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hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org
A public-facing hyperstition homepage text that condenses the concept into a portable lexicon of feedback, fiction-making, and temporal engineering.
Archive condition
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Core idea
The site treats hyperstition as a practical orientation toward reality engineering rather than as a merely interpretive theory. It frames fiction, myth, and signal circulation as active components of world-construction.
Homepage prose works by compression. Definitions, slogans, and linked fragments are used to give the concept public coherence while preserving its sense of occult and temporal instability.
That matters because the public afterlife of hyperstition depended on interfaces like this. The idea survives by becoming legible enough to circulate without losing its charge of world-making and feedback.
How to read this text
Read the shortest definitional passages first, then note how the language of signal, carriers, and unbelief expands the concept beyond ordinary superstition.
Treat the page as a public relay rather than a complete theory. Its value lies in the way it packages hyperstition for movement across scenes and readers.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 273
Crowd (the Z line) [http://www.cold-me.net/mb/messages/230.html] ... although hyperstition is an intrinsic abomination to monotheism, but on the other hand, the already sabotaged monotheism by the Z. crowd enables the autonomous emergence of hyperstitional particles as ‘devouring lines of a diabolical polytics’ and not merely contagious fiction or positive unbelief.
Definition · paragraph 239
How Do Fictions Become Hyperstitions? Linda Trent (June 19, 2004) How do fictions become hyperstitions? The projection of a consistent world is one prerequisite, but, whilst this is assuredly a necessary condition of hyperstition, it is far from being a sufficient one.
Definition · paragraph 239
The projection of a consistent world is one prerequisite, but, whilst this is assuredly a necessary condition of hyperstition, it is far from being a sufficient one. We only have to compare Lovecraft with the likes of Tolkien to establish this. If Lovecraft remains the archetype of a hyperstitional practitioner, it is because his fictions have long since escaped their putative author.
Definition · paragraph 353
Myths are just hyperstitions that have ceased to be effective, where unbelief has subsided into disbelief. Hyperstition's plane of unbelief, on the other hand, requires neither belief nor disbelief. While this is obv right, we do need to concretely thrash this through I think --- Let's put it this way: how is hyperstition different from kynical instrumentalism, which wd be the flip of UBL and his cult of belief?
Mechanism · paragraph 355
Plus, I would say that Maoism had not much to do with 'belief' as traditionally conceived, either as religious belief or doctrinal adherence. Surely you have to be careful about the formally decisive character of different social/religious/political formations? Further, does Hyperstition need to defend its privileging of 'fiction' as chosen affective motor?
Appears in sections
Hyperstition and Fiction-Making Primary section
The archive's central model of fiction as causal force, feedback loop, and world-making process.