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

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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: owner ruling 2026-07-11: institutional recordings released except fee-charging course content; lane recent-institutional -> recent-institutional-released). Series: Hyperstition & New Weird. Source: video original (.mp4).

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• 00:00:00

  Alright, hello and welcome to our final session on Hypercision and New Weird. Today we have some really interesting guests and we're going to be discussing True Detective, Thomas Ligotti, pessimism, a whole bunch of things and then this, we're mostly coming from also from this True Detective series which is also…

• 00:17:29

  Or by... When you put fictions to work at the service of a new fiction, you don't know what you're going to bring, right? Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Probably the most obvious example of this is the use of the King in Yellow in True Detective. So because on the one hand…

• 00:37:40

  Hyperstition is... It is like the mask. It is like the... It is like the... In order to... In order to be somebody in... In order to be something, to be someone, in order to exist, one has to not be someone, right? One has to be a fiction. One has to not be oneself. So... And then we can even reverse it further…

• 00:55:25

  That's a great way to put it. Obviously, but that's... And I would just affirm the fact that mysticism has always, sort of always already been there. I mean, mysticism is the... Is the... Is the... The vector of... The vector of spirituality, which insists upon the real. It insists that, you know, belief is... Don't…

• 01:13:57

  And it's also, I think that's a really good formulation, yeah. And it's also, I mean, in terms of the affect or whatever, it's like it's, you know, predicated almost on a desire to be too, to get too close, to be too close, you know, to like read too closely to, and to also inverse, invert the sort of love of inverse…

• 01:35:54

  Mm-hmm. And he calls this the smell of the psychosphere. Mm-hmm. Uh. Comes back up again. And then, and then we talk about it. I have to look through my notes real quickly. Well, it's in, it's in Rust's, you know, infamous, you know, happy vision at the end about a warm black. Subsequent. Like a warm, you know, like…

• 02:01:14

  the importance of making the distinction between ethics and morality. And my understanding of ethics... Ethics is, in a way, it's essentially amoral. Because it's hyper-moral. Ethics is hyper-morality. Ethics is... It's like... It's like where... You know, it's like where the good... between distinct... The…

• 02:19:40

  Like, nobody really ever knows. That's kind of fun. But maybe people don't like that format, so... That's great. Yeah. No other... No other comments, questions? All right. All right. End the session, and then we can... Yeah. Thank you.