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the Separatism seminar: the Experialist merde sandwich — the catalog of the switch — "the whole Experialist merde sandwich, but…"

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the whole Experialist merde sandwich, but especially the Concavity, the cartographic fact of a Concavity in our map and a new Convexity in theirs, that the maps now say it’s Canadian soil

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The switch's product itemized as street-fact: the cells now "blow up ATHSCME towers and stretch mirrors across U.S. highways and hang fleur-de-lis banners from U.S. monuments... skywrite Nuck obscenities over Buffalo... rains moose-guano on New Haven... shoot O.N.A.N.ite V.I.P.s on U.S. soil" — the whole insurgency ecology (C.P.C.P. incursions on Montana, the Duluth porn-jamming, Interstates undrivable after sunset) played as regional nuisance. And the object of all of it is "the whole Experialist merde sandwich, but especially the Concavity, the cartographic fact of a Concavity in our map and a new Convexity in theirs, that the maps now say it's Canadian soil." The grievance's core is a line on a map; the theme's densest phrase for the Reconfiguration is a sandwich of shit. (The road-mirror gambit's tradecraft is surveillance-disguise's; the pure map-vs-territory is maps-territory's; landed here is the insurgency-catalog and the cartopolitical grievance.)

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