Sim Card Hølder

Projects of identification, tangled and dragged along in the trajectories of punishment and efficiency act to establish and reinforce dichotomies and contain power to the state. As a virus identity infects the self and the other, causing a fever of oppressive categorization, a delirium that erodes obscurity leaving in its space ready-made information. In this way identity replaces the self as the object and the self becomes the shadow.

The terrorist, the juvenile, a social security number can all be seen as ways in which identity exists as a form of oppression and control. In the invention of dactylography during the British colonial invasion of India, or in the creation of "whiteness", identity's direct relationship with legislation, policing, and suppression of particular peoples and bodies, is made evident.

Within the acids of the vector and it's capital, Identity is melted down into exchange value, a coerced transaction confused by the bliss of positive-saturated-gamespace-communication. Therefore, the vector and its superstructure establish a location specific gilded reality, a simulated environment. Tartarus decoyed as paradise. The corporate industry has come to understand "freedom" and identity as a self-replenishing harvest.

The SIM-card is a crystallization of abstraction within the vector and therefore, a technologie of counter-insurgent governing. This force is further entrenched through new relationships of allo-auto oppression. Biopower and neurological-power structures have merged forming the communications industries, a sector which has been fully incorporated within the military. Freedom as it seems has turned in against itself.

Freedom of communication in its frantic ecstasy, and numerous forms, create the conditions of cryptic imprisonment. The prisoner dictates their every move in an unhearable language, speaking without knowing. A growing catalog of the various phenomena of waking life, is subject to a process of continual dissection, identification, and transformation into data. Eternal-banks remain incarcerated within places hidden in asymmetries. The SIM-card is both a signifier of the tantilian-project-figure (the subscriber) and a cryptic-psycho system that when penetrated (infected) allows access to the raw-mineral of the capricious "self", a cartographic and surgical unveiling. The figure's interiority is laid open (everything must become externalized through this internalization) the unconscious/consciousness is made transparent and investable. Much like the seduction of statistical information of early periods, the seduction of data has the ability to blind the viewer into believing their sight is unflawable. Data's weaponization with its facade of enlightenment acts as an erasure of truth, and transforms the glitch into death.

As an act of detournement targeted groups will participate in a SIM-card exchange, a sacrificial defense tactic. Nearing a spiritual ritual the SIM-cards are placed into a bag and through a quick process of entropy misplaced, left unknowable in their indistinct appearance. In a particular but unimportant order each key is taken by the members of the circle. Someone will die. The predator targets the confused-abstraction of a faceless figure, a subscriber identification model, a "category"(insurgent) (military aged male). This program remains indifferent to exacts, but rather employs a blanket of sameness which becomes the differentiator and in this scope casualties, errors, and glitches are calculated as unavoidable but permissible, which renders the accidental as a non-term and is replaced with target.

Everyone then must assume the role of the insurgent, the enemy, the other, the target. In this way the SIM-card is a facet of singularity (the logical extension of authoritarian oppression) a merging of human and data. A psycho-flesh-information-chimera. The death-list no longer needs to include names or images but rather is denoted with strings of symbols, something like language but more primal, a system of codes much like that of animal communication. SIM-card keys are gathered (supplied through actions by the NSA) and arranged in an order of proximity to disposal. In an airconditioned room, a space located in the distantless earth, an actor of the vector, tracks the subscriber's identity module, a number marked for annihilation. Innocents and its criteria become irrelevant when passed through the gaze of the vector, as truth is replaced by data.

Communication and identity offer some, and particular safeties, and medicines, but any document of civilization is also one of barbarism. Rare earth minerals needed to create SIM-cards are mined and deconstructed within a cybernetic system of decentralized enslavement. Forced labor of specified regions and peoples, tatilian-subjects mining at gunpoint, or huddled over defromative chemical smoke in a wasteland of designed obsolescence. What is left? Lost youth, the unmediated pornography of an individual's essence. Destruction of the body, of familial relations, of the environment, craters that cannot be filled, synthetic materials that last 100,000 years, the suicide net, the poisoned and perverted soul of the drone pilot, the SIM-card holder.