NCCP 700-1016 Qwernomics Path Dependency & Semiotic Fatality Session II

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

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the new Center for Research and Practice on Quornomics, Path Dependency and Semiotic Fatality with Nick Land. I'm going to pass the mic off to him now. Thanks Nick. Thanks Theodore. So I'm going to try very quickly, I won't say very quickly, fairly quickly to actually take us back to kind…

• 00:21:33

  once it's in its equilibrium statistical state, find temporal differences either. Like if you... the chance of a particular molecule being in one point in space at a particular time is exactly the same statistically as finding it in the same space at another time. And this is relevant to a discussion about economics…

• 00:43:30

  It's, it's the notion that there is some ready access, a, a global epistemological perspective, rather than sedimentations of knowledge that…

• 01:05:00

  Yeah, I sort of feel that there might be some translation to get across. I'm just trying to think, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like these notions of immediate needs. I mean, you know, is it cool with you to try and like translate this stuff into the terms of this quodinomics question…

• 01:23:09

  That maybe the sort of Leibovitz and Margolis paper would be more, more accepting of that than David is. Actually, I wanted to ask you, can I just go back a little bit? What's the difference between non-linearity and feedback? In the paper, as I recall, it's about whether... It's just simply about whether…

• 01:51:39

  Yeah, and with that I wonder if the idea of efficiency doesn't suffer the same problem. Just in the sense that that In other words, the resources that are used in total toward whatever phenomenon you're examining are the resources that are used. I guess from the perspective of evaluating the phenomenon like the critic…

• 02:11:51

  You know, I don't know, it's slightly twisting my head, I must admit. I think, I assume that the philosophically minded central planner might say, might say, we have a historical criticism of the spontaneous market process for landing us with this ridiculous keyboard layout that we are now locked into. You know…

• 02:31:21

  Okay. Maybe I can try and hunt around for that. Okay, cool. Great. All right. Thanks, everyone. Yeah, thanks so much, everybody. It's great. And I hope to see you next week. See you all next week. Sounds good. On the end of broadcast. Thanks. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.