2.3 - Transcendental Exit

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• 00:00:00

  Welcome to lecture 2.3 on Transcendental Exit. Let's take a step back here and return to Hyperstition, which is the way in which fictions become fact, or the way in which that which is seemingly unreal or not real becomes real. Within their fictional writings, the CCRU utilise their narrative to address the cosmic…

• 00:02:18

  The writings themselves are theory fictions which are actually hyperstitional in themselves. Whilst reading these writings, we are witnessing the creation of a myth. The creation of a religion, or atheological religion. What we are witnessing is this process in reverse. That is, our reading of these texts, as events…

• 00:04:21

  is already widespread, hiding within popular numerical cultures, calendars, currency systems, numbo jumbo, etc. It uses number systems for transcultural communication and cosmic exploration, exploiting their intrinsic tendency to explode centralised, unified and logically over-coded master narratives and reality…

• 00:05:32

  Let's get back to number. Within the inside-outside framework, which is established as reality, something peculiar happens to number. The ability for numbers to communicate alters into something which at first seems like simple synthesis, but on further exploration turns into something almost mystical and forbidden…

• 00:07:41

  We see everything related to number subsumed into linearity due to our inner sense's inherent function as that which stratifies time in a linear manner. Our inner sense then traps the diagram of number into a finality. It overcodes it. For us, number is either a subtraction, a stagnance, or an addition. That…

• 00:10:05

  This Deleuze-Guattarian theory is something I go in-depth into in the next lecture. For now, I want to focus on an idea which has been apparent in these first two lectures but isn't strictly mentioned on the surface level, namely the notion of exit or transcendental exit. As mentioned in the first two lectures…

• 00:12:48

  These systems create the idea of linearity. As previously stated, both of these existences are metaphysical errors. We live in a world of transcendental possibility, which includes the potential for an invasion from the outside. But an invasion from the outside seems to take its beginnings within the inside. This…

• 00:13:43

  These techniques, this mode of communication between the phenomenal and noumenal, is taken on by Deleuze and Guattari, and to a certain degree made theoretically possible by their work. As such, this lecture ends here, paving the way for the next, which is strictly on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, and the outside…