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Deleuze and deterritorialization, Lynch scene where they drive from highway down progressively smaller roads...the weird happens in deterritorialized spaces. Line of Flight ≡ that which moves in a deterritorialized direction. ≡ destabilized meanings.
They aren't being particularly Landian.
What makes a mythos?
Like memes (that sounds right). Land examples: "the holy city of jerusalem", cyberspace, money.
Discussing The Selfish Gene , Dawkins can't quite do it without bringing in telos language.
Good emphasis on the agency of the ideas themselves. Not just agency, auto-telic, autopoeitic (they do use the term autopoesis later on, I think in a quote from William Irwin Thompson).
Hyperstition undermines rationality and leaves you in a world of chthonic drives
Social construction vs hyperstition. They seem to think there is some big difference there; that hyperstition is more in touch with the real or something (not sure I get the distinction, seems based on a cartoon idea of social construction, but what do I know). Hyperstition as "in touch with cosmic forces" in a way social construction is not.
But I think this is a slightly lame view of hyperstition, it's not that they are in touch with cosmic forces, they are the cosmic forces.
Speaking of lame, there was explicit discussion of how out-there Land and his ideas were, and how the WS folks are bourgeoise Subaru-driving weenies compared to him (me too of course).
Tale of the Toronto egregore. The 16th century car mechanic.
Oh nice passage about how William was human because of his inner conflicts, how personality is the result of resolving those conflict successfully (very Ainslie) and madness the result of failing to...from The Blood Of The Saints : The Baptist's Head
Secrecy and the occult. Crowley opened up occult knowledge, now it's a section at Barnes and Noble which is a contradiction.
Mention of some Magical Marx and the hyperstitional nature of capitalism. Read from the Manifesto, I approve.
Connections between occultism and fascism (Evola). Well there is also Starhawk etc.
Refs to Dark Star Rising, Lachmantoread
Discussion of the nature of magick and the importance of banishing: "I like to have ideas, but I'm not a fan of ideas having me".