Zygote (website)
| Zygote (website) | |
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| Type | Personal website; online archive |
| Addresses | zyg.re, later zyg.edith.reisen; successor edith.reisen |
| Active | 2015–2018 (Zygote); 2018–2020 (edith.reisen) |
| Author | Miya |
| Type | Commonplace-florilegium; knowledge repository |
Zygote was a personal website maintained by the Miya project, hosted first at zyg.re and later at zyg.edith.reisen, and succeeded by the related site edith.reisen. Described in The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby as a "commonplace-florilegium," it collected curated reading lists, archived texts, and personal archives and documentation between 2015 and 2018.[1] Zygote is among the most important source layers of the Miya corpus: much of the material later collected in the Exegesis — its Letters, Notes, and most of its Apocrypha — was originally published there.
Zygote
Zygote functioned as a commonplace book and florilegium — traditional forms in which a reader compiles quotations, excerpts, and reference material into a personal anthology — transposed to the web. Its contents comprised "curated reading lists, archived texts, and personal archives and documentation."[1] The wiki's account of the Miya network characterizes the site's material as theory collages drawing on Julius Evola, Savitri Devi, Nick Land, and Ted Kaczynski, together with cyber-shamanism notes.
The site formed one node in what the Exegesis calls a "breadcrumb maze of cross-referencing personal websites, blogs, and personae," a structure the Exegesis treats as "inseparably embedded in the concept and delivery of the work."[1] Material was migrated onto Zygote from earlier accounts, including Miya's MyAnimeList blogging as "Sunmaid" (2015–2016). At least some published material carried the label "Dispatch," one of which — dated 2014 — is quoted in the Exegesis.
edith.reisen
Following Zygote's move to the zyg.edith.reisen subdomain, the bare domain edith.reisen hosted a distinct successor project between 2018 and 2020, described in the Exegesis as a "para-academic knowledge repository" of practical research notes.[1] Where Zygote was oriented toward literary and theoretical collection, edith.reisen is characterized as the more practical and research-directed of the two.
Role in the Exegesis
The Exegesis draws directly on Zygote for three of its major components.[1] The Letters — the seven epistolary breakpoints between chapters — originated as email correspondence, referred to in the book's acknowledgements as the "Zygote Letters," which was "published into hypertextual Zygote posts, discoverable through a chain of links attached to Miya's Twitter bio." The Notes are single-page scrap notes "directly transcribed from an Apple Notes dump and published onto Zygote and Are.na in 2016," among the oldest biographical material in the corpus. The Apocrypha section consists largely of "additional material from the Zygote website," including the florilegium Palimpsest — Fragments, the commonplace book Palimpsest — Adversaria, and the curated reading list Eschatologies.
Relation to Remilia
Zygote belongs to the network of interlinked sites through which the Miya project was distributed, alongside soma.cx, exoscience.net, kaliacc.org, and breadcrumb pages such as xlr.pw and barracks.synaptic.cc — described on this wiki as "a ramshackle electronic Kowloon Walled City of texts and links." As the earliest and most archival of these, it documents the reading and research underlying the accelerationist and esoteric synthesis that the Miya corpus later systematized and that informs Remilia Corporation's theoretical background. The site's material was preserved by followers after the project's 2020 deletion, and formed part of the archive from which the Exegesis was compiled.
See also
- Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby
- The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby
- KALI/ACC
- Down the Milady Maker Rabbithole (2022)