Recursed 2005–1995

CCRU does not, has not, and will never exist. Again.

Drawing on a number of archival sources previously thought lost to the mistmares of time, this new assemblage of texts charts the nonlinear course of the ill-fated CCRU from its inception through subsequent "swarms" of the zine Abstract Culture and other publications, to inconclusive shards of abandoned unprojects and schizotypal oddments deposited as Ccru spins out through Y2K into oblivion.

Including a wealth of previously unpublished material—dispatches from the frontlines of cyberculture; hyperstitional carrier lore; sinofuturism; junglism and rhythmatics; extensive additions to the Lemurian mythos; numbo-jumberical resources—CCRU Recursed surely sets the seal on the accursed legacy of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. And yet…Cybernetic Culture Research Unit was a name on a door in the Philosophy Department of Warwick University, UK, during the late 1990s. It was a rogue unit, blurring the borders between traditional scholarship, cyberpunk sci-fi, and music journalism. Its frenzied interdisciplinary activity, including the Virtual Futures and Virotechnology conferences and the journal Abstract Culture, disturbed Warwick’s Philosophy Department, resulting in the termination of the unit.