Hyperstition & The New Weird II Fictional Worlds and Possible Futures 1 4

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• 00:00:00

  Okay, thank you all for joining us. This is the first session of Hyperstition, and it's an extension of our Bananize seminar from a few months ago, which we did Hyperstition and New Weird. This will be trying to extend upon the concept of hyperstition and to explore more science fiction and also explore concepts…

• 00:15:09

  So this idea, you know, that famous part where he has the four kind of people arguing, but of course, these people don't really exist, the strongholds, the correlationists, we correlationists, and so on, but nonetheless allows him to escape correlationism. So I think rhetoric is quite important to him, and that this…

• 00:36:17

  interior to the practice of science it's about you know, our experiences and how we talk about them it could be a little bit deeper it could be what our knowledge is and what is outside of our knowledge it can be this kind of more extreme view so it could be like an epistemological problem within our knowing…

• 01:06:26

  I mean, when he's talking about extra science fiction 2, he's saying that we can chronicle these things, but they no longer have universal properties, right? They no longer have scientific... natural causes or... I think... I think... It would just be... It would just be the fact that we can record contingency, right…

• 01:35:56

  in Fisher's sort of Children of Men example. Yeah, I still haven't read that book, actually. I should... Yeah. It's cool. Yeah, it's... I mean, it's talking about... in a different sense that Bifo's talking about in After the Future, they're talking about very much similar... very much similar stories with regards…

• 01:51:51

  Right. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And it's sort of like the last refuge. And it's just about, kind of, yeah, the futility of that. Of, like, the fact that, you know, eventually the planet or the sun, some conditions will change, then that, you know, it will be inhospitable…

• 02:08:01

  So hopefully if you guys can get it. If you can't, I should be getting my...like I have a copy coming very soon. But that's... But there is a pretty good...there's a pretty...there's a TED talk actually that he did that I posted that kind of gives you the premise of like the questions that we will be asking. And I'll…

• 02:21:41

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