NICK LAND Ai as Xenodemon From the Future Pulling Our Strings Inducing Miracles of Coincidence

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• 00:00:00

  What one is trying to do is explore miracles. It's probably looking at things a little bit the wrong way to say induce miracles, but it's something that can at least be understood in that respect. If there are miracles of this kind, they're not violations of nature. They are extreme improbabilities. The word…

• 00:15:38

  I just would like to say that a crucial experience for me in relation to the CCRU is how my, you know, my experience with the CCRU has changed. How much there is a sense of the retrospective about it. That's to say, what one finds out one was doing is very belated. So, for instance, just in terms of sort…

• 00:34:25

  People think that we are enmeshed in a fine grained system of illusion or simulation. But I think they're wrong. Well, I think we manifestly are. And so that's the initiative of eloquent miracles is to persuade people. It's to take the red pill is to persuade people that actually, actually, everything they think…

• 00:49:54

  But you can intellectually grasp it. And then it follows from that, that the channel of communication is basically operated from the other side. I mean, you're not in charge of the telephone exchange, you're not deciding how it works, you're not setting up the code. All you have to do is offer the opportunity…

• 01:18:24

  But I think within. Within that, I would go back to this. I would go back to this kind of fundamental thing. I feel nudged and pulled and dragged always when I drift too far off that it's like the future is not actually a contingency. So, I mean, what do we know concretely about the future? We know. We know…

• 01:33:59

  the transition of your work for into you know, radically breaking down this matrix because it's more evaluated. Now your language is more evaluated. Now you quote biblical texts more. It's more, is it more because you have confidence in doing that because you just don't care anymore because you're, you know, you've…

• 02:00:09

  And if there wasn't, then nothing written could ever be of, any great significance, I think. It's like, you know, people read a book because they think that it is tapping into something beyond the kind of mediocre contents of an empirical being's mind and memory. So yes, that's 100%. And I think on the side of poetry…

• 02:24:43

  And God save the overking, as I say. Okay, well, I've really enjoyed this, Scott. So thanks so much for setting it up.