Qwernomics Path Dependency & Semiotic Fatality (Session 7)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the seventh session of Quornomics Path Dependency and Semiotic Fatality with Nick Land. I'm going to pass the mic off to him now. Thanks Tito. So I don't know whether I should be apologizing for this time or whether it's just actually the first time everyone else has been in a good time slot…

• 00:21:27

  But it seems to be that the... the upper case characters are in a certain sense the sign for... the lower case character. So you press upper case Q and you type lower case Q. Lower case Q then seems to be like the... the content, and upper case Q seems to be like the expression. And one of the things that... come…

• 00:41:07

  But I'll stop now and see what people think about this or other things. Hey. Hi. I don't know if everyone else was getting the kind of, the audio that was glitching in and out like I was. Oh yeah, that quality. Yeah. Oh, it's, you know, it's not, it's not your fault. But can you maybe just go over so I can absorb…

• 00:57:27

  I mean, do you think that they are making, when they sort of make this, dog whistle is the wrong word, but you know what I mean, nod to this diagram, is that, do you think that there's content or that they're pointing towards something more to be mined from the way that all those relationships between those four…

• 01:13:28

  Right. Yeah, I know, like anybody who has to who has to really navigate, has to be a keyboard jockey all the time, I think, whether it's like coders or people, or data entry people or something. I mean, obviously, like, people who have been coding for a few years, like, depending on the software they use, might…

• 01:28:03

  I'd like you know what's the X for thing I want to believe but I'm not sure I can quite do that the professor Alaska s key connection I don't know I mean obviously who the hell is Professor Alaska and I was hoping after Amy dug up the actual story which I hope everyone's had a chance to look at that that would…

• 01:45:20

  Thanks. Right? Yes, it has everything in it. It's, it's, it's, it's true. So definitely I'm almost surprised it doesn't mention zip floor actually given the set of references that we've had. We could probably find the zip pattern in there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank…

• 02:09:05

  Okay, thanks guys. Adios. Thanks everyone very much. Goodnight. Goodnight. I mean, yeah, goodnight. Thanks. See you. Thanks everyone.