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Top Secret MAJIC Explaination

“The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence”

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

The primary research focus of Obscurantist is paranoid technologies and contemporary mythologies of memory and forgetting. Specific subjects range from hypertext and magick, to UFOs and conspiracy theory, investigated through the lens of alienation and anomie.

The results of this research are gathered in the Obscurantist Mnemotechnical Archive , a ongoing compendium of references and notes regarding the history and mythology of paranoid technology.

OMA: Alphabetical

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  2. A
  3. B
  4. C
  5. D
  6. E
  7. F
  8. G
  9. H
  10. I
  11. J
  12. K
  13. L
  14. M
  15. N
  16. O
  17. P
  18. Q
  19. R
  20. S
  21. T
  22. U
  23. V
  24. W
  25. X
  26. Y
  27. Z

Obscurantist has also begun collecting a library of texts, focusing on historical artifacts which are at risk of deletion or inattention, and works with a particular mythopoetic or aesthetic merit.

Our goal is to bring uncertainty and confusion to a field of study where certainty and clarity have brought the world endless misery, working to soften the bright lines of ontological binaries with the gentle shade of epistemological play.

Obscurantist began with the BlebNet AnomieFind database in 2001. AnomieFind was itself an outgrowth of the BlebNet Anomie unit which went online in 1999. And the Anomie unit was a mutation of the MESSIAH project, which went online in 1996. Obscurantist continues today as an investigative agency of Superbunker.

If you have questions or are interested in research opportunities, please contact Superbunker, attention: Obscurantist.