‘The marshals of the four coalitions chose our sky for their decisive battle because the sky over our village was the best in the world: calm and cloudless. The sun flowed through our sky like a wide, peaceful river. I remember them well, the sun and the sky. The marshals found this place ideal for the final battle. It’s not surprising.’

An excerpt from ‘Without Sky’ by Natan Dubovitsky

Natan Dubovitsky is the pen name of Vladislov Surkov. Surkov is the architect of Vladimir Putin’s ‘Non Linear War’, a steady-state information attack on western democracies. He is a politician. He’s also studied art for three years.

The end game of ‘Non Linear War’ isn’t collusion with any particular faction, though it leans heavily towards recalcitrant patriarchies. Disruption and indiscriminant paranoia are main objectives. The scrambling esthetic of ‘non linear war’ is a contradistinction to late modernism’s reductive ‘clarity’. But both aspire towards a hierarchical presumption of efficient platforms of universal control. Both are perversely sexy, in their way. Both crush difference.

Confusion, dislocation and mechanisms of perceptual control fuse with pop esthetics. Recursive graphic motifs seduce with their seeming inevitability. They confirm themselves with self-reflexive repetition.

… maybe one might disrupt these efficiencies with the idiosyncratic intervention of one’s idiosyncratic fetish as subjective misuse?? Slow fast things, encumber the quick with the awkward, the clear with the confused?

Perhaps in the fetishizing the mechanism one presents abstractions with enough clarity to recognize the design of fear and loathing.

Same Shit Different Day. Don’t Worry Be Happy.