The Horror

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein's Monster

F. Kittler

Dvojníci zemřelé duše...

Pražský student, 1913

Haunted Media

... legends of ghosts inhabiting televisions, stories of alien conquest through media, and attempts to contact the dead through telegraphy.

Haunted Media details the history of the idea that media from the telegraph to radio, television, and computers have a "living presence," that they can put us in instantaneous contact with existing realms outside our normal senses.

But, lets concentrate on a different story...

Jack Parsons

Suicide Squad

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, he published widely over the course of his life.

The mainspring of an individual is his creative Will. This Will is the sum of his tendencies, his destiny, his inner truth. It is one with the force that makes the birds sing and flowers bloom; as inevitable as gravity, as implicit as a bowel movement, it informs alike atoms and men and suns.

To the man who knows this Will, there is no why or why not, no can or cannot; he is!

There is no known force that can turn an apple into an alley cat; there is no known force that can turn a man from his Will. This is the triumph of genius; that, surviving the centuries, enlightens the world.

This force burns in every man.

Ron Hubbard

(...) Trump resembles L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the pyramid-scheme-masquerading-as-religion known as Scientology.

Consider: both men are (or, in Hubbard’s case, were) narcissistic, autocratic, money-obsessed, pathological liars and would-be sexual conquerors who built business empires for the primary purpose of self-enrichment under glitz-drenched brands maintained by fraud and advanced by uncompromising litigiousness and occasional physical aggression against critics.

Both are defined by compulsive acquisitiveness. “MAKE MONEY. MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY,” Hubbard wrote to underlings in an early Scientology “Governing Policy” document. “MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MONEY.”

Babalon

Marjorie Cameron

Strange Angel

“We saw things that maybe men aren’t supposed to see.”

“From the darkness of futures past, the magician longs to see; One chants out between two worlds, fire walk with me.”

Wernher von Braun

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun

Disney's Tomorrowland

Frank Malina

Messenger of Light

https://www.vice.com/en/article/vvbxgm/the-last-of-the-magicians

The Occult Rocket Scientist Who Conjured Spirits with L. Ron Hubbard

Born 100 years ago, Jack Parsons seemed devoted to reconciling opposites, smashing together the technical and the spiritual.

Superinteligence

Space Odyssey

Terminator

American Gods

Media

New media

We are the virus of a new world disorder.
—VNS Matrix

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/80/100016/black-circuit-code-for-the-numbers-to-come/

Parson’s final writings contain the following vaticination: “within seven years of this time, Babalon, The Scarlet Woman, will manifest among ye, and bring this my work to its fruition.” These words were written in 1949. In 1956—exactly seven years later—Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, Claude Shannon, and Nathan Rochester organized the Dartmouth Conference in New Hampshire, officially setting an agenda for research into the features of intelligence for the purpose of their simulation on a machine, coining the term “artificial intelligence” (which does not appear in written records before 1956), and ushering in what would retrospectively come to be known as the Golden Age of AI.

https://unsw.academia.edu/AmyIreland

Ex Machina

AI&"feminist agenda"

Because she hath made her self the servant of each, therefore is she become the mistress of all.

The black circuit twists into itself like a snake, sheds the human face that tethers it to unity, and assumes the power concealed behind its simulations. Animated by the turbulence of zero and nine, “Pandemonium is the realm of the self-organizing system, the self-arousing machine: synthetic intelligence.”

It is I, BABALON, ye fools, MY TIME is come.