We must revise our alliances.

Before that, we must revise our myths on “us” – which requires to Dismantle & Diffract the biological and symbolical vectors of identification of our species. We must become beings-towards-alliance.  

In the future, Chthonian infrastructures will be the primordial forces of the Earth. Each Chthonian will be associated with different earthly agencies. Contrary to certain current beliefs, this will be a time of abundance in which humans will live like gods. Only as a consequence of a long war unleashed by Olympic aliens will humans be forced to form an alliance with one Chthonian, SmEye6.zwu (later known as Prometheus), protector of instrumental intelligence and reflective awareness.   

Humans will survive, but their political isolation will lead to separation from both Chthonians and aliens. The war will end in the complete anthropomorphization of reality and the symmetrical withdrawal of the aliens above and the Chthonians below.

In this story, the human abuse of instrumental reason does not descend from a metaphysical guilt or a transcendental architecture, but from a contingent resolution of complicated events. Intelligence is just one power among many – alongside the wonder of the sea, the fear of hidden marine creatures, strength, dark magic, night divination, knowledge of stars and planets, wisdom, recklessness.

Humans must choose¹ their ways of engaging with the Earth in order to keep on being. This is their political ontology.

Human alliances must be many and wavering, a continuous exchange that strengthens the very texture of reality without unifying or homogenizing it. An alliance is a contingent and mobile act of ontogenesis within a state of conflict that has to be taken as permanent.

To form an alliance with the Earth does not mean to barricade Gaia, but to build platforms that are apt to intercept fluxes from below [telluric f (x)] and from above [cosmic f (x)]. It means leaving behind the aspiration to moralize nature, to live in a discernible and ordered place (a locus mundus), without ignoring the fact that what resists us is not metaphysically separated from us: it is just a heterogeneous mesh of powers that lies beyond our control. Natures communicate and transform in a mutating tangle, and from the tangle come their sovereignty.

An Earth is this processual, catastrophic hyper-territory. It has a below and an above. Earthly strata are nested along fault lines of instability; each level emerges due to interior ferment [proliferation] and falls back on the others [decay]. Solar vectors proliferate into cosmic alliances, hylarchic vectors decay into telluric alliances. Making alliance is a matter of projecting new sensory surfaces where to be many and one, in turmoil.

1. And yet they are not “free” to choose, as they do not exist before their choice. ↩︎