Mania from the periphery of style

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If you feel like olive oil larping as dip sauce for stale bread. 

I come to you with good news

we are about to enter a little mood slowly snowballing into a big mood.

Im really passionate and confused about a lot of things my plan is to slowly introduce them to this news letter podcast format. That I think is a nice combination between, images and sound, text and comfort.

When ever I make a graph I have the weird tendency to make time on the y axis go down. 

30 is the new 60, 60 is the new 90, 90 is the new dead. Im recently loving the all business approach.

Full of shit, manic. 

A mood that is unsubscribed from the Netflix of pain. It is rather Subscribed to a premium of 360-video Vr theatre at all times. Let's call it Insanity as a business model. 

Oh ye If there are any terms you might want to explore further, I have hyperlinks in the transcription on my substack. So you know what I’m talking about. I come before you with some humble ideas about:  Life liberty and the pursuit of mania. in the second part I will  explore some ideas about a style: gore-tex rococo, a dark cozy trend, maybe an extrapolation of Cottagecore. I suspect this style will begin Feeding into the Micro mainstream, So this news letter is some sort of unauthorised trend report if you will, like a biography that the subject disagrees with. 

The style of the news letter is Stemming from Craft-core writing. Craft-core has been trending in fashion for well over a year now. A DIY look where everything is permitted as long as it is badly made. Unfinished seams, patch work. Abhorrent material choices, we can’t get enough of it. Overlocked hems. Lots of loose treads with raw edge lettuce hems, crooked zippers. 

Zero expertise creates a sense of style for this clown-esk era. I think Craft-core clothing is a good interlude to a state of becoming perma-artisanal. What craft core writing is, I will subject to a natural process over time. I suspect it will be Very ambiguous complicated and somewhat silly

Who cares about spelling if no one reads anyway. 

All I can say is that, I am speaking to you from a room with one RGB LED in every corner and no furniture. Purple,  red,  green, and yellow light.  These are colours I like and they are shining bright at the moment.

In this world of eternal optimisation, It is good to be pre-occupied with the next step. Yet the next step might be backwards, so we will see how this goes.

Hey, lets get Back on task  We are not looking for a relatively mild mental illness, But full-blown mania

There is no reason not to be manic anymore, reality doesn’t exist outside cultural analysis, let’s see who can out petty who.

Domestic cozy as introduced on the ribbon farm and widely experienced in 2019, staying at home, clubbing is for old people, all that jazz, let’s not go out, have a quiet life. This is no match for artisanal hypomania. This is not millennial individualism- audience inquiry, where-oh-where are my fans?

This is frontline, fire and forget, Call Of Duty Xbox Live chatroom, yo mama, drone execution neurosis. 

Tail end maximalism. 

When I recently saw the release of Cyberpunk 2077 the aesthetics filled me with dread. Until I heard about the infinite number of glitches and bugs plaguing the game. Weather, day, night, and time of day change instantly when you bump into another car while driving. People do weightlifting with dumbbells while simultaneously holding a gun. It leads me to say That the bugs in cyberpunk are the only true artistic aspects of the game.  The cyberpunk bugs serve  as a blip in a model making me Think mania is the little mood that is coming

everyone completely manic all the time. But not in a millennial way, looking for audiences in every space, trying to get rewards, that are going to increase through, what millennial individualism thinks pays off, no. They have nothing in the bank of credibility anymore. We are looking at face value pure and unfiltered, mania

“Moooooooooooooom? “Can we have mania from the stock market?”

“No, we have mania at home.”

The good thing about mania is that it makes non-events interesting.

After a full year, running the engines at idle power, I am wondering if this stationary engine  is actually a tire burning, rubber melting smoking hot wheel-spin before The last big jerk off.

Calling the new generation, generation Z is not a very optimistic thing to do. 

BTW the new new generation is called Gen Alpha, I suspect the chief reason to call them that, is some sort of post-apocalypse anthropocene art-show fantasy thinking.

In a way the world is filled with non events, the brown bits of engagement, on the bottom of the pan have been deglazed with natural wine, engagement has been reduced spectatorship at all times. 

The caramelised fond sticking to the pan toning sequences of events have sublimated into a troubled mix were one might claim they can still taste the sulphite in the natural wine, but everyone else knows the natural whine cult is claiming deterministic agency over things that are distributed at random, either that or they are allergic. 

In this cloudy broth, you should take stock.

Reference yourself. All other references are forbidden now. Quoting oneself is a fairly wise alternative to sublimating other peoples words, it's a creepy manifestation that serves the clown-esk era, if the simulation fucks with you, plays with you, bugs you, presents you with glitches, it's time to get the saxophone out. Why scream into the void if you can perform a solo.

Ask a manic what keeps them awake at night and they will say:

Nothing! I keep other people awake at night. 

Manic, is winning at chess in an authoritarian way, silent. Not explaining what you did, when the opponent blundered their queen, when and why you castled. Manic, is not this post modern shared learning experience-winning, 

Winning and then humiliating the opponent even further by explaining how and why they have lost, and what you could have done better.

I prefer: chad winning. Queen to E4, mate!. You do the dishes! thanks for cooking!

Strong emotions. 

Gut feelings are never wrong.  

Of course fucking of course  

I think that's why a lot of people needed a  change of pace including me. Movies don't do anything anymore. You can't really watch them, it's too boring.

I loudly exhale three times subsiding anxiety that comes back as soon as the breathing exercise seizes. Auto-refresh! stalk! Tweet! Regret! Retweet again, they are  Part of the ambience of culture of my whole life. Before going on social media

Put the pan on high heat for 10 minutes, before adding the bone chilled meat. The loss of heat in the pan is the perfect temperature. Evaporate the water. Allow the flavours to mature. Exhale again and again.

If you are like me deeply deeply done with dinners, you will have to act. If escapism becomes powerless, you have to go behind enemy lines in the living room. Sometimes you should hide behind the couch even when nobody is watching. Think about ordering food. Overcome great adversity by cooking yourself.

Leave the plate out on the dinner table. Your desk, your home made armchair, constructed out of cloths of dubious origin and materials with untraceable contexts or wherever the fuck you eat, as long as its not behind the laptop. 

Let the food go cold

Circle the food for hours 

Stare at it

Growl at it 

Laugh at it. 

Eat half throw, other half in the bin.

Stay hungry.

I call this predator mania 

Next day. Take the food out of the bin

Offer it to your roommate. 

Ego Dumpster diving is hyperlocal punk adjacent.

Taking drugs is about anticipation. It is the taking that is fun, not so much the being high. It is an S curve In a way. Although seeing talking tofu in the rotting leftovers punctuated by contracted proteins on the couch on shrooms, Is better to see your self, than In some crap cinema.

The symptoms of mania include elevated mood (either euphoric or irritable), flight of ideas and pressure of speech, increased energy, decreased need and desire for sleep, and hyperactivity. 

They are most plainly evident in fully developed hypomanic states. However, in full-blown mania, they undergo progressively severe exacerbations and become more and more obscured by other signs and symptoms, such as delusions and fragmentation of behavior.

I now strongly believe that more automation equals more mania, this is a simple energy management problem. Imagine being all fired up behind the wheel of your car, stuck in a traffic jam.You're angry, but there are tasks to complete, switch lanes. Start stop start stop. Now imagine that same situation in an autonomous vehicle yet bearing the privacy that no train has. What are you going to do?

tweet, of course 

of course 

fucking of course. 

Demonstrations are useful no matter how marginal because people do not actually remember silence. They remember events, more silence, more energy left over from tasks that are now automated simply must mean more tail spin into self created dramatic situations, all this time and nothing to do gives you plenty of room to organise your petty thoughts. And if one is to stay insane, It is absolutely crucial to create micro events during the day. 

Create a poorly written problem. Obsess over it without telling anyone. Make a terrible decision.

Let developments follow in rapid succession, divert attention to something else, never look back  until you are laying awake trying to sleep 6 years later on a Tuesday at 2 am before a job interview. 

Make a painting on a towel using lots of cadmium red., let it partly dry, go in the shower, use no soap. Especially no shampoo, never use shampoo.

Shampoo is really a PysOp to me, As soon as I saw you could buy, shampoo for damaged hair, I thought this: well, who do you think damaged the hair?

Put shower as hot as possible. Get out of the shower, take the towel it the almost dry to the touch wet paint on it. Proceed to make the most abstract ass body paint ever using the towel.Take lots of obligatory mirror selfies.

Tag Renzo piano on twitter. 

This manic epoch will be different from the LARP epoch. In the Larp epoch, the Larp should come to you, you should be stuck in the larp, if you do the larp its just a larp that’s not what larping means, it is about a loss of control. 

Now I think its time not to do, but to create larps for oneself and the other. Create a live multimedia novel were-in things have taste, Were things matter, where you can map out identification points. 

Goretex rococo, mania from the periphery of style. 

I love that people are complaining that there is only nostalgia, in trends  and are constantly talking about the ever shorter trend cycle, 

but then simultaneously debate the exact time frame of the last good year, without having an eye for the new trends. 

Was it 2015?

13?

11 maybe.

Perhaps 

2015: Mark fisher and John Galliano walk into a bar

John says: This is insane and solves nothing 

Mark replies. Yes lets go home.  

Cottagecore? Piss poor ruffles, I do not want a loose fitting dress or baggie pants, no what I want is volume. As Tight as possible, snug fit, as wide a possible.

I am opting for clothes designed in non-euclidean hyperbolic space. 

Hyperbolic rococo. 

Vector space, i’ve got bad news for you buddy, you are out, pack your stuff and go.  No more vectorised illustrator shape-builder y2-fucking-k flowers. My critique of pure reason? It sucks

Hyperbolic space is a homogeneous space that has a constant negative curvature, what the hell does that mean?

Hyperbolic space is pretty ill. But it is hard to visualise, and the math doesn’t give us anything, too abstract.

A hyperbolic space is a curved space, meaning that If you imagine a grid with coordinates, it is the grid itself that is curved, not any objects that might be possibly in it.

Imagine if in photoshop you are drawing with pixels, but pixels would not be blocks in a grid but rather curved, you can still draw on the grid, it just means that straight lines have  a curve to them. 

Let's get into the easiest way to understand hyperbolic space. Let's start off with euclidean and spherical spaces. 

Think off a regular flat lay in 2D euclidean plane that goes on in every direction and has no curvature. Endless grid. We ourself are in regular ass euclidean space. But if we add some positive curvature we get a spherical shell. This is not a solid ball. There's no inside or outside just an infinitely thin two-dimensional shelf. It looks a bit like a globe. 

 So You might think this is Is really similar to us living on the surface of Earth, but there's actually a big difference, and it has to do with light and lines. Think about light bending around the curved space of a black hole, light always travels in the shortest path in a straight line. It's just that the space itself is curved. So if the Earth actually had a spherical space-time, then looking out at the Horizon the light you see what actually travel all the way around the Earth in an arc. In fact, there wouldn't be a horizon anymore. Things would be a lot weirder, yes even weirder than they already are.

The opposite is true for hyperbolic geometry its a negative space, more of a cone shape, there are no parallel lines and every line diverges from one another, the corners stretch to infinity endlessly removed. 

It's really important to stretch corners to infinity. 

Hyperbolic geometry in fashion is nothing new. Crocheting is an excellent technique for creating  2d hyperbolic planes, and is a nice extrapolation of the Cottagecore trend, alternatively you can  stitch a hyperbolic blanket. 

How to crotched a hyperbolic plane. 

So, how big do you want the model to be?"

"Infinitely big, but, like, also infinitely small depending on how you look at it.”

Let’s start modelling behaviour, attitudes, moods, mania and designs in Artisanal space. in artisanal space the coordinates are gestural, erratic, decimals hypercut with a frivolous incredulity. The grid is an endless spagetthification in all directions, no parallel lines, only abstract performative lines. good luck navigating this mania, google maps won’t help you this time. Here in artisanal space only bitcoin amoebas roam the seas. All cases are Edge case when every thing is experimental. Put the Art back in artisanal.

Goretex Rococo to me is a dichotomy that I describe as Gestural vs rendered, but both are viewed through a Hyperbolic prism, they mix in the middle -without ever touching- in the realms of Opulent ornamentation, Efficacious execution, and maniacal material choices  and then they diverge endlessly. 

Sushi. shopping. skiing, these are not goretex rococo 

saffron, sacrifice and screaming, come much closer to me. 

I feel disgruntled, at the lack of an equivalent to stilettos for men.

Chains of banalities can be decoupled and intervened upon. Plead-plead-plead-zipper-rip. Technique is nothing but failed style and style is in a way unimportant. A great sense of style comes with no shame, Technique is a chain of banalities, without intervention. A linear pattern. The dot falls exactly on the line, the middle of the line.

Until some asshole invents Neo-normcore we can surf the wave of wearing Decathlon without pondering if Quechua is the epitome of cool or at the bottom of a pit of despair. 

Let's think about it. Together if you will. 

an omnipotent figure could potentially pull off the worst look of all time, And why would’t they. This goes back to the surgeon example of equal skill, Two surgeons arrive at a hospital. One looks like a butcher. The other looks as neat one possibly can.Which one do you hire, obviously the butcher who had to overcome greater adversity. 

The omnipotent figure would probably wear fleece, but not this tacky tech polar fleece. No. Run of the mill 2 euro per meter 1996-in-a-bad-way bright red with an  orange hue fleece.  Play-fullness is not neat. Who cares that your tech bro jacket weighs 14 miligrams if you don’t have a scale to measure it. 

I propose you bring some life data feed with you at all times. 

Project it on the wall 

Hey Jim “how are you”

Boom (use the lips here) quantum graph projection! 

A squiggly line with snazzy axis!

Diagonal axis

Fuck it, no grids 

Axis move too.  

Every line a graph.

The s curve is coming for you 

The cutting edge has blunted somewhat, simultaneously I think the chamfer is the lowest amount of bits to give something definition, when did tomatoes become so acidic?

I sweep the wet bathroom floor with my towel after shower and use it for two more days Is this? Anti-fragile?

Let’s explore some the key points of Goretex rococo. 

Arrogant yet affordable is what i’m trying to describe perhaps.  Digital design but not a demo reel for Autocad. Silhouettes are tight but sculptural, following and leaving the body as so desired. A deep believe that only weirdos are tolerant.

If we take premium mediocre and take the opposite, 

So: premium mediocre, cross multiply and solve for x.

insignificant is to premium, what excellence is to mediocre. 

But goretex rococo is not interested in  insignificant excellence, 

It is interested in excellent excellence. 

The partial abandonment of symmetry, everything being composed of graceful lines and curves, Like goretex itself (goretex was invented by mistake) abandonment of symmetry leads to happy accidents, born partly of frustration. Getting annoyed enough to pass a threshold of doing something is always good. Disagreement is intrinsically meaningful.If we look at gore tex, this dude was just heating some fibres to get their asses long n skinny. 

He was failing though. 

“Instead of slowly stretching the heated material, he applied a sudden, accelerating yank. The solid PTFE unexpectedly stretched about 800%” 

800 Percent see, hyperbolic tendencies are embedded in the invention of goretex itself.”  forming a microporous structure that was about 70% air.

The very wide use of flowers in ornamentation, an example being festoons made of flowers 

Im thinking rough cut vacuum formed epaulets, as some sort of polymer creme brûlée. Hard and distinct on the outside, soft and sweet on the  inside.

I think clothing with a beautiful lining will make a comeback. Maybe epaulets should be connected with some sort of magnetic rope. Loose on the shoulders, forming a backpack.

For a longtime I have thought about sewing a shirt with a bigger collar every month. Linear growth, make the collar 10 percent bigger every month, never stop, at least not till I reach 800 percent.

But now I’m thinking that could be a hyperbolic function as well.  In Italy goes, the bigger the collar the bigger the dick. 

Just think about the point of a hyperbolic collar. 

Removing friction has been the playbook of silicon valley, for the last couple of years. They are trying to have the least amount of clicks to perform an action. They tried adding tipping to Uber. Add tipping to a Uber ride It adds a step, and we are trying to have no steps. Goretex rococo is the opposite. There are no parallel lines in hyperbolic space, lines will always diverge. Infinite steps. 

Maximum friction for a short period, then move away again. 

In a a technocratic system which starts from the premise that we are all selfish, that everyone is a utility maximising individual, and we're all constantly on the lookout for a better deal, and that deal is always in material terms. 

Everybody always wants more. There's nothing else to human nature. therefore setting up people against each other. It is basically Rank and yank, were you shower your top performers with everything you  can find in terms of bonuses and Privileges, and you unceremoniously humiliatingly fire the lowest few percent. That's whole system that is so deeply corrosive.

It is important to perform deranged-shallow work, make sure you regularly perform a Tour de force of suboptimization.

If there is no collective bargaining power and people, you can still inflate events themselves.  

I basically fully agree with what Bach has to say about this. 

I think Art is first and foremost a dysfunction, where people might see art as a tool, instrumental in some sort of way, a tool for lets say signalling status or for education, hell maybe even entertainment purposes or ornamentation. 

Think its better  to see art as something to capture conscious States

A plus B and create some sort of synthesis. observation for the sake of observation. Because the conscious state is the important thing that needs to be conserved.

It's service. It's a service to something that is more important than all the other things that you could be doing at the same time. Not looking for rewards that are going to increase through what you have learned. But rather, It's trying to capture. A certain structure for its own sake, people who are not doing that. Are sharks looking for liberal growth, and incompatible with dysfunctional thinking. Submit to ideas that are crazy enough not to be untrue. You are unimportant as a subject.

I love It when a friends of mine point to something and say, this is good art

Of that’s a piece, 

That’s why it's good to be manic. Splines of mania have no marginal cost, it can be felt at again and again, fresher, free of all boredom and at a lower unit price than non-events , the emotion can short every possible non event to a greater squeeze. 

suboptimization is important, fine dining with esoteric dietary choices.

So far this consultancy from a hyperbolic periphery

It what Is it. 

This newsletter was thinkfluenced by friends, full moon sleepless nights, 

And mozzarella saffron fattoush salad,

metallic honey tea with grassy or hay-like notes.  

Thanks for listening. 

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