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inventingreza

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Hyperstitional theory-fiction piece narrating the fabricated 'invention' of Reza Negarestani as a persona, referencing Land directly — direct CCRU-style material.

Provenance

Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

Series
standalone
Duration
00:09:35 (~10 min)
Words
749
Corpus cluster
video
Source/billing metadata (unverified)
Unattributed narrator (hyperstitional myth-piece)
Topics
Reza Negarestani · hyperstition · myth-making · Land
Source SHA-256 (txt)
1096556e7b043d3aa16fef75dd0e307fbfdb3979edd9373a649ce0af2888d757
Source SHA-256 (json)
07fc987d8f9c1a61d50f6782e1e32b04cc036618ded4278756010471734be206

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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: stage-1 acceptance ruling — lane unclear approved for opus-only hosting; mp3 tier deferred pending a disk volume). Series: standalone. Source: video original (.mp4).

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  • 00:00:00

    Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The geocosmic theory of trauma would not even have been a memory if it weren't for the work of the Plutonics Committee. Not that it was easy. An indirect approach was necessary. A contemporary advocate, a new candidate. If he didn't exist, he had to be invented. And this time…

  • 00:02:05

    and epidemiology of the concept. It obviously couldn't be an academic. Things have changed. Freaks like Landon Persani wouldn't even get through the doors of a university these days. No. It would have to be an outsider. Exotic, even. Some peculiar maverick. Self-taught. No qualifications. A lone voice who comes…

  • 00:02:43

    A persecuted dissident, scouring the outer reaches of the web to find other sick-minded individuals. He comes across a land, retired from philosophy and now promulgating conspiracy theory and peddling neo-occultist speculations. Land passes on the last Barker manuscript to him. Then he discovers Persani's notebooks…

  • 00:03:13

    Then move him to the Far East. Someplace where no one ever goes. Not even China or Japan. Malaysia. Construct his writings in a kind of tortured, no-nonsense, ! economic style that combines extreme etymological acuity with a sick imagination that comes from watching too many cheap horror movies. Anyhow, he's probably…

  • 00:03:49

    That could be the case. Invisible, his character must exude a kind of enigmatic charisma and an aura of exoticism. Since he comes from outside, almost anything would be credible. Keep him hidden for as long as possible. Unseen but effective. Personal appearances made and cancelled. Visa problems. Poor health. Whatever…

  • 00:04:23

    But, above all, the texts keep coming. The idea is insidious, exerting a subterranean influence. All that is necessary is that he exists long enough to effectuate inception. Once the ideas take, once the ideas are embedded, he can easily be retired. Anything could happen to a freak like that. It's true, the committee…

  • 00:04:59

    It's true, the committee took risks. Carried away with their creation. They ventured a few unnecessarily baroque twists. A fictional quantity expounding the theory of his own hyperstitional inexistence? A puppet who tells us what is pulling our strings? In the end, no one would be crazy enough to believe it wasn't…

  • 00:06:55

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