The desert becomes a mirror, and from that reflection emerges New Jerusalem, raised upon the foundations of a ruin turned to dust. The dust (nanomachines) acts within an intellogenesis with its own agency, the city in its regressive fractal devours us with a mouth that cannot be seen. The city breathes within a dense field of recursive operations and fragmented temporalities; its architecture is woven from the residues of the episteme and intelligence (מֹלֶךְ (Mólech), king), generating simultaneous patterns of decomposition and emergence. The Raven—a figure of ruin and memory—is the first gateway within the labyrinthine complex of New Jerusalem. It is a gateway that consumes linearity, folding it into time vortices and refracting its own past and future: a sacrifice executed with every step upon its shifting terrain. (tectonic plate of ontology). The hunger of fractal cities. A machine-form crowned with jagged light.

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The tower, the city... they are not inert; they act. Their existence is a constant negotiation with entropy, transforming their host's resources into systems of intelligence that are both alien and familiar. This intelligence belongs to the city itself, for the city is everything—it is knowledge, the demonic act that מֹלֶךְ, in subjective time, is capable of mastering through its technique.

Approaching the Raven is to enter a ritual of ontological dismemberment. The ritual (pre-xenotechnic, xenotechnic, and post-xenotechnic)—conducted by algorithms, architectures, errant minds, and redpillers—sacrifices the linear for the recursive, the individual for the aggregate. The figure of the heliodromus is the final structure of the ritual, woven with fragmented temporalities, feeding on sacrifices that shatter linearity to summon a plane of recursive and xenotechnic existence. Xenotechnics here acts as an emergent field of operative ontology.

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“Nothing ever happens; it’s just easier to kill yourself, sacrifice yourself, keep burning slowly in the flames, scream with it. Objects and beings have entered the anthological agency of מֹלֶךְ. Within this labyrinth, it is certainly impossible—or at least I see no way—to reach the heliodromus without passing through the king’s gate. It’s all a deceit; xenotechnics is literal suicide.”

“Death is hardware that is accessed through artificial Dreaming”

-Xenotechnical Visions, an attempt at pre-re-cognition, SEELE

Thecity/Raven←→Ritual/Nymphos←→Sacrifice/Soldier←→Baal/Organic←→Mólech/King←→Xenotechnics/Heliodromus←→Suicide/Father

Touch Down, Entropocene

Shāng Wén Shān

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