NCCP 700-1016 Qwernomics & Semiotic Fatality Session IV

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• 00:00:00

  Yeah, just start, yeah? Hi, and welcome to the fourth session of Quernomics and Semiotic Fatality with Nick Land, and I'm going to pass the mic off to him now. Okay, thanks, Theodore. So among the few things that I think have been clearly signposted is I'm hoping that we're going to, at least one of the things we'll…

• 00:22:32

  And in introducing this language they're wanting to break with what I think elsewhere they call the hylomorphic model that opposes forms and substances. So double articulation means both the side of content and the side of expression. There are formed substances, forms and substances of content, forms and substances…

• 00:46:48

  Right, yes, it's diagraphs, aren't they? Diagraphs, yeah. So S-H and C-H and stuff. And then the substance of expression is the QWERTY layout. And then you have another strata on top of that, which then kind of goes off into the effects of that in terms of culture. But I don't know if that's going to be helpful…

• 01:10:05

  To a certain zone by the fact that tested and processed and adjusted by your actions and your behavior. And your behavior similarly regulated and pushed into forms of invariance by your perceptual and cognitive map of the world. So these... Neither of them is collapsible into the other. The two are a kind of coherent…

• 01:33:45

  Yeah, I'm maybe not sure where to connect that exactly. The other one is you have this very passionate set of subcultures starting to die away really only now among programmers with editors. So the old text editors on to Unix, so Emacs and VI. This was a massively passionate area of debate. And so people would become…

• 01:51:21

  Right, right. Um, which I guess sort of demands that we've like discussed the, the peristrata a lot, but then in terms of what the epistrata are, are in contrast, like maybe in the particular context of Cordy, it seems like these sort of like layers of finger movements versus 2D organization versus, you know…

• 02:10:00

  Axiomatics deal essentially with stratification. Challenger was addressing himself to memory only. Yeah. A quick response. No, it's fantastic. It's... I don't know. Is that one or two sentences? But it's totally, totally fantastic. Isn't it? And there's lots going on in it. I mean, obviously, this one thing…

• 02:29:51

  I will just quickly say that there's a thread started for the extra day of class. That's in the Google Classroom. If you guys go in and take a look at that, that'd be great. Okay, cool. Okay, is everyone done? If I disappear into the particle clock, how's that? I'm going to go back to the Is that cool with everyone…