Affects & Dreams

A Manual for Becoming

A book written by niko mas about how Becoming happened, and how to understand where Becoming is going, as well as an introduction to some key concepts: Quantum Sociology and non-Musicology.

by Palais Sinclaire

Affects & Dreams: a manual for Becoming, the first book authored by niko mas, is a relatively quick dive into the waters of Becoming; a schizo-guide to our publishing practice (why, how, and for what cause do we publish/transmit). We tell the story of a radio show that bridged our project Crossdressing Diogenes with our latest project, Becoming. In telling the story of how we arrived here at all, we have a chance to index all of the fields and domains that Becoming has entered into so far, and begins to maniacally draw lines through many subjects.

In telling the story of how a radio show hosted by a record label lead to a publishing practice in such a way, we have a chance to begin explicating our take on the changing winds in those most dirty of social sciences and biology. For thousands of years, the West has held music as a matter of pure rationale, something purely of the intellect, but when the body is just an ear itself, and when one might say we are all, at once, being-in-music (or becoming-as-music), how we think about music has to change dramatically, how we speak music or speak about music has to change – music must be able to become something radically "unmusical", to cast off the Image-of-itself that it, like and as philosophy, has become; we must once again pursue a non-music fit for a non-sociology; or better, we must approach a quantum musical social ontology. This book is our first attempt to write towards a theory of a Musica Universalis of the social, the noise (harmony) of the social sphere(s).

Naturally, given the context of the project, we wanted to launch this book alongside a revamped version of our radio show, beginning today on Lumbung Radio at 9am (the live show is aimed at insomniacs who refuse to sleep so that capital may never dream), but the shows are immediately archived for everyone else to access.

The book is very short run and is produced at a time where your support is more appreciated than ever – we are really looking forward to your feedback.

TOPICS COVERED:

Images of Thought
Listening modes
Negativity and The Ear
Minimalism
Honest Electronics
Logocentrism
Metaphysics of Presence
Natural Physics
Lumbung Radio
Rave Culture, Tripping
Radio Control Rooms
Analogical Transmissions
Anamorphoses
Insomniac Dream-Machines

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