An assemblage
by Sophie Paul/ @theunofficialsoupdragon
& Juliette Pénélope Pépin/ @jppg92

Reactor knockoff

"Rebooting the reactor will remove all parts, regular upgrades and money. Only your current experimental upgrades and EP will stay with you. She thought to herself."

Assembled during their online residency with Residency 11:11/ @residency1111 in the summer 2024. This website is the sister of a print out displaying the exact same content yet from another angle.

Women tailored in business suits, cigarettes between fingers, drinks in hands, mill outside a NatWest building. This is where I’m going. As one of my feet scrapes against one of theirs, it just pops into my head that these women are here because they’re waiting for me. I have somewhere I can go – that’s a new thought for me.

— I was more interested in defining a post-human existence.
I never had anywhere to go before.

Out toward the sea.
a transformational thing, never purely solid


Belleville.png last accessed on google maps 12/08/2024 18:01
Natwest.png first accessed on wiki commons 29/08/2024 16:30

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speculation was a way to avoid seeing (by) over looking.

Nuclearity is a blur. Not merely a term but an event that overflows its linguistic confines. A knockoff exceeding representation, a glimpse of reflection demanding a continuous re-evaluation of our visual apparatuses.

cheap, exoskeleton, theory,
hits the floor it becomes,

[gestural rather than narrative,
it won’t enter the archive.1. ]






// 1. Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal (Toronto, Canada: Coach House Books, 2020) p.130.

When it
begins

it is mere speculation

I thought about the ship’s hull and the shells living on its surface.
The aquatic life forms that colonize her, like the algae capable of sequestering iodine-based radiation.
Iridescence is found on such things. Changes them. Charges them.




a multitudinous matter.
they were all so smooth and polished, that they were able to represent the image of any object,
Confuse and diffuse the boundaries between our world and another.

They became silent witnesses to the pervasive reach of nuclear contamination.
Its tendency to stick to everything and linger means that it is constantly anticipating the future.

I look and see those deceptive images, stripped of their forensic potential, perpetuating sanitized narratives
of violence, erasing lived experiences.
this is an image of only the most jewelled infatuation.


In turn, this wor(l)d comes from kruos, ‘icy cold, frost.’

Crystal. Ice. Krust – crust – a hard coating of scabs and pustules, toast, salt flats, flakes, frozen lakes, frozen waters.

Waters are so close to militarian radioactivity.
Waters are forced to receive radioactivity,

Hosting waters,
cooling waters, contaminated waters.

Waters harden, condense, conglomerate, flow. It’s stop-start frozen-fluid behaviour,
this is a thing|object that propels dazzle.

And the nuclear submarine fleet is invisible on Google Maps and obscured around the city.

An eerie absence—a lack of visible deterrents in the face of potential catastrophe.

the risk of accidents during the works and the even greater eternal destruction of the landscape.

fundamentally annihilating

The risk transforms the surface, folds together time with its holographic-effect plastics, into an anticipated future.

“Follow the thing” over a shimmering topography. This Blazing New World a vacuum, with all its dimensions, nor immaterial substances non-beings, and mixed-beings or such as are between something and nothing; a “irrepressible, erotic” topography which carries through to different worlds, – in this case, plural worldings,

hoping someone from security would ask me to leave.

—a condition that collapses the distinction between existence and de-existence.