/lit/ - Literature

>>9885124
http://www.ccru.net/syzygy.htm

It's the Numogram or Decimal Labyrinth developed by the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit in Warwick (Sadie Plant, Nick Land, et al.). I am not particularly interested in numerology, but their approach was deep & contemporary enough to be fertile. IMHO same goes for Negarestani's Cyclonopedia.

>>9885323
> On June 3, 1769, British navigator Captain James Cook, British naturalist Joseph Banks, British astronomer Charles Green and Swedish naturalist Daniel Solander recorded the transit of Venus on the island of Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world. During a transit, Venus appears as a small black disc travelling across the Sun. This unusual astronomical phenomenon takes place in a pattern that repeats itself every 243 years. A "secret" mission that followed the transit included the exploration of the South Pacific to find the legendary Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown land of the South."

Impressive, thank you! The four-person crew defined by their professions reminded me immediately of VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy:

>The book (Annihilation, first book in the trilogy, ndr) describes a team of four women (a biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor) who set out into an area known as Area X. The area is abandoned and cut off from the rest of civilization. They are the 12th expedition. The other expeditions have been fraught with disappearances, suicides, aggressive cancers, and mental trauma.