CCRU

## Oecumenic

From Oecumenic perspective, CCRU *was an experimental cultural theorist collective formed in late 1995 at Warwick University, England and gradually separated from academia until it dissolved in 2003*.

## Cryptic

From the own perspective of turn-of-millenium CCRU, it is both the human collective(s) (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick), the hyperstitional entity (stylized as Ccru), Crypt-denizen , and possibly more. The Barker intensity scale can be used for conceptualizing the coming together of these aspects.

> *Ccru. Cryptic hyperstitional entity, with apparent Neolemurian tendencies, involved in the scripting of various microcultural transmutations.*
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> *It's the business of the great sedentary assemblages to establish settled lineages and well-ordered sequences, whereas Ccru-process attaches itself to coincidences, glitches and unforeseen consequences - breaks, twists and bends in time.*
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As a hyperstitional entity, Ccru propagates retrochronically/counter-chronically and virally, and itself serves as a vehicle to propagation of hyperstitional entities from even furthest future / machinic virtuality:

> *Lovecraft, who specialised in narratives that looped the ancient palaeo- past into the far future, did not know that he was already infected with Ccru-virus any more than Ccru can know what strange entities are using its body to incubate the eggs from which they will emerge.*
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Ccru isn’t embedded in normal causal time (Chronos) and so it is said that *Ccru does not, has not and will never exist* (which can be interpreted that it doesn’t belong, in conventional sense, to any of present, past, or future).

Chronologically, Ccru manifested as Virtual Futures conferences (starting in 1994), Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick in 1995 — an academic institution whose history is said to be *over before it had begun*, and then as *a rumour mill, an agency of cyber-hype* around 1999.

Communique One states Cybernetic Culture to be the mode of propagation characterizing flat productive collectives. The features of such flatness, in addition to above-mentioned retrochronic arrival, are *coincidence of product-process and absolute impersonality, ahistoricity, and extraterritoriality* […] *no genealogy, geographical centre, biographical attribution, or institutional dependency*.

Thematically, Communique Two offers a great overview, which we’ll try to summarize here: aforementioned hype and hyperstition; remix culture (remixology)—applied not only to music, but also to texts; poststructuralism of Deleuze and Guattari, cyberpunk especially of William Gibson, afrofuturism especially of Octavia Butler (and other cultural futurisms), cosmic horror of H. P. Lovecraft, unconventional UFOlogy of Jacques Vallee.

## Neolemurian

From the perspective of contemporary neolemurian strains, CCRU never ended and continues to exist as a current of teachings, ideas, practices, experimentation, coincidence, and more.

1. ↑  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic\_Culture\_Research\_Unit
2. ↑ Review of Ccru's *Digital Hyperstition*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Communique One: Message to Simon Reynolds: 1998
4. ↑ http://www.ccru.net/id(entity)/glossary.htm
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 A Short Prehistory of Ccru
6. ↑ http://www.ccru.net/id(entity)/communiquetwo.htm