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

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the seventh session of Quornomics Path Dependency and Semiotic Fatality with Nick Land. I'm going to pass the mic off to him now. Thanks Tito. So I don't know whether I should be apologizing for this time or whether it's just actually the first time everyone else has been in a good time slot…

• 00:20:24

  The reasons we might want to say this, starting with the most obvious, I think, is the fact that the uppercase version of every character is the one that is expressed on the key concerned. And the lowercase version of the character, therefore, is in the role of content. So they are. You read. find the in a way there's…

• 00:38:27

  That the confusion, the absolute delirious quality of the geological morals is due to the fact that there is no upstairs. That once you are in this thing of exploring, well, what is the issue? Well, what is the actual set of diagrammatic compulsions that we're inheriting from the keyboard? You've reached the absolute…

• 00:55:13

  It's a, it's a little diagram. Yeah. It's a little diagrammatic construction. Right. And I think the way that you put it is right, for sure. And the whole, the whole system is pincered together by these, by these elements. Yeah, no, that's probably a pretty bad visual description. I was just sort of seeing like sixes…

• 01:09:04

  The position of confusion that is coming in in Challenger's audience, of, you know, where, what is the source of epistemological authority for this stuff, that is really the delusion. And the sort of implosion of that into this chaos and confusion is actually the realistic insight of the imminence of all criteria…

• 01:26:22

  I'm sorry, I'm sorry Anders, I missed the key term there. The escape... the escape... oh that's all. Yes. Yes, C. Oh, the escape key. Yes? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely. Huge, huge. For sure. Yeah. Definitely. I don't... I'm sort of resisting being triggered on... on Esq because it's got... it has so many…

• 01:44:03

  These four letters relative to which it is dead center form a similar shape but they lack their point and are like distributed and diagrammatic, big versus small pointing in opposite directions. It seems like another diagram of double articulation. The coffin thing, I didn't understand what the coffin shape…

• 02:09:07

  Adios. Thanks, everyone, very much. Good night. Good night. I mean, yeah. Thanks. See you. Thanks, everyone.