Qwernomics Path Dependency & Semiotic Fatality (Session 6)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the sixth session of Cornomics Path Defendancy and Semiotic Fatality. I'm going to pass the mic off to Nick Land. Right, great, thanks Theodore. I'm treating this session as an introduction to the QHERSH analysis session and I'm going to try and do everything in uncontroversial steps. Hopefully…

• 00:21:38

  So, we want to, if we're going to end up, I am going to want to do some hypotheses about what has happened. We want some sense of evidence and we can see that we can't use these. We can't use any readily accessible methods. We can't use any readily accessible notion of negative entropy or its, or its, or its close…

• 00:43:47

  And so I think that there's a bunch of questions It's probably just like, what do we make of any of this? Or what consequences does it have? But the more immediate. Procedural question is that, so how can we make any kind of sense of what is going on on the Q2P row of the keyboard, of that section of the QWERTY…

• 01:04:26

  That we don't have a lot. To work on in the sense of like once we're off the front row. It's. There's almost a negligible amount of consistent. Consecutive. Structure. So to work with. Yeah. And can we. Can you clarify something? I'm I was working off of kind of an insertion model. So when you go from a and then B…

• 01:21:17

  But I was just looking at this and I noticed that a lot of the syzygies in this hold the alphabet directly in half, similar to how the lower two rows of the QWERTY keyboard are a folded alphabet, sort of, that's had an apocalypse. A lot of the, a lot of the syzygies are adjacent keys on the keyboard either. Okay…

• 01:42:19

  Or one. One of the other directions for him with the transformation from one sequence to another is obviously. I guess. Just to be very repetitive in saying that that that if the goal is to interlock ultimately with some plausible. At. Call narrative about the functioning let's say of typewriters then. I'm. I'm. I'm…

• 02:00:46

  ...and...which are also... Yes. ...almost a kind of hypothesis. Because we're choosing how to describe the... Yes. ...transformations. Yes. Yes. Well, I think the thing is that the...between those two levels... ...a kind of infrastructure that then allows these more... ...exotic... ...hypotheses to...to...to…

• 02:23:30

  Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Theodore. Thanks for the stimulation as always. Okay. See you tomorrow, hopefully. See you. Bye-bye.