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Black Circle (Pornographic-Time) is a manifesto by Ian Bruner, written for the occasion of Drowned By Locals’ five-year mark and published by Drowned By Public in a hand-numbered run of 100 copies.

Abstract:

In Pornographic-Time, Bruner describes how the vectoralist class has built an overlaid, parasitic system of power that collapses life into an accelerated, endlessly exposed present. It renders the subject a kind of Tantalus—stripped bare, without interiority, suspended in perpetual visibility. It issues a call for a new poetics capable of grasping the collapse of mediation and the saturation of power in vectoralist society.

“Both the targeted individual and the pornographic-Tantalus occupy the time-space of the horizonless interface, hived in algorithmic neurological pathways and pathologies, resulting in a bare life layered with compulsive and neurotic loops of behavior.”

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—Zoe Alameda

—Daniel Vasconcelos

—Laith Demashqieh
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