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

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the third session of Quernomics, Path Dependency and Semiotic Fatality with Nick Land. I'm going to pass the mic off to him now. Thanks Theodor. You're welcome. Okay, I'm going to try and be really brief and just get things rolling as far as the discussion is concerned. We ended last week with…

• 00:19:28

  That all that whole historical structure. Can be read in terms of digitizable language. And so that's what a quonomic materialist reading of modern history would focus upon. Okay, my final point. And this is the most... Tangled and tortured. And I'm only really wanting to raise it as a kind of an introduction to stuff…

• 00:39:12

  That's been sort of integrated into the into the territory of the keyboard. Yes it's off to the side of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean I guess this kind of flows into like another thing I was thinking about to with in the first point with this issue of like platforms and weather…

• 00:56:47

  Okay, let me let me let me see this I think as a westerner it might be that there are people who try to go with the flow of autocorrect You know and say how can I make this work? For me and how can I learn how it thinks you know how does it work and and become? You know get into the zen of autocorrect, so it does what…

• 01:13:04

  I mean, this obviously does connect with Amy's point about the kind of neurological reabsorption of the keyboard, doesn't it? Right, yeah, exactly. It's complicated. It's complicated because of the fact that the keyboard is such a preposterously complicated system. I mean, even though, you know, on one level it's very…

• 01:35:45

  notions of authenticity as that I mean that the tendencies do you ride these notions of face you know to see as kind of somehow you know inauthentic that that you shouldn't be so concerned about face but you should be concerned as what of expressing some authentic real thing and it's the same as as that has been…

• 01:56:47

  Like, you know, it's not really that the question of governance is, in principle, something alien or extrinsic or is it in conceptual opposition to the principle of commerce, is it? I mean, there are a lot of different ways they can be articulated. One of them is, obviously, people can actually shop around for systems…

• 02:24:50

  subsequent to that next week that's the week after next I think we go into a mode that is more specifically like semiotic and is about what it what actually is quality like what are what are we seeing what it how what is this system what are its rules how can we describe it abbreviate it what kind of patterns…