"CCRU: Writings 1997-2003" (2017)

Falmouth, England: Urbanomic Media Ltd. (book) 2017 [this edition 2023]
8.375" x 5.875" x 1.125", 378 pages, ISBN 978-0-995450-6-1.

CCRU: Writings 1997-2003 – a compilation of texts written under the Ccru name, gathered from a now-defunct website. Originally published as an e-book by Time Spiral Press in 2015. Pictured is the 2023 fifth edition.

From Wikipedia: The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU, sometimes typeset Ccru) was an experimental cultural theorist collective formed in late 1995 at Warwick University, England which gradually separated from academia until it dissolved in the early 2000s. It garnered reputation for its idiosyncratic and surreal 'theory-fiction' which incorporated philosophy, cyberpunk, and occultism, and its work has since had an online cult following related to the rise in popularity of accelerationism/ The CCRU are strongly associated with their former leading members, Sadie Plant, Mark Fisher and Nick Land."

As noted in the foreword: "This volume gathers together finished texts written under the Ccru name... The material it compiles has been accessible in other places before, primarily on the Ccru website, but also in certain cases elsewhere... The Ccru website has flickered in and out of existence over the last decade (or more), without anybody in the old Ccru circle fully–or even tentatively–grasping how this facility has been sustained, or accepting responsibility for its preservation... There is nobody positioned to accept attribution for the 'work' of the Ccru, nor has there ever been, so this compilation has been guided by a principal [sic] of editorial modesty."

This includes the essay "Lemurian Time War" which centers around Burroughs, the span of his interests and writings, all wrapped in a time-travel conspiracy theory on "The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar", pp. 33-52. The following works by Burroughs are cited:

• Ah Pook Is Here
• Cities of the Red Night
• Dead Fingers Talk
• Ghost of Chance
• Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
• The Letters of William S. Burroughs [1993]
• Nova Express
• The Western Lands
• Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
• "The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar" in Omni, April 1987

A few additional mentions of Burroughs show up in this volume.

Contents:

• Foreword
• "The Tale of the End"
• Part 1: ID(ENTITY):
• "Communiqué One: Message to Simon Reynolds (1998)"
• "Communiqué Two: Message to Maxence Grunier (2001)"
• "Review od Ccru's Digital Hyperstition"
• "Who's Pulling Your Strings?"
• Part 2: THE CTHULHU CLUB:
• "Lemurian Time War"
• "The Templeton Episode"
• "Miskatonic Virtual University"
• "Origins of the Cthulhu Club"
• "The Vault of Murmurs"
• "Tchattuk"
• Part 3: AOE/AXSYS:
• "AOE"
• "Inside the Architectonic Order of the Eschaton"
• "Spheres and Degrees of the AOE"
• "Decadence"
• "The Excruciation of Hummpa-Taddum"
• "Flatlines"
• "Axsys-Crash"
• "Martin Bergmann"
• Part 4: BLACK ATLANTIS:
• "Hyper-C"
• "From Subversion to Submersion"
• "Channel Zero"
• "Zelda Maria de Monterre (Madame Centauri)
• "Maximillan Crabbe"
• "The Tale of the Frog-People"
• Part 5: BARKER:
• "Cryptolith"
• "Tick Delerium"
• "Barker Speaks: The CCRU Interview with Professor D.C. Barker"
• "Kuttadid"
• "The Tale of Cockroach"
• Part 6: SARKON:
• "Oskar Sarkon"
• "Split-Second Timing"
• "Between and Beneath the Net"
• "Shades of Between"
• "Skin-Crawlers"
• "Wendigo's"
• "A Tzikvik Tale"
• Part 7: CYBERGOTHIC:
• "Y2K Letter"
• "Y2paniK"
• "What Didn't Happen at the Millennium?"
• "Cybergothic Hyperstition (Fast-Forward to the Old Ones)"
• "The A-Death 'Phenomenon'"
• "Unscreened Matrix"
• "The Unlife of the Earth"
• "The Tale of Centipede"
• Part 8: PANDEMONIUM:
• "The Nomo Chant"
• "The Zones"
• "Pandemonium Matrix (Extracts from the Lemurian Necronomicon)"
• "Pandemonium Commentary"
• "Numogrammatic Commentary"
• "Qabbala Unshelled"
• "Lurgo"
• "Katak"
• "The Book of Paths"
• "Tales of Mu"
• Appendix 1: Ccru Glossary
• Appendix 2: TV Demonism
• Index

External Links: 

• Wikipedia: Cybernetic Culture Research Unit