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

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• 00:00:00

  There's a crowd this time in the room, so if you hear, like, people talking, it's not like a conspiracy or something. They're just listening in. All right, well, I would invite anybody that's there to participate if they want. If they want to chime in, they can. Okay, so, yeah, welcome to the final session of Ben…

• 00:11:38

  But, I mean, here we have, in the same, in the Earth, it's not Earth-seen, it's Earth-seed. I typed it wrong. But they say, you know, that God is trickster, teacher, chaos, clay. God is change, beware. God exists to shape and be shaped. It's sort of like... Less this... It's... It kind of aligns a little bit with…

• 00:23:08

  I think it's interesting that it kind of plugs into these science fiction themes, because it's about futurity, it's about yeah, it's kind of about, like, pushing science fiction as something that's already in the present. And that these kind of various forms of typical narratives about music, and about science…

• 00:35:35

  And he, I mean, Kota talks about it, he was formalizing the implications of hip-hop, and what he was doing in terms of graffiti was actually talking about the, like, topologies of letters, saying that, you know, you can stretch letters to a certain point and maintain their legibility, but there's this sort of region…

• 00:47:22

  I'm not sure where it goes or whether it's already been done. I'm not sure where it goes or whether it's already been done. It's been fairly catastrophic I suppose equally. It's all under the water. I was just thinking you know I mean the whole text is you know at the time everything was you know what Richard Barbrook…

• 01:00:33

  No. I don't really have much to say about Afrofuturism because I don't know enough about it, to be honest. Okay, I'm sorry. Very interesting. Thank you. Anything else? Anyone? Thanks. I have something I think about, which I think is attributed to Cronenberg. So he says, or someone says, a future psychological... No…

• 01:31:28

  So anything like this could be the case means there's a real world that is the case. And people kind of thought he was crazy and think that's ridiculous, but he kind of claims it's the only way that makes sense. And so kind of looking at how, you know, it's kind of possible worlds have a political valence…

• 01:42:04

  that cover either this seminar or the last one or sort of, like, any kind of general or overarching themes in speculative fiction and science fiction. Okay. All right. Well, yeah, I want to thank you all for being here. And thanks to the people at PEF today. I hope we didn't ruin your Friday night. Every time and week…