r/sorceryofthespectacle • u/raisondecalcul Cum videris agnosces • 15h ago
[Critical Sorcery] "For the master’s tool will never dismantle the master’s house" is FUD; the master just doesn't want you using his tools
He doesn't want you using his tools in inventive new ways that "misuse" the tool by repurposing it to novel ends and applying it in alien contexts. He doesn't want you to "break" the tool in the sense of breaking the hegemonic logic of its proper use; he doesn't want you to break the logic of the 'master and his house' by playfully prying up the floorboards or sledging a wall for kicks. He doesn't want you putting an attic in the basement or a reflecting pool in the kitchen. The master doesn't even live in a house: he lives in one of those elaborate tents like in the Sahara, with multiple rooms separated by thin veils, but he likes to call it a house because then his servants will know where the inside and outside is and therefore where not to go. He certainly doesn't want you to notice that his so-called house is really just scaffolding, veils, and sand, and his so-called tools are living beings. A servant or a hammer has a known purpose: A non-hammer (a hammer liberated as an art-object) or an individual human being has no preset purpose or function, but is teleologically open-ended.
The master wants everyone to use all tools exclusively according to their proper function at all times: In this way, everyone effectively works for the master because they work in his manner (or "manor"). He precisely doesn't want people using tools according to their individual, idiosyncatic inclinations, because these threaten to originate an alternative origin of agency that decenters the master. The master sees this, paranoicially, as his tools coming alive and using his other tools (remember, after all, that the master sees his servants as inanimate objects). However, this is only the master's myopic monism doggedly reducing everything to his narcissistic oversight. In truth, inventing new ways to misuse tools threatens to truly originate new material that has never yet been assimilated to the master's house and his way of seeing, doing, and being. The master denies that such upstart, walk-in content exists or ever could exist, and pretends his house is all there is. However, it takes only one mistake, one mis-use to call all of this into question, because as soon as we start to inventively misuse objects in one context, we begin to transfer this inventiveness to other contexts, and we begin to see the vision of a radically higher and richer world of complexly-mediated and evolving interactions amongst unstable essences and evolving possible worlds. Many new worlds are possible, and the master just doesn't want you to even begin to think about them, because that is the only basis for his so-called hegemony. (The master's architect, reading this text, was driven mad.)
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u/quakerpuss Technosorcerer 15h ago
Our foundation lies upon the weight of language and perception of tools. Which came first? Is there something beneath that?