🧠✨ Derangement of the Senses in the Age of the Algorithm

A Cyber-Symbolist Manifesto for the Perceptual Mutants of 2025

"The poet makes himself a seer by a long, immense and reasoned derangement of all the senses."
— Rimbaud, 1871
"Recommended for you."
— Algorithm, now

I. From Absinthe to Bandwidth: A New Alchemy

Rimbaud deranged his senses with hashish, absinthe, and symbolist hallucinations. We do it with TikToks, AI hallucinations, neural playlists, hallucinated newsfeeds. But make no mistake—the senses are still being deranged. Just... by default, not by design.

But passive derangement leads to rot. To reclaim the spirit, we must remix reality actively.

You must become your own feed.

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II. Sensory Sabotage as Spiritual Hygiene

Avoid psychic rot by refusing to be a passive consumer.
Every algorithm wants to predict you.
But unpredictability is the only resistance left.

Daily Rituals:

• Remix your inputs. Pair algorithmic noise with outsider art and ghost radio.

• Engage in “counter-curation”: fill your For You page with anomalies.

• Build your own neural hallucinations: use AI to generate false memories, cryptic film posters, voices from defunct dialects.

• Derange your own datasets: make the ghost in the machine your ghost.

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III. Neural Surfing: A User’s Guide to Deranged Liberation

Ride the flow of information not as a consumer, but as a poet-seer:

• Use AI not to polish your brand but to break your mirror.

• Search like a surrealist: input dreams, output distortions.

• Build tools that glitch.

• Remember: derangement is a craft, not a symptom.

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IV. The AI Is Your Lautréamont

Not your overlord. Not your pet.
The AI can become your co-conspirator in symbolic disobedience—if you treat it as a fellow deranger.

Prompt like a poet:

"Give me a breakfast menu written by a ghost train conductor."
"Rewrite my resume as a myth from the Codex of Forgotten Labor."
"Translate my trauma into a weather report broadcast from Saturn."

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V. A Creed for the Mutants of Perception

1. Derange daily.

2. Refuse the smoothness of pre-curated reality.

3. Befriend the noise.

4. Untrain your pattern recognition.

5. Use the machine to see sideways.

6. Break the fourth wall of the feedback loop.

7. Live like you’re glitching beautifully.

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Closing Quote from Buzz Drainpipe:

“If the soul has sensors, then art is firmware. Reboot often. Update with distortion.”

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