Editor’s Note: The Architecture of Resistance
The following is an extensive, multi-layered interview with Andrei Azsacra (also known as Azsacra Zarathustra), a figure whose work represents perhaps the most radical frontier of contemporary thought. Azsacra is the architect of NihillihiN, a "beyond-the-beyond" anti-philosophy designed to dismantle the "Systems of Death"—those autocratic, fascist, and metaphysical structures that seek to domesticate the human spirit.
Currently living under the shadow of increasing global censorship, Azsacra’s presence is being systematically "dismantled" from the digital landscape. As his books are banned and his social media accounts erased, this interview serves as a critical transmission of his theories on Absolute Freedom.
Joining me for this dialogue is guest co-interviewer Dave Mitchell (DM), editor of Incunabula Media. Mitchell brings a unique perspective shaped by his history with the transgressive underground (including the legendary Creation Books), providing a cultural and media-focused lens to contrast with my own (SL) focus on Azsacra’s metaphysical and activist core.
What follows is not a personal biography—Azsacra has long since "killed" his personal identity for the sake of survival—but a tactical manual for spiritual and philosophical autonomy.
Phase 1: Predatory Vision (Language as a Coffin)
SL: You describe NihillihiN as a movement "beyond the beyond." Traditional nihilism is often seen as a dead end—a void. How does NihillihiN function as an engine of Absolute Freedom rather than a vacuum of despair?
AZ: The new conservative hyper-philosophy meets a new anti-philosophical super-resistance. Nihil + lihiN = NihillihiN. What does this mean? The Nothing returns to the Nothing for the Nothing to Power against any form of 'will to power.' NihillihiN is an incredible strengthening and acceleration of the freedom of Absolute Negation! That is: the most active risk of negation against any totalitarian systems and all reactionary regimes of the past, present and future. Only freedom itself can be the perpetual motion machine of Absolute Freedom. NihillihiN is the primordial biological independence of negation. Simultaneously, it represents a revolutionary advance of thought beyond all limits of 'human nihilism' (Negation after Nihilism) and the concrete rebellion of every free life right here and now. Emptiness is not a 'vacuum of despair' and/or a 'dead end of fear.' Nothingness and emptiness are used as additional weapons against any totalitarian attitudes of the 'will to power.' NihillihiN [NN] is not just 'permanent struggle' or 'absolute resistance.' NN is the end of everything at once―all systems of single orders and mass coercions. This is why today all reactionary ideologies want to kill the NihillihiN, but in fact the NihillihiN itself is the Killer of all totalitarian ideologies.DM: The "arts" have been around as long as humans, in one form or another, so I think it’s right to say that they are a basic inbuilt human function. With the advent of patriarchal societies (agrarian), they became mediated by systems of social coercion. Methods of mass production temporarily liberated them from elitist control, but that seems to have reversed at an enormous velocity in the last ten years. How do you view that?
AZ: All radical 'arts' is the avant-garde offspring of classical aesthetics. Aesthetics, despite its rebelliousness, has always loved, loves, and will love to serve the Great Dictator. If you like, aesthetics is an 'elegant condom' on the phallus of the eternal dictator. But why? The body is primary to thought. Sperm is text. Phallus is a book! The vagina is a library. Great wisdom is nothing but an illusion of a vain mind. Any genius is as stupid as a complete mediocrity. Intelligence is only a kind of delusion. Philosophy is not life as such. All the other way. The death of philosophy is an even greater acceleration of life! Long live the death of any reactionary philosophy! Honest free courage does not need 'too great philosophy' and 'excessive big aesthetics.' Excessive aesthetics is a very mean path. In the end, all refined things become stupidly fascist. Aesthetics is a 'hidden fascist' who is waiting its X-hour. Art does not save, but only serves as a 'cover' for a new type of Dictatorship. Every 'new art' is created only and only in the name of the new Hitler. Therefore, any 'avant-garde person' is a conscious and/or unconscious 'permanent agent' of any future deadly System with its inevitable 'totalitarian cult' of Universal Death. If you don't understand this, you are doomed to disappear. Very soon!
DM: From what I’ve seen of your books, they seem to partake more of the nature of invocations and spells rather than discourse. There is something almost "autistic" about the use of language as a form of communion (between author and reader) rather than communication. Can you elaborate on this?
AZ: Dictatorship is the hidden Text as such. Any text serves the Diktat. Culture and counterculture are equal components of one whole, namely: Absolute Totalitarianism. To avoid this, I use any means of shocking communication with the reader & listeners, including sudden spitting, punches, kicks, and even revolver shots (laughs). I've burned most of my published books. Let them burn! In India and other countries, very voluminous books of mine have been published with completely blank pages; there are even interviews where I simply remain silent. I create 'logical traps' and 'irrational snares' for the mind, and I also invent 'super-rational dangers' and anomalous anarchies of Absolute Risk for the body. This really infuriates a lot of readers and numerous listeners (laughs again). For me, a book is the coffin of thought. The body must escape this coffin. The flesh must find freedom from literary tombstones and philosophical cemeteries.
DM: Straying across boundaries into the realm of "philosophy," most humans have very little or no experience at all of the subject—or at least no direct experience in that they won’t have read or studied it in any way. However, it impacts on their lives indirectly. People in the Western world, whether they realise it or not, have worldviews shaped by Protestantism. What they call atheism is actually a variant on Luther’s arguments, capitalism is Protestant in origin, and limited forms of cultural "rebellion" are Protestant in nature (whether it’s punk rock or "woke"; you are outside of that fishbowl looking at the fish inside). Is it possible to really get them to understand what you are saying?
AZ: No. I never speak lovingly, tenderly, confidentially with listeners & readers, but, as I said earlier,—I, like an anti-philosophical Dragon the Ripper, mercilessly hunt hypocritical readers and other lying thinkers. I replace their 'reading code' with a 'risk code.' Free courage! I simply try to knock out of them all the enslaving 'cognitive attitudes' and systemic 'fear blocks.' Complicated, compound, very intricate 'conceptual wisdom' is nothing but hidden 'mental repression,' forced 'cognitive attitude' and/or reactionary 'hypnotic set.' Any new philosophy plus + any new aestheticization is = the same hidden mental/intellectual falsifiability. To listen is to obey. To read is to submit. To write is to betray the reader through their obedient reading. This is very disgusting. A truly free reader needs absolute independence from their own reading. Instinctively knowing everything (all secret things-in-itself & mysterious things-beyond-itself) right away, without books, is best anti-spiritual, anti-intellectual & anti-ideological liberation.
SL: You’ve stated that you have "killed yourself as a person" to survive. In your philosophy, is the "biography" of an individual just another "System of Death" that must be destroyed to achieve true spiritual autonomy?
AZ: Initially → itself-in-itself → the body is an instinctive revolution against any reactionary systems. A free body against all totalitarian regimes as such. Where the body thinks, rebellion is inevitable! The Unique One, by the instrumentality of NihillihiN, through its always free Nothing to Power, surpasses any 'radical subject' with its compulsory reactionary 'will to power.' The will to live will always be stronger than the 'will to power.' To be 'outside of oneself' (beyond the beyond) means to be at the center of a life force that refuses to submit to anyone. Any 'personality' limits me. 'Spirit,' 'soul,' and 'mind' are my primordial enemies. I trust only the pure rebellion of life through thinking with my own body. Perhaps I am the most dangerous 'thing in itself,' as well as the most fearless 'thing beyond itself.'
