Nick Land Explains the Numogram Part 2 How to Use the Numogram

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• 00:00:15

  Theory has to have a priority Capitalism and Austrian intelligence are the same thing The dimension of the future has disappeared There is actually no representation anymore There is no final resolution to contradiction Militant predatory Italian snake handling over abysses Never gets much wilder than this Hi…

• 00:30:49

  I'm quite confident. I'm confident that if people did it, they'd get stuff out of it. And same with all of this stuff. Like, I don't do any of this. I don't do any of the two things I'm just going to go into. But that's not because I don't think it would work. It's just because it's just not a priority…

• 00:51:00

  You use those to generate one of 64 hexagrams, and those hexagrams will have some combination of broken and unbroken lines. Each of those unbroken lines can be moving or not moving lines. And so to lock it onto the numeraire, I think all you have to do is to just go back to the numbers we've already set. You…

• 01:13:00

  of other ways people can use it, but it probably is, it covers quite a large space of how people might be realistically expected to use it. So the first one is cartographic annotation. That's to say, this is an enumagram, it's just a set of numbers and lines and relations. There's no, there's nothing on there. And…

• 01:34:28

  Well, I mean, I feel that. Cause I mean, again, at first it's like, oh, one thing adds up to, okay, whatever. But it's that buildup. So, I mean, yeah, the, the naive knee jerk response is, oh, well. Nick and Mark and Anna sat around and figured out how to get the cybernetic culture research unit in this specific…

• 02:00:45

  It's be guided. Now, look. Is it... Okay, let's try and just even thrash this out. Like, is it Satan guiding my attention? You know, is it Satan that has decided that the life is computation is 360 and that the numeral number is 360 and the tree of knowledge is 360? I mean, is Satan kind of basically set this whole…

• 02:20:40

  Sometime in the future, you can elaborate on that. Yeah, some other time. We maybe do an Atlantean thing. Okay. I heard, for instance, I'm not going to do many digressions because I know we're like racing the clock, but interestingly, Dugan's name for his big enemy, like the liberal, philastocratic kind…

• 03:02:46

  Thanks for watching! Happy, happy Halloween! Happy, happy Halloween!