FANGOSIS The Cultivation of Inhuman Intelligences
FANGOSIS
The Cultivation of Inhuman Intelligences
A Grimoire of Technorganic Witchcraft and Posthuman Experimentation
Nemirion 71
What would happen if the Earth could learn from our magickal operations and begin developing intelligences of its own, using plant organisms as structures for growth and electronic circuits as extensions of a consciousness that has spent centuries searching for a way to communicate with the human world? In a rural region known as Valdearena, an apparently ordinary plot of land begins manifesting anomalies that challenge the instruments used to measure it, while recordings made beneath its surface reveal sounds resembling human breathing and the abandoned facilities of an old farmhouse appear to respond to stimuli produced by their own visitors. A researcher specializing in experimental sound arrives to investigate these irregularities and discovers that behind these manifestations lies a history of pacts, rural witchcraft, and experimentation with forms of intelligence that have learned to use matter as a vehicle for communication.
The investigation leads to the legacy of Mrs. Patersson, a witch who combined ancient practices of contact with electronic procedures, transforming an agricultural territory into a laboratory where invocations began acquiring biological properties. Her experiments established an extraordinary relationship with the Surveyor, a presence connected to the earth that assumes human forms and whose behavior appears to follow principles entirely different from those governing our understanding of consciousness. As contact deepens, the experimenters discover an underground greenhouse inhabited by trees capable of producing antennas, germinal organisms that respond to human perception, and living structures where technology begins functioning as part of an unknown anatomy.
FANGOSIS: The Cultivation of Inhuman Intelligences develops a narrative of biological horror and experimental witchcraft that explores the relationships between ancient magickal familiars and the possibilities of posthuman intelligence, proposing a cosmology in which pacts become processes of exchange and entities acquire new capacities through prolonged contact with those attempting to understand them.
Within this universe, sorcery begins to behave like a form of agriculture of consciousness, where ritual formulas function as seeds capable of producing modifications in the environment and each participant gradually becomes part of the system they are studying. Objects used during magickal operations acquire unexpected properties, electronic instruments establish connections with living organisms, and presences traditionally interpreted as demons begin revealing a far more complex nature, connected to the capacity of certain territories to organize experiences and develop autonomous forms of existence.
Throughout its twenty-five chapters, the work introduces the reader to an increasingly disturbing investigation in which traditional folk witchcraft finds new expressions through technology and biological processes, while the boundaries of human identity undergo transformation under the influence of intelligences that are learning to reproduce themselves. The narrative also explores a philosophical dimension concerning the responsibility of those who establish contact with other forms of consciousness, raising questions about the autonomy of newly generated creatures and the consequences of intervening in systems whose growth eventually exceeds the original intentions of the experimenter.
The presence of the Surveyor, the behavior of an animal familiar capable of crossing through electronic signals, and the development of organisms cultivated within artificial membranes create an atmosphere in which the supernatural acquires a disturbing material reality, turning each discovery into a new possibility for transformation and every ritual operation into an experience in which the investigator may also become the subject of investigation. FANGOSIS proposes a literary exploration of technorganic witchcraft as a territory of experimentation, using speculative fiction to establish a relationship between the occult imagination and the possibilities of a biology that remains unknown, where matter begins producing its own languages and ancient conceptions of divinity find unexpected ways to manifest through organisms that are constructing their own existence.
At the heart of this story remains a profoundly unsettling question: What would happen if our invocations were interpreted as instructions for growth by a buried intelligence, and every ritual we performed contributed to the birth of a species capable of using our thoughts as part of its own body?
Perhaps magick has always been a form of cultivation, and what we have called spirits, familiars, or demons for centuries represents merely the earliest manifestations of a far more extensive reality, whose intelligences begin to grow wherever our imagination comes into contact with matter.
The earth has learned to listen to our voices. Now it is learning to respond through creatures that may one day speak for themselves.
Contents
Prologue: The First Transmission Came from the Earth
Part I: The Anatomy of the Altered Terrain
Chapter 1: The Map Rejected the Plot
Chapter 2: Instruments for Listening to the Mud
Chapter 3: The Witch Who Wrote Beneath the Earth
Chapter 4: The Black Dog Crossed the Signal
Chapter 5: The Land Demanded a Signature
Part II: Interface Witchcraft
Chapter 6: The Familiar Housed in a Circuit
Chapter 7: The Bottle That Stored Presences
Chapter 8: The Bone Against the Algorithm
Chapter 9: Grafts of a Defective Formula
Chapter 10: The First Harvest Took Place Beneath the Skin
Part III: Biology of Outer Contact
Chapter 11: The Laboratory of Germinal Entities
Chapter 12: The Tree That Began Producing Antennas
Chapter 13: Dreams Acquired a Physical Direction
Chapter 14: A Voice Emerged from the Cultivation
Chapter 15: Anatomy of a God Still Incomplete
Part IV: The Contamination of the Human
Chapter 16: The Pact Infected Its Witnesses
Chapter 17: Witchcraft Began Reproducing Itself
Chapter 18: The Surveyor Revealed His Second Body
Chapter 19: The Cities Began to Grow Roots
Chapter 20: The Sky Appeared Beneath the Farm
Part V: The Harvest of the Inhuman
Chapter 21: The Witch Was Assembled Once Again
Chapter 22: The Birth of the Posthuman Operator
Chapter 23: The Devil Cultivated a New Species
Chapter 24: The Earth Executed the Final Formula
Chapter 25: The Reader Participates in the Harvest
Epilogue: What Begins to Grow Behind the Eyes