Qwernomics Path Dependency & Semiotic Fatality (Session 4)

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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…

• 00:27:14

  in that little passage already read from the end of the essay but i'm not going to say i'm not going to say much more about the structure of this of the of this theoretical machinery now i hope that this can be part of our of our topic conversation i i'm just going to say few things about um why we're why we're…

• 00:57:22

  And so this is maybe like, you know, we have a little bit of a, you know, we have a little bit of a, you know, we have a little bit of a, you know, loop back around to kind of being about the substratum question at the top of your notes, Amy. But just like to start with, I do have that right, right? Like movement…

• 01:17:20

  And that they don't fall back into like, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the second line has to be applied. Like I gave you a second line. Like I gave you a second line. Like I gave you a second line. Like I gave you a second line. Like I gave you a second line. Like I gave you a second line. Like I…

• 01:36:41

  of the of the of the of the of the of the of the of the of the of the of the reciprocal perhaps more subtle form of control that is operating The other way if only I mean just start with simply things like the speed of dictation speed is going to have as it's it's going to be restrained by typing speed for instance…

• 01:53:24

  Like everything else. Like everything else. Like everything else. Like everything else. Like everything else. Like everything else. Like everything else. Positions is also a term that he uses actually, but I think he uses it in reference to epistrata, which makes sense. Each of these things superimposed over the last…

• 02:10:55

  Is the system of axiomatics. So they're making an implicit relationship between stratification in general and pure capitalism. That those two things are somehow being theoretically brought together. And obviously the pure computers thing. Also has a positive role. Also has a positive role. Also has a positive role…

• 02:29:57

  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, is that cool with everyone? Super. Thank you. Yeah, thanks. Have a good week, everybody. You too. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.