Hyperstition & The New Weird II Fictional Worlds & Possible Futures 3 4

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• 00:00:00

  So hello and welcome to the third session of Hyperstition, Fictional Worlds and Possible Futures. Today we have a guest, Michael Sisco. He'll be on in about one hour. Ben, my partner, is going to actually intro the class. I did run and kind of lead this seminar. Because Ben's unfortunately sick today, so we're going…

• 00:16:11

  It's pretty interesting. But I want to post it for people who haven't read it. I mean, I guess this one's kind of difficult because we have the TED Talk to go off of and a little bit of other things, and the book that you mentioned is on there. But this book that we assigned came out a little bit later than…

• 00:30:51

  I think it's very difficult to pull off that feeling. To think it's not just, you know, when you read, I feel like there's a... there's a minimal gap between, you know, reading something like Burroughs, where you're just like, okay, there's crazy shit happening all the time. And then reading something that…

• 00:44:13

  I knew sort of what stations it had to pass through. And it was just a question of getting from one place to another. In a way that... Or really dreaming my way from one place to another. So, yeah, it was a kind of hand-in-hand procedure. Kind of aleatory, kind of... Mostly aleatory, but within certain parameters…

• 00:56:00

  It basically says the term can refer to an actualised fictional character who's self-ficknosing. So I think nemosis is a kind of magic. And I just wondered if you could talk a bit more about that. I couldn't even find the word, like, in the book. I'm sorry, I had trouble understanding that one. In the glossary…

• 01:08:12

  Or lines of... Like he used the Deleuzian phrase, lines of flight that would come off of it. And so, while I didn't sit down and say to myself, oh, I'll write a Deleuzian novel and it will have this recipe. It was more like I... But I still knew that I wanted to write it. Something that reflected my own sort…

• 01:33:33

  So... uh... they all have at base these first three. I don't know. It's quite a lot, but it's a 3i Magazine interview with, uh... on this... on this new book, actually. And it's... and that is just trying to summarize what is quite a long response to this, uh... question. Uh, there's the... yes. Ben... Ben is... Ben's…

• 01:47:18

  Oh, Derek? Derek? All right. I saw you come up on the screen, so I thought you were trying to say something. Sorry. Oh, no, I'm not. All right. So, yeah, with that, I guess, from there, we'll just meet the 7th and continue everything on the classroom with any questions. If we have any updates on the guests, we'll…