In the late 1970s, reports circulated between universities that there was code which would crash the IBM mainframes it was executed on. While a program typically runs through each of its lines in sequence until completion, this particular set of instructions would endlessly replicate itself, causing an exponential growth of computational processes that would eventually […] The post Anarchy and Interoperability appeared first on The Frozen Sea Inside.| The Frozen Sea Inside
Toppling power today involves two complementary forms. The first multiplies chances to revolt, inviting ever more people into a struggle waged across ever more numerous places. The second multiplies chances to desert, inviting ever more of those aligned with power to abandon it. Both of these forms are ultimately concerned with avoiding symmetrical conflicts with […] The post Against Symmetry in Conflict appeared first on The Frozen Sea Inside.| The Frozen Sea Inside
Never before has so much knowledge been produced about life, and never before has so much knowledge been utilized to destroy it. Spy operations, satellite and drone surveillance, and online monitoring all visualize a global theater of war in unprecedented detail, serving to catalogue populations, map relations, and isolate targets. All of this knowledge about […] The post To Know and Destroy Life appeared first on The Frozen Sea Inside.| The Frozen Sea Inside
Two complementary forms of death now fold over one another in our world. The first form of death is one which we’re all ceaselessly confronted with, a form of death which is expressed in the immense numbers of lives which are lost as a consequence of the capitalist economy, of the machines of war, of […] The post Minor Details appeared first on The Frozen Sea Inside.| The Frozen Sea Inside
There’s a section in Sartre’s Notebook for an Ethics where, in a discussion of the slave’s violent revolt against their master, he notes that “Since slavery is the given order, freedom will be disorder, anarchy, terrorism.”1 This is generalized in later pages, and can be distilled into the following formulation: for every order, freedom is disorder.| The Frozen Sea Inside
The Paris Commune and ICE vehicles being pelted by chunks of concrete. The Egyptian Revolution and rows of self-driving cars engulfed in flames. The Spanish Civil War and crowds blocking a freeway blanketed with thick clouds of tear gas.| The Frozen Sea Inside