Hyperstition & The New Weird I Entities and Worlds Genres and Climates 3 4

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• 00:00:00

  Okay. All right. All right. Tony, are you echoing? Tony, are you echoing? No, let me try to talk on it. Okay. All right. So, hi, everyone. So I'm just going to talk really briefly just about kind of go over some of the stuff we talked about in the first course in terms of what the new weird is. So just really briefly…

• 00:17:27

  Um, so this idea that affects and, uh, spores and all sorts of things just move through our bodies and affect our bodies, um, and so this project seeks to explore the affective aspects of this realization, um, from staggering disorientation to queasy comfort, from threatening revulsion to the resurgence of desire…

• 00:41:21

  Yeah, but this is the guy you talk to a dog, can I just stop you there? You know the famous, the famous story about Levinas, not regarding the dog as the other. This is a famous example of him when he's in a concentration camp and a dog comes up to the fence, and he doesn't even regard the dog as the other…

• 01:00:33

  there are several authors now who are not writing speculative fiction who I feel are dealing... dealing better with the science fictional future than... than a lot of science fiction writers. I don't know exactly why that is. There might be something about self-defining as a science fiction writer that... that…

• 01:16:31

  my experience in the wilderness and my direct experience and sensory experience of that in addition to reading people like Rachel Carson and reading the semiotextbooks and all of that and kind of putting it all together. So I don't know... I don't know if I really answered your question there, but, I mean, I even have…

• 01:40:41

  don't know what that would look like um so I'd probably have to do it with the properties personally that I control which would be the Ambergris stuff and in fact there's some stuff there in terms of video games and graphic novels that I'll probably be exploring in the next couple of years so um so with the with…

• 02:11:44

  But then, he expanded it into a visual presentation. He actually like made a cool video about some kind of mechanic assemblage mirroring the human force becoming a geological one. Like actually, like we were making an impact on deep time, of course, but as we all know, the industrialization, at large, we see is making…

• 02:28:27

  I think any other conversation that we have, let's move into the classroom. Let's use... If you do not know how to get to the classroom, feel free to contact me. You know how to get a hold of me, all of you personally. Yeah, thank you for... for being here. And we'll talk next week. We'll talk throughout the week…