Qwernomics Path Dependency & Semiotic Fatality (Session 2)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the new Center for Research and Practice on Quornomics, Path Dependency and Semiotic Fatality with Nick Land. I'm going to pass the mic off to him now. Thanks Nick. Thanks Theodore. So I'm going to try very quickly, I won't say very quickly, fairly quickly to actually take us back to kind…

• 00:22:01

  relevant to a discussion about economics because the connection has been made by the complexity people. I think very persuasively that the classical canon of political economy assumes an equilibrium model of, they're not talking about thermodynamics, but that their process is isomorphic with a near equilibrium…

• 00:48:56

  perspective because a universal perspective is not something that is just given to us yes like um so i'm agreeing to over three kind of people at the same time i think that's a good point yes i mean i both with chokias's point and amy's point i think i think totally i don't i mean again people you know i welcome…

• 01:08:58

  This is something that they're just trying to be cooperative with David really. For optimal typing speed, keyboard should be designed so that A, right and left hands equalize. B, the load on the whole middle row is maximized. C, the frequency of alternating hand sequence is maximized and the frequency of same finger…

• 01:30:19

  Correction or a systematic dispute with the entire possibility of anti-capitalist critique? You know what I mean? If you don't think David's critique works, the most inflated my claim is if you don't think David's claim works, aren't you saying that there simply is not a critique left on the table? Yeah. I don't know…

• 01:47:54

  In this case, it's going to be a keyboard in which case it's not like you can say, well, we'll optimize. There's a gap between an optimization criteria, the materials to which you direct toward it. And it's just a matter of redirecting it. Instead, if you, if you think of it, maybe as there's kind of maximally dense…

• 02:05:56

  Both of them, as an economist, should obviously try to be neutral if they're going to persuade people, but at the same time it doesn't require any particular commitment to the notion of a disinterested perspective. In a sense, obviously, from the left, they were just simply talking about collective interests rather…

• 02:30:07

  reboot with next week for sure But let's I think it would be Pointless now to try and let's not you know it's too big to try and To try and stuff it into whatever extra time we have at this point I think Great that sounds good um Do you have? Any readings that you'd like me to post in the classroom for next week well…