Weird Studies/Hyperstition

20 Feb 2022 02:15 - 14 Dec 2022 03:19
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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.
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    • 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, Lachman toread
    • 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".
    • Supplement

    • Against totalizing ideologies (OK). But I thought their anti-politics was kind of naive, predictably.