CCRU - Lecture 1

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• 00:00:00

  okay so we'll get started so welcome to the course uh invaders from the future the CCRU and their legacy uh here's just off the bat my email if you have any questions especially people listening online uh yeah feel free to email me um but yeah apart from that okay so let's get down to it so who or what…

• 00:20:50

  But this part of the novel, this essay, is by Nick Land and it's called Meltdown. It's not only Land's first, I'd say, fully formed theory fiction but it's probably the most notorious of all of the CCRU's theory fictions. So it's worth going into, I think, as an introduction. OK. Far from a typical academic essay…

• 00:34:05

  She says the Atlantic seaboard monsoon is forecast to continue for another week. Aftershocks have raised the LA death toll to slightly over 70,000. We wish you a good evening here at XTV and hand you over to the Beavis and Butt-Head Rewind show. Okay. We're going to go through this. We're going to go through…

• 00:47:13

  Far from being a testament to our perseverance, then, we are just one species among others that sat on the throne of the animal kingdom for only a short time. Or as Barker puts it, the efflorescence of mammalian life occurs in the wake of the KT missile which combined with massive magma plume activity in the Indian…

• 01:00:39

  So obviously feel free to leave if this is heinous to the ears, but, uh, I'll nonetheless play it. So the first one's the CCRU track, if I can get it working. Of the CCRU's theory fictions are still written in relatively ordinary prose to some extent. Uh, their later works become increasingly experimental in an effort…

• 01:22:17

  I mean, the, the basic idea is that through, through primes and factors, uh, the CCRU mirrors mathematics' own twofold process of expression and content, but in order to generate excessive heterogeneities rather than unities. Again, on the slide, uh, the basic idea is that for the CCRU factorization and primes provide…

• 01:42:36

  He says, The errors of numerology are only the common failures of logic and philosophy, human vanities. Overcodings of numerical relation by intelligible forms, archetypes or logics, are unsustainable reductions reefed on the unsurpassable semiotic potency of number. So for the CCRU, numerology is the... very essence…

• 01:56:30

  Yeah, good point, yeah. Yeah, as I said that, the last half is, will be the most intense it gets. So it's, next week we're going to delve into the kind of more literary mythology that the CCRU develop and look at their work or so on megacities in Shanghai and things like this. So yeah, don't be scared. But also…