🐸 Xenobots, 🤖Xenosystems & Hyperstitional "Dust Sorcery"🌬️ ~ [Urban Odyssey #0002; Nov. 10th, 2026]

In this week’s show, we explore the [disturbing] crossover between “cutting-edge synthetic biology” and the esoteric/sci-fi philosophy of the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit). Xenobots (created by Michael Levin) are “living, self-healing, programmable organisms derived from frog stem cells” which begs the question, how closely related are they to Xenology and Nick Land's (Lovecraftian) concept of "Xenosystems" and accelerationism (influenced by Curtis Yarvin)?

“alienation, architecture, feminism, figurality, hospitality, inhumanism, migration, philosophy of technology, planetarity, posthumanism, procedurality, science and technology studies, science fiction, xeno, xenos, xenia” (Vít Bohal, 2025, ISBN: 9788090958401)

We unpack the bizarre origins of "Dust Sorcery," tracing it from ancient Mesopotamian demonology (Pazuzu) to modern-day smart dust, mesh networks, and NASA's geoengineering projects. We also discuss plasmoid anomalies, UAP encounters in the atmosphere, and how 6G subdermal networks and AI genetic algorithms are shaping a new reality. Finally, we break down "Templexity," prediction markets, and how the future might just be seeding itself into the present through retrocausality.

Substack Post Link: https://theofficialurban.substack.com/p/xenobots

Additional Links & CCRU Writings Direct Links:

1. Numogram + SmartMesh: https://odyssey-docs.vercel.app/ccru/numogram.html

2. Copycat Project https://odyssey-docs.vercel.app/technical/copycat-project.html

3. Fractal Time in Recursive Cosmos: https://odyssey-docs.vercel.app/technical/fractal-time.html

4. CCRU Writings (1997-2003) https://odyssey-docs.vercel.app/ccru/ccru.html

   1. Direct Link to Book: https://kyl.neocities.org/books/[POE%20CCR]%20ccru%20writings,%201997-2003.pdf

5. Digital Hyperstition: https://odyssey-docs.vercel.app/ccru/ccru-digital-hyperstition.html

   1. Abstract Culture 2024 Direct Link: https://monoskop.org/images/b/b0/CCRU_Abstract_Culture_2024.pdf

   2. Hyperstition Forum Posts on “Dust Sorcery”

      1. https://web.archive.org/web/20040903164603/http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003889.html

      2. Dust: https://web.archive.org/web/20050915000151/http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003354.html

      3. Relic: https://web.archive.org/web/20050424014042/http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003408.html

      4. THE MYTH OF ANZU https://web.archive.org/web/20050518074549/http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/ninurta/mythanzu.htm

      5. Introduction to Inorganic Demonology: Reza Negarestani and The Exorcist

6. Cthelllectronics: https://odyssey-docs.vercel.app/ccru/cthelll.html

7. Hypertext: https://odyssey-docs.vercel.app/ccru/hypertext.html

8. Pneuminous Accretions (Urban’s Notes)

   1. Direct Link: https://centreforexperimentalontology.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/pneuminousaccretions-1.pdf

9. Xenosystems Fragments (Urban’s Notes)

   1. Direct Link: https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/XENOSYSTEMS_FRAGMENTS-1.pdf

   2. Xeno-glossary: https://diffractionscollective.com/2024/04/19/xenology-a-xenoglossary/

10. Visions of Futures Past (Urban’s Notes)

    1. Direct Link: https://monoskop.org/images/b/bb/Land_Nick_Livingston_Suzanne_Greenspan_Anna_Visions_of_Futures_Past_2024_spreads.pdf

11. Capitalism’s Transcendent Time Machine (Urban’s Notes)

    1. Direct Link: https://monoskop.org/images/e/e1/Greenspan_Anna_Capitalisms_Transcendental_Time_Machine_2023.pdf

12. Nick Land (Urban’s Notes)

    1. Archive Collection: https://archive.org/details/nick_land_writings/LAND%2C%20Nick%20%26%20OVERY%2C%20Stephen%20-%20The%20genealogy%20of%20Nick%20Land%27s%20anti-anthropocentric%20philosophy%3B%20a%20psychoanalytic%20conception%20of%20machinic%20desire%20%28Thesis%29/

    2. Acceleration Collection: https://archive.org/details/cyclonopedia-negarestani-reza/A_Thousand_Plateaus_and_Philosophy-Bell_Jeffrey_A.Deleuze_GillesGuattari/