Hyperstition & The New Weird I Entities and Worlds Genres and Climates 2 4

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• 00:00:00

  Go ahead. All right. Hello, everyone. Hi. Hi, Ben. Hey, Ben. Hey, Tony. All right. Okay, so the basic plan for today is I'm going to talk about the preface of the Clinopedia and Parsani, and then once we get to the hard numbers stuff, I'm going to give it to Lendl, and he'll explain everything perfectly clearly…

• 00:22:13

  So I don't know, he just kind of mapped his whole system of thought onto his version of the Tree of Life, which I'm sure you're familiar with that diagram, just like 10 sephiro. If you're not, then very easy, Google's just, if you write Tree of Life, you'll get zillions of them. And it's very hard to tell…

• 00:39:24

  The I Ching is a six-fold binary system, which, which adds up to 64. It has a lot to do with digital numeracy. I guess one last question, just because I'm curious. So the adding up of, you know, each letter, like A being 10 and C being 13. An AQ. Right, so, yeah, yeah, the AQ thing. So I know that, like, works…

• 01:00:04

  Because it's something that a lot of people have resisted. I know when the text... Soon after the text came out, a lot of people really took issue with it. I know... I remember some Deleuzians in particular really took issue with the sort of radical openness since it's... It's... It's... It's... It's... I mean…

• 01:19:54

  And then add in to the mythology. Yeah. But who knows? Ben does. Um... Anything... Hey, uh, are you familiar with that Black... with the Black Ice, uh, the grantees, Ben? Or no? Just say a little bit more about... I... I don't... I don't know that one very well, because it's... it's his earlier stuff. Um... Because…

• 01:39:16

  Um, and so I read A Good Meal first more as just how I would read critical theory or philosophy or whatever. So very much like focusing more on um, less on its fictionality and more on what it, you know, what was, what was trying to, what was being argued about ontology or whatever. Just trying to figure it out. Um…

• 01:59:55

  Does that make sense? Is he frozen? He's a pretty good statue if he's not. I think Chris has been having YFI problems. He keeps dropping in and out. Yeah. Did that make sense to anyone else? That's your whole explanation. It made sense to me. I liked what you said about the thanatropic vector and how you... It…

• 02:17:52

  No? No, I don't think I have anything smart to say. All right. Same as usual. All right. May COD be with you. And CODspeed. And CODspeed. Bye, everyone.