Qwernomics Path Dependency & Semiotic Fatality (Session 8)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the final session of Quernomics Path Dependency and Semiotic Fatality with Nick Land. Here he is. Oh, can you hear me? Yes, yes. I sort of suddenly lost video quality, but I don't think anything disastrous has happened. Can you still hear me? Yeah, you're loud and clear. Yeah. Okay, that's great…

• 00:22:39

  All three of those things are all interchangeable and inter-translatable. All three of those things are all interchangeable and inter-translatable. All three of those things are all interchangeable and inter-translatable. All three of those things are all interchangeable and inter-translatable. So, actually…

• 00:43:42

  Any. You know, would be sent by that. So I don't know where that goes. But it's a way of seeing ourselves as trying. No, no, no, definitely. I think that's really, really good. I mean, like if our alien, if all cultural continuity is extinct, except for the fact that this archive still exists, at least in sizable…

• 01:07:58

  All of these particular mystical teachings that deal with the Tree of Life. Which is the decimalism through the ten sephirah. And so there's this kind... I mean obviously there's a decimalism in our plane of consistency here too. So there's... I feel like there's almost this kind of very vague haunting of this…

• 01:26:40

  so And in fact, I think even at the extreme Intensity is defined as feeling all space but two different degrees of intensity, so I'm not even he has a particular punctual point of disappearance and so so the whole of the biosphere is in is inside the Electrosphere and and and inside the rat Eyes electricity Yeah, I…

• 01:50:11

  It's just like it's a, it's a break with asymmetric sides. I don't really know how to describe it quite yet, but there's definitely a strong threshold of almost like ontological alienness, alienness happening. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I'm sort of tempted obviously to sort of start talking about these clocks…

• 02:08:34

  So that as isolated in space is a stratic optic. And that on the plane of consistency, instead, a cosmic plane. With modes of machinery engagement, which are cosmically comprehensive. And which we're incapable of ascertaining out of strata. So you're pretty. choppy just then, Nick, but I think you were saying that…

• 02:29:26

  And I hope people have my contact details if they want to send things down other channels. And so have a good yule, everybody, if I don't communicate with you before. It's been great. Super. Thanks, everyone. Okay, bye-bye. Thank you.