Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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• 00:00:18

  My name is Eduardo and together with Erika I will be hosting the Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar podcast. This podcast will focus on collectives and groups that work with political action, with field reproduction and with artistic practice. We will be looking into a series of collectives that works with these things…

• 00:07:30

  I'll read it again. Hyperstition is an element of effective culture that makes itself real, through fictional quantities functioning as time-traveling potentials. Hyperstition operates as a coincidence intensifier effecting a call to old ones. Hyperstition is a suspension of reality and fiction, opening a path…

• 00:14:32

  This is from the text on Burroughs, right? The many sequences on Burroughs, right? Yes. We must remember that these texts, they are all stolen from this enigmatic figure that they call William Kaye, right? William Kaye is like this agent, this agent from the board. We're going to see in this text how the board stands…

• 00:21:24

  There is this, this excerpt on the beginning in which they say that there's no difference between a hoax, a religion and a society. And I think this probably encapsulates this whole idea that you have always a level of fiction in everything. And I don't know, as an artist, looking to this kind of outlook and trying…

• 00:29:47

  Like, he sees himself as a lemur in one of the passages. And, I don't know, for me it's entirely funny, this idea of lemurs as these supernatural creatures. And I really like the idea of the ghost as well. I think this also taps into their will to create something that is not ascribed to temporality. And also, another…

• 00:35:54

  But many non-Christian cosmologies understand this limit in a different way. When we feel a bit awkward about this connection, we have to remember that we look with the eyes of Western civilization, which splits the rationality and spirituality, making it feel like those things don't belong together. CCRU searches…

• 00:43:00

  And then they have this event, which they made together with the CCRU. Anyone that searches for it, you can find it on OrphanDriftArchive.com. And there, if you go at... we have a little problem of pronouncing this word, we're sorry because we don't know, but it goes something like zizi, or zizi. Which was this event…

• 00:50:16

  Thank you. Thank you for listening until now. Thank you and see you in the next episode.