Bartleby ‘does not refuse, but neither does he accept, he advances and then withdraws into this advance, barely exposing himself in a nimble retreat from speech’ (P. Jaworski). … [The formula, I prefer not to,] not only abolishes the term it refers to, and that it rejects, but also abolishes the other term it seemed to preserve, and that becomes impossible. In fact, it renders them indistinct: it hollows out an ever expanding zone of indiscernibility or indetermination between some nonpreferred activities and a preferable activity. All particularity, all reference is abolished. … [T]he formula „disconnects“ words and things, words and actions, but also speech acts and words-it severs language from all reference, in accordance with Bartleby‘s absolute vocation, to be a man without references, someone who appears suddenly and then disappears, without reference to himself or anything else.
G. Deleuze: Bartleby; or, the formula. In Essays critical and clinical, London 1998, 70/71/73-4
I need to become anonymous. In order to be present. The more anonymous I am, the more present I am. I need zones of indistinction to reach the Common. To no longer recognize myself in my name. To no longer hear in my name anything but the voice that calls it. To give substance to the how of beings, not what they are but how they are what they are. Their form-of-life. I need zones of opacity where the attributes, even criminal, even brilliant, no longer separate bodies.
Tiqqun: How is it to be done? tarnac9.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/how-is-it-to-be-done.pdf
* You do not talk about Anonymous.
* You do NOT talk about Anonymous. (Wikis are fine though. FEAR US.)
* Anonymous works as one, because none of us are as cruel as all of us.
* Anonymous is everyone.
* Anonymous does it for the lulz.
* Anonymous cannot be out-numbered, Anonymous out-numbers you.
* Anonymous is a hydra, constantly moving, constantly changing. Remove one head, and nine replace it.
* Anonymous reinforces its ranks exponentially at need.
* Anonymous has neither leaders nor anyone with any higher stature.
* Anonymous has no identity.
* Anonymous is Legion.
* Anonymous does not forgive.
* Anonymous does not forget.
13 of the 41 entries in the Sekrit Code of Anonymous, www.booki.cc/collaborativefutures/anonymous/
Vacant angels, creatures with-out a creator, mediums without a message, we walk between chasms. Our path, which might as well have come to an end yesterday, or years ago, has no reason in itself – and no necessity save its own contingency.
Tiqqun: Théorie du Bloom. Paris 2000
Niagara, Horseshoefall, July 11th 1920: Charles G. Stephens, The Demon Barber, equipped his wooden barrel with an anvil for ballast to weigh him down; unfortunately this would prove to be his demise as the heavy anvil broke through the bottom of the barrel taking. After the plunge, Chucks right arm was the only item left in the barrel, identified by a number of tattoos.
Alberich coating consisted of synthetic rubber sheets of about 4 mm in thickness. The material was Oppanol, which had sound absorbing properties, containing the U-boat’s own engine noise. Although no conclusive tests were performed, but it was claimed that the echo reflection of a U-boat with Alberich was reduced by about 15 percent.