Brian Ang, Writing the World-System

Occupy everything, including Humanities
In the future, the cities are burning.
This is what the people want.
Will Help Determine Why It Didn’t Work As Intended
blatantly / pro-Communist / rhetoric.
Communist Cheese was post-Dr. Strangelove pre-something id shaped smudge
The historical subject of beauty
TEXTUALITY AND ANNIHILATION

Writing the world-system: an openness to the world-system’s senses and particulars, as in those articulated by practices I’ve edited in ARMED CELL and this post-crisis poetics series, assembled into dynamic consistencies.

And all lived.
The friend / is difficult to localize.
what signs and survey lines dehumanize
FROM PRE-SYMBOLIC TO TOTALITY
The form of the workers’ council gone.
Let’s quote the quotes, which are killing us
Oppositional Urban Cartography
BADVERTISEMENTS

Senses and particulars, present and historicizing, emerge from the world-system’s transformations, its events and struggles.

12:18 a.m. Assault.
preliminary research / evinces pacific / trash vortex
As I waded up to the first boss
INSURRECTION → SURGERY
Post big bailout / Post G20 / Post-market tin-pot grab-and-go cronies
The stakes continue to be the constitution of the world.
Continuity is made, not found.
Wrenched on by class war

Writing constitutes flows: referential, sonic, semantic.

relation in system / of relations seems / to relate
Love embraces me like terrorism
Riot Helmets, Fingerprint Kits, Loud Speakers, Salt Fog Chambers, Plastic Forks and Cups, Flood Lights.
DEMOCRACY IS NOT FOR THE PEOPLE
Nomadism can be an exciting world.
if not these words then others

Connect flows between different contexts that senses and particulars are part of, extending attention in all directions.

the absence of // Complete destruction
“Occupy everything,” preserved in its emergence,
WE’RE SO SOCIAL NOW
Non-Los Angeles
It’s parallel lines meeting at infinity.
Look at all this art. / We are the enemy.

Dynamic consistency is the connection of heterogeneous senses and particulars into a feedback network extending attention through all contexts that senses and particulars are part of.

The wrongness of words is a wrongness of worlds.
Democracy is impossible, and it must be preserved.
geologic time / in collision / chemical weathering
‘angry spirit’ in search of method (tract in action)
The key, syntheses, vagabond units.
gaping neck-based data-sphincter,
Only the survivors of the attack are present to witness the atrocity first hand.

Write a network for extending a thousand investigations traversing dimensions of the world-system.

Why do things end / because teleology.
medicate the withdrawal of / history
President of the United States Disney Haliburton;
Communism represented is communism tamed.
CATASTROPHE CROWN
Odd things appear: retained foreign objects.

Ramify investigations oriented with the actuality of present struggles against capitalism.

“everywhere everything happens all at once.”
The law is a mouth. / Glossolalia.
Is the position that radical social change is impossible a radical position?
existence itself is equal
make a nation for me
does form make demands?

Map a complex of contexts and appropriate and assemble knowledge for where and how to struggle.

[ —— ] a civilian detainee,
you were the person I was trying to place.
Cipher fluoresces red.
Access denial (system blocking)
won’t make sense right now
the views that survive the catastrophe,

Construct common contexts to connect with different practices and communize different kinds of knowledge.

desire for a poetics adequate to the present,
Inside of a decade like that.
Empire defend itself. Mold material form.
until my tits rip off in the dream
SERIAL POEM AGAINST THE STATE
the fallen revolutionaries are immortal

Multiply investigations diagramming dimensions of the world-system for the construction of antisystemic subjectivity.

in the era of zero, health fades like ego.
enamel and melee // void and degree
a room / Full of only white poets,
can I be vulnerable?
information wants to be communist
AUTOMATIC INSURRECTION
how does the nation benefit
ARMED ASSEMBLAGE CELL CONSTRUCTION
i am not yet ready to be an “i”

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Stanzas quote from every contributor in ARMED CELL’s first eleven issues and was published as “ARMED ASSEMBLAGE CELL CONSTRUCTION” in ARMED CELL 11.