that’s this disgusting.

It’s amazing that we haven’t just burst into flames in our disgust. In our being appalled.

It’s amazing that the world hasn’t destroyed itself out of some vast self-loathing. That the world – their world – hasn’t just exploded. Out of some vast disgust. Some enormous horror.

 

It’s designed to induce feelings of impotence and despair, this campus. It’s designed to make us feel dwarfed and diminished and defeated and compromised.

It wants us to know that resistance is futile – utterly so. It wants us on our fucking knees.

The City as Lie

Trees stuffed into the earth. Already half grown. Already twenty – thirty feet tall. Trees crammed into the earth By some tree planting machine, no doubt. By some stuffing-in-the-earth machine.

Pavement, laid down. Paving stones, laid down. Perfectly, and in these patterns. Real stone, not fake stone – not cheap. They’ve made an effort.

Patterns of paving stones – not cheap. An expense like this. It’s high end. Luxury. Funded by who? For what?

Speculation: they must be here for a purpose – a ritual purpose. A magic purpose. The whole campus, here for some ritual purpose …

 

The campus city. The city campus.

They have confidence in their new city. Their fake city. Confidence in its future. They think this is going to last.

More: they have confidence that this is how things are going to be. That this is part of the new world – the unrolling of the new world.

Confidence that they’ve built the new normal. That this is what it’s going to look like. Total order. Total management. Confidence that they’re building the ultimate city. Even the last city. That they’ve perfected the city and all cities.

 

The perfect trap. The perfect prison. To contain us. To lock us down.

 

This is our re-education camp. They’re re-educating us through their stone. Through their towers. Through the patterns in the paving stones. Through the slogans written on their benches. Through their endless plaques.

They’re re-educating us through their gentle walkways. Through the building names. And the listening lampposts. Through their glass and steel. Through their surveillance equipment. Through their satellites, looking down.

 

The psychologists designed it all. The behavioural psychologists. At every turn, some behavioural psychology’s trick. Some subordination strategy. Some destroying of questioning and of the power to question.

This is what they’re doing to us. This is how they’re destroying us. How they’re making us capitulate. How they forcing us to think.

We should see it in the pavement – the patterned pavement. Is it supposed to hypnotise us? Is it supposed to placate us? We see it in the rivulets – in their channelled water. Is it supposed to tame us, too? Is it supposed to assist in our channelling?

We think we’re defeated – because of them. We think we’re crushed – and its their fault. We think they’ve won – but they haven’t won. We think we have no chance – but we do. We think we’re ruined – but we’re far from ruined.

 

The city as lie. These buildings as lie. These paving stones are a lie. The planting of these trees. The channelling of water.

The patterned paving stones – programming us. The trees shoved into the earth: programming us. The rivulets: programming us. Every part of this place, working on us, in its way.

 

There’s a false religion to glass and steel. There’s a fake religion to these paving stones.

How to stay immune? How to lift ourselves above this? With what knowledge? What gnosis? What relation to what hidden god?

 

The campus that says, God is dead. The campus where every prophet must die.

There’s magic here. There’s magic practised on the campus.

 

This world of death. Built of dead matter. Of stones and bitumen and asphalt and cement. Of cast iron and steel and glass and aluminium. Of lime and brick.

The new machine. The body of a new spiritual power. Rising in revolt. Against the true sky. Against the true earth.

This is the house of demons. When will the jackals howl in these palaces? When will wild dogs roam in these mansions? When will God say, ‘She shall be peopled no more forever, nor inhabited for all generations’?

 

When will the Day Star come? The fire of destruction?

Is there one pocket of righteousness here? Is there one reason this campus should be saved?

 

Idolatry. The dominance of powers, dominations, spiritual princes. Falsehood. Refusal. Illusion.

We must not be conformed to this.