Hyperstition & The New Weird II Fictional Worlds and Possible Futures 2 4

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• 00:00:00

  I hate that light. I don't dare. Hello, and welcome to the second session of Hyperstition and the New Weird, Post-Worlds, or Fictional Worlds and Possible Futures. This session we're going to talk about David Lewis's motor realism, possible worlds theory. It has a lot of influence in literature and philosophy. Along…

• 00:19:20

  You know, like an impossible world is where these two basic forms of logic that contradict each other couldn't exist in that world. Which in a way kind of goes back to what we were talking about last week in terms of the Maesu, and then, you know, the relationship between ontology and epistemology. You know, this idea…

• 00:39:59

  Yeah. It's difficult for us. Okay, now that's got me very interested. Like Lewis is, uh, like Lewis is, I forget the name of the book inside of the man in the high castle. Somehow it's made its way into our universe. I thought so. It's the only explanation I, I have for it. I think, well, maybe, Derek, you don't want…

• 01:02:00

  So the other point of critique would be, is his notion of contingency interesting enough and open enough to really, I mean, you know, approach the subject of the possible as maybe... We can find it in Deleuze or wherever. So what I like is the object-oriented OOO approach. For example, he's in the... That's really…

• 01:19:47

  And in Lewis's case, it's a semantic distinction. And there's just some silence. I... Is the... Is that clear? Is there any questions? Anyone want to problematize it? Okay. Okay. I was going to say that I think it's, um... Was it Gregory Curry you mentioned? Yes. The nature of victory. Yeah. I think, um... I think…

• 01:54:01

  share a... I don't know. They share a place in a sense of confusion of where you are, right? When you're in the station, they never... I think it's like chapter 24, like they say right in the beginning, is that they went to the... They left the station, right? And they didn't know which... Which world they were in. It…

• 02:12:31

  So, sorry. That was longer than I had to say. No, I think that's great. I mean, one of the things he does say is that he wrote it for his mother, who is obsessed with man-prison detective novels. And she was about to die, is that true? I'm sorry? She was about to die, is that true? I don't know. Yeah, I've read this…

• 02:30:17

  If not, we can end the session. Okay. So I'm just going to end.