LATE HUMAN RESISTANCE THEORY

resistance to theory is resistance to extinction

Late human life is now resistance theory. In fact, human life is resistance to late human resistance theory. This at least double resistance is what flashes through the heart of seen things. Everything that flashes on the screen, however right and beautiful, is unnatural precisely to the extent it covers over this interplay of resistances.

First of all, the human is resistance. It puts a stop to pure inorganic matter, and makes a form. In the resulting human special-effects the human is a matter of form. Secondly, it does nothing but repeat its own resistance to the death that preceded it, so that human life is now resistance theory. Thirdly, when extinction replaces the experience of death, the human becomes nothing but resistance theory and resistance to late human resistance theory.

Theory that is real theory is like nothing in the world. Theory as such—pure theory, inevitably unread for decades—belongs to the few. Quantically, theory—which is not ‘theory’ or ‘critical theory’ or ‘black theory’—is pure in having an almost exaggeratedly aggressive relation to other domains. The first difficulty after academic capital has been seen through is the relation of name to thought (the impossibility of a transcendental reading). There are certain things that certain writers said and, in weak moments, it seems important to quote them. Contextless assessment of argument nodes and sensuous command lines is equally important.

A contextual manipulation of the contextless might look like something else (but probably isn’t). A useful example is to imagine a completed version of the Drake Equation (with a happy ending). We have such a rounded-out equation in front of us, regardless of how we see it belonging to the field of mathematics. It enacts a kind of proof of ongoing infinities. But where is it written? As soon as the positive result is inscribed, we are into the relation between the mathematical and the inscriptive, and as soon as we are into that, we are into the relation of inscription and ecocide. The meta-consideration in the interplay of context and contextlessness is an indescribable historical rhythm. The proof of total life affirms itself on a surface that threatens it at every point, and with no equal distribution.

All this indicates that theory, theory as such, is not like anything else at all, including particle enumeration, CERN, AGI, Web5, and so on. There is no thing such that that thing is the only thing that matters—except theory, which is the theory of the impossibly complete theory of late human resistance.

Let’s say we adopt a definition of theory as resistance to reading in general and say this is due to the fundamental nature of language itself. This in turn would be because language as pure realm contains extinction. This is why it is possible to not spend too much time looking at scientific data around extinction, because we can rely on what language says about itself as extinction. When people once talked about ‘theory’ it had nothing to do with what pure theory still is. If by pure theory we just have in mind the machine-text element in language which means that language already just is extinction, so it is that pure theory is already the theory of (resistance to) extinction. The rest of ‘theory’ is something completely different. This is why we can repeat that theory is not literature, philosophy, mathematics, or even theory, it is something else. Human theory is a very specific form of contextless resistance to late human resistance theory.