Dionysos Speed

As the digitization of existence - from the monitoring of thought to the tracking even of genitals - grows ever more pervasive, the central nervous system of the human body has been completely rewired. In the mapping of space-time, the species has moved into a state of total possession, of enslavement of its drives, imagination, and will. Through the virtualization of life, the society of the spectacle has reached a point of unparalleled monstrosity, with the simulacrum usurping reality itself. The species is divided between the digitalists, who see the technologization of the human as its natural evolutionary development, and those who stand against them.

At this epochal crux, a group of enigmatic anonymous figures emerge and begin to engage in globally coordinated ludic and radical capers, poetic acts of destruction and creation dismantling machines of control and surveillance. The society of the spectacle is short-circuited, scrambled, cut up through skirmishes, détournements, and other subversive acts of havoc wreaking, interruption, and sabotage. Can these throws of the dice overturn all means of control and enslavement? As time grows more and more constricted, the serendipities and transfigurations of human life are ever more swiftly eviscerated. At the same time, the anonymous clowns of revolt seek to resurrect the moments when great forces open up the boundless, creating combustion engines of play and generating new hemispheres of possibility.

Written as a sequence of epigrams, like a shower of Molotov cocktails, Dionysos Speed is a series of erupting geysers, comets flashing through space and giving rise to new forces. Like a Heraclitean fire machine, this book is designed to give birth once again to dissonant desires through the throw of the dice, a machine forged to release by way of ludic freedom the vital forces of the cosmos.