Qwernomics Path Dependency & Semiotic Fatality (Session 3)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the third session of Quernomics, Path Dependency and Semiotic Fatality with Nick Land. I'm going to pass the mic off to him now. Thanks Theodor. You're welcome. Okay, I'm going to try and be really brief and just get things rolling as far as the discussion is concerned. We ended last week with…

• 00:25:03

  One of them is Hemslev's linguistics. And from that, they take the vocabulary that they use a lot to do with content and expression and the relation of forms and substances that they use. And they are rejigged by this relationship. And they think that Hemslev is already engaged in an exercise of strat analysis…

• 00:46:12

  Where I was in some Southeast Asian country. Honestly, I can't remember where. And there was an absolute language barrier. Because I was in some little market where people were not English speaking. And I can't even remember. Maybe it was Thailand or somewhere. With a language of which I have absolute zero competence…

• 01:00:36

  I mean, it almost just is linguistics. It's like it's... It's... It's the same, again, at least analogous to the role of the dictionary in sort of the construction of a sense of what is language. Autocorrect actually requires this, you know... It can't work unless it is an actually incarnated linguistic analysis that…

• 01:17:37

  If people want an a caserti keyboard, there has to be a whole other production and supply chain and all of this, and the same for all these others. So it's like, it is quite remarkable like that. Yeah. And so... You can turn it... Yeah. Sorry. No, no. I mean, you can turn it back though and look at, I mean, like…

• 01:38:03

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• 02:03:57

  Right. I mean, you see that in the structure of Roman governments, first of all, where to establish, you know, even base core of Rome, they had the might. They had to bribe 19 different tribes on the Italian peninsula and integrate them one by one. And then you end up with this enormously bizarre sort of congressional…

• 02:26:16

  Okay, great. Great to talk to you all as usual. Thank you. Thank you. Goodnight. Okay, have a good week. You too.