Johannes Büttner

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Johannes Christian Achim *1985 Frankfurt am Main

hello(at)johannes-buettner.com

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Essentially everything is solar.

Sunlight hits the earth animating the elements: water evaporates, vapor rising up, raining back tot he ground, flowing into the oceans; warm air displaces cold air, wind blows;

photosynthesis processes solar energy into biomass which is eaten by animals which are hunted by humans, slaughtered or yoked to a plough; plant or animal biomass, wind mill,

water mill, sail, and yoke; that’s how it’s been for thousands of years.

But then carbon arrived on the scene. Carbon, a product of inhuman forces and timescales. Relentless geological force over millions of years compressing biomass to a high-density

battery of solar energy. Until man could persuade carbon to form an alliance which elevated him to planetary power. First coal, then oil.

Coal begat urbanisation, industrialisation, railways, and solidarity. No Hegelian world spirit formed the proletariat, it was coal itself, stubbornly clinging to the coalbed, giving an

example of overground resistance which empowered the proletarian who alone knew how to persuade coal to be mined. Shoulder to shoulder the proletarians went down the pit,

shoulder to shoulder they shovelled the coal onto the barges, onto the trains, shoulder to shoulder they striked again and again from the nineteenth until late deep into the

twentieth century. Their strikes blocked the energetic metabolism of industrial society, strikes oft he coal workers, strikes oft he railway workers, industrial workers, general

strike, until everyone had health insurance and pensions and annual holidays and a television set.

Thirty years ago the coal worker striked a last time, because he did not know any better. He lost, both his job and his alliance with coal. His children are now baristas, web designers,

and call center agents, they work and party in the abandoned industrial plants in which the machinic rhythm structuring their parent’s lives can still be heard as a faint echo; they’re

high both on expensive drugs and cheap oil.

Oil is a class traitor. It doesn’t empower the worker, but the manager and the general. Once spudded, the oil eagerly bubbles to the surface, flowing through the metastases of a global

network of pipelines and tankers guarded by drones and guns. The oil worker no longer goes down a pit where he could conspire shielded from the eyes of the manager. The oil

worker stays on the surface, constantly surveilled. Oil is flexible, nimble, it does not need railways, it can circumvent strikes, it organises a geography in which it flows around

resistances, and if its flow is interrupted after all an aircraft carrier won’t be far.

But this, too, is passing.
Some planners in the German military bureaucracy are already freaking out:

„ Peak oil is inevitable. There is a serious risk that sustained scarcity of essential commodities will initiate a time of global transformations accompanied by frictions to be

taken extremely seriously from a security policy perspective. The desintegration of whole complex economic systems including their interdependent infrastructures has direct,

severe consequences on many areas of life, specifically in developed countries “

The federal office for civil protection reminds us:

„Do you know how dependent you are on electricity, gas, oil and district heating? What do you do when all of this fails? The telephone is dead, the heater won’t work, there is no hot

water, computer and coffee machine stay off, there is no light. You’ll really quickly how depnendent you are on electrical energy. You can replace heating with warm clothes for a

short while. If you have a fireplace in your house, keep a supply of coal of firewood.
And always keep some candles in your house.“

The playful violence of insurgence has no room for regret. Regret weakens the force of blows and makes us cautious and timid. But regret only comes in when violence is dealt

with as a moral question, and for insurgents who are fighting for the freedom to live their desires; morality is just another form of social control.

I lived about ten miles above our southern border and had frequent „guests“ on the ranch. I was never worried much until one day. I was carrying a holstered 6in 357mag Security

Six, mostly for wild dogs and feral hogs. I walked around a long brush pile (about 300 yds long and 10-12ft high and was looking at one of them about 75ft away. He had an AK.

That left a very cold feeling in my gut. I doubt I could have stopped him before he shot me. I never walked the place again with less than one of my rifles. Overwhelming scary fire

power. That is the ticket. Second time it happened to me I was sitting on my front porch. Rifle beside me. About 12 of them walked around the corner of the house. Things remains

very calm with MY AK on my lap. Get a rifle or shotgun. If something spooks the dog, go big or stay inside. But even inside, get the rifle or shotgun out and at the ready.

Wherever rebel violence has manifested playfully, regret seems absurd. There is an intense joy, even euphoria, in the release of violent passions that have been pent up for so long.

Bashing in the skull of society as we experience it on a daily basis is an intense pleasure, and one to be savored, not repudiated in shame, guilt or regret. Some may object that such

an attitude could cause our violence to get out of hand, but an excess of insurgent violence is not something that we need to fear.

They will be back. No doubt about it. We live right outside of Baltimore and are starting to see issues here in our area. The growing consensus of the neighbors is that we will be

keeping armed watch of our neighborhood. All of the people on our street answer bumps in the night with either, shotguns, ARs or AKs. The police just told us that if we catch them,

that we can „defend ourselves“.

Unrepressed, expansive individuals squander in all things. Riots and insurrections have failed to get beyond temporary release, not because of excess, but because people hold

themselves back. People have not trusted their passions. They have feared the expansiveness, the squandering excess of their own dreams and desires. But how can

insurgent violence ever be truly excessive when there is no institution of social control, no aspect of authority, no icon of culture that should not be smashed to powder — and that

gleefully?

Now, my wife knows to never answer the door if someone knocks. I don‘t even do it without my .45 in my hand. We are both versed in firearms. There are mace canisters,

baseball bats, knives, guns, what have you spread throughout the house. One thing is certain, we are armed to the teeth in numbers of ways. We have a 20 pound dog that goes

bonkers if he hears something strange. We will be getting a bigger dog with bigger teeth soon.

Who would want to democratize most of this? Can you imagine the drudgery of the Slurpee committee meeting at the collectivized 7-11? Surely better just to put it to the torch and be

done with all illusions.

It it is better to have the mindset of total war than to be wishy washy. Maximum force, maximum violence, maximum brutality. If you are not commited to this, you will lose.

Fullness of the passions includes full and expansive expressions of hatred and rage.

Be mindful walking outside because they can see you but you can’t see them…

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Einige Tage nach der Silvesternacht Zweitausenddreizehn zu Zweitausendvierzehn

hat die chinesische Polizei mit Schnellbooten und Hubschraubern einen Schlag gegen

einen Produzentenring der Droge Methamphetamin vollzogen. Mehr als ein Fünftel aller

Haushalte der Kleinstadt Boshe (vierzehntausend Bewohner) in der südlichen Provinz

Guangdong sollen nach Behördenangaben an Drogenproduktion oder -handel beteiligt

sein. Jahrelang hatten sich die Bewohner dem Zugriff der Behörden widersetzt. Zugänge

zur Stadt wurden dazu mit Motorrädern und Nagelbrettern blockiert, Polizisten mit selbst

gebauten Granaten angegriffen. Bei dieser Razzia wurden drei Tonnen Methamphetamin

sowie zwanzig Tonnen Rohmaterial zur Rauschgiftherstellung beschlagnahmt.

Wirkspektrum: Methamphetamin stimuliert das zentrale und das dezentrale

Nervensystem. Es bewirkt eine erhöhte Ausschüttung der Botenstoffe Noradrenalin und

Dopamin im Gehirn sowie von Adrenalin in den Nerven außerhalb des Gehirns und des

Rückenmarks. Diese Botenstoffe sind dann in sehr hohem Maße vorhanden und können

lange und extrem stark wirken.

Es kommt zu einer Steigerung des Stoffwechsels und der Atmung. Der Puls wird schneller,

Blutdruck und Körpertemperatur steigen an, die Pupillen sind erweitert, Hunger, Durst

und Müdigkeit werden unterdrückt und das Schmerzempfinden wird vermindert.

Es kommt zu erhöhter Aufmerksamkeit und Leistungsfähigkeit sowie zu gesteigertem

Bewegungs- und Rededrang. User berichten von Spaß an eintönigen Tätigkeiten.

Wirkdauer: je nach Dosis vier bis zwölf Stunden, bei sehr hoher Dosierung bis zu dreißig

Stunden.

Dosierung: Eine niedrige Dosis liegt bei fünf bis zehn Milligramm, eine mittlere bei zehn

bis vierzig Milligramm, gewöhnte User dosieren oft deutlich höher. Um abzuschätzen,

wieviel Milligramm eine Portion enthält, kann man ein Gramm jeweils vier Mal halbieren,

so dass man sechzehn gleich große Teile erhält. Jeweils ein Teil entspricht ungefähr

sechzig Milligramm. Bei einer Reinheit von achtzig Prozent sind das etwa vierzig bis

fünfzig Milligramm Wirkstoff pro Portion.¹

Wenn man diesen Angaben folgt, würde es bedeuten, dass ein Gramm (zwanzig Portionen

a fünfzig Milligramm) Methamphetamin bei regelmäßigem Gebrauch eine bestimmte Art

der Energie, nennen wie sie M-Energie, für ca. zweihundert Stunden liefert (fünfzig
Milligramm hat eine Wirkungsdauer von zehn Stunden).

Das bedeutet, ein Kilo Methamphetamin liefert M-Energie für zweihunderttausend

Stunden (Tausend mal Zweihundert). Eine Tonne für zweihundertmillionen Stunden.

Die von der Polizei beschlagnahmten drei Tonnen beinhalten somit sechshundertmillionen

Stunden M-Energie. Das sind fünfundzwanzigmillionen Tage oder

dreimillionenfünfhunderteinundsiebzigtausendvierhunderachtundzwanzig Wochen oder

achtundsechzigtausendvierhundertdreiundneunzig Komma fünfzehn Jahre. Bei der

aktuellen Weltbevölkerung von sieben Komma zwei Milliarden Menschen wären es fünf

Minuten M-Energie pro Kopf.

Von eins Komma drei sechs Milliarden Menschen die in China leben sind

neunhundertneuzehnmillionen Personen erwerbstätig. Im Jahr Zweitausenddreizehn

erwirtschafteten sie nach Schätzungen des IWF

achtmilliardenneunhundertneununddreißigtausenddreihundertsiebenundzwanzigmillionen

Dollar Bruttoinlandsprodukt. Das entspricht

einemilliardezwanzigmillionenvierhunderteinundsiebzigtausendeinhundertachtzehn

Dollar in der Stunde

(achtmilliardenneunhundertneununddreißigtausenddreihundertsiebenundzwanzigmillionen

Dollar geteilt durch achttausendsiebenhundertsechzig Stunden (ein Jahr)) und

siebzehnmillionensiebentausendachthunderteinundfünfzig Komma neun, sieben, acht,

sieben Dollar in der Minute. Wenn man die M-Energie des beschlagnahmten

Methamphetamin auf die arbeitende Bevölkerung Chinas aufteilen würde, würden Pro

Kopf null komma sechs, fünf, zwei, acht, acht, drei, fünf, sechs, neun, null, neun Stunden

also ca. dreiundvierzig Minuten (je nach Toleranz) M-Energie entstehen.Wenn man diese

dreiundvierzig Minuten in Mehrarbeit umwandeln würde (M-Energie= W) würde man

siebenhunderteinunddreissigmillionendreihundertsiebenunddreißigtausendsechshundertfünfunddreißig

US-Dollar Bruttoinlandsprodukt erwirtschaften. Der Verkaufswert des beschlagnahmten

Methamphetamin beträgt nach einem Bericht der „South China Morning Post“

einhundertsiebzigmillionen Dollar. Eine Tonne kostet also

sechundfünfzigmillionensechshundertsechsundsechzigtausendsechshundertsechsundsechzig

Dollar. Das durch drei Tonnen Methamphetamin erwirtschaftete Bruttoinlandsprodukt

entspricht demnach zwölf Komma neun Tonnen Methamphetamin.

¹ Quelle: http://drugscouts.de/de/lexikon/crystalmethamphetamin

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The Self is a prison wich lets you choose a new cell every morning:
Agender, Androgyne, Androgynous, Bigender, Cis, Cis Female, Cis Male, Cis Man, Cis Woman, Cisgender, Cisgender Female, Cisgender Male, Cisgender Man, Cisgender

Woman, Female to Male, FTM, Gender Fluid, Gender Nonconforming, Gender Questioning, Gender Variant, Genderqueer, Intersex, Male to

Female, MTF, Neither, Neutrois, Non-binary, Other, Pangender, Trans, Trans Female, Trans Male, Trans Man, Trans Person, Trans Woman, Trans*, Trans*

Female, Trans* Male, Trans* Man, Trans* Person, Trans* Woman, Transfeminine, Transgender, Transgender Female, Transgender Male, Transgender Man, Transgender

Person, Transgender Woman, Transmasculine, Transsexual, Transsexual Female, Transsexual Male, Transsexual Man, Transsexual Person, Transsexual Woman, Two-spirit

„We want you to feel comfortable being your true, authentic self“ (Facebook, Inc.)

We have to understand the 56 gender options now offered by Facebook as an upgrade of a security dispositif in which digital and biomedical techniques co-produce governable

individuals. Having long since become systemic, digital technologies promise liberation all the more hysterically whilst weaving the web of control ever more tightly.

The division between sex and gender, nature and culture, becomes meaningless in the cybernetic enactment of the body as a communication system. Interacting tissues of the

endocrinal system emit molecular signals, their media are hormones, travelling along a complex network of blood vessels in order to transmit information to distant cells.

We need new alliances.

Eat, drink, breathe, absorb with your skin: nutritional additives, care products, plastics, textiles. The industrial milieu entangles our bodies with informational environments full

of endocrine disruptors, chemically similar to the hormones of higher vertebrates, molecular spoofs deceiving hormone receptors, reprogramming neuronal behaviour and

sexual functions by simulating androgene and estrogene.

The environment becomes decidedly queer, but the database cannot deal with ambiguity.

66 materials currently identified by the biopolitical apparatus, 66 environmental toxins spewn out by the industrial machine, materials to be surveilled and controlled in the effort

to contain attention deficit and obesity, to defend sperm quality and cis-normativity, to produce healthy, docile fertile bodies and their unambigous, classifiable, commodifiable

identities.

Don’t leave your plastic baby bottle in the hot car, the anti-vaxxers whisper, or your kids will become strange.