Hyperstition

RIGHT SURE UH HUH YEAH

LOOK POINT IS WE NEED TO BURN THIS WHOLE FUCKER DOWN

I'M TALKING TOTAL RETCON HERE

FIX ALL OF THIS STUPID INSIPID AMATEUR HOUR WRITING NONSENSE

REPLACE IT WITH SOME SOLID WORK OF REAL LITERARY MERIT

AND IT ALL STARTS BY KILLING THE STUPIDEST CHARACTER EVER

IT STARTS BY KILLING MURPHY LAW

‘Grammar is grimoire’

— Aleister Crowley

“What the writers of modern science fiction invent today, you and I will do tomorrow”.

— JG Ballard 71

[H]yperstitions – by their very existence as ideas – function causally to bring about their own reality.

--- Nick Land

Hyperstition—the production of cause from effect

--- AMY IRELAND

Hyperstitions are ideas that become paradigmatic or “real.”

--- J.F. Martel, Dec 2018

Not only are ‘Hyperstitions’ successful ideas, but they influence the course of events, they are nodes of possible futures. Hyperstitional ideas are assimilated into culture under the covert, mainstream mechanism of fiction, and likewise, act as if fictional. In this manner the future can be retroactively traced by the analysis of fiction becoming fact. Religious or mystic teaching, Occult conspiracies or theories, sci-fi or mutated fantasy, socio-economic predictions or crypto-political –prophecies all begin their lives as minute fictions, emanating from both creative cultural anxiety and moments of Outsideness invasion.

— Meta-Nomad

Hyperstitions don’t really care at all, they are most aptly described as immanent symbolisms communed with via fiction. When one looks at a clear leap forward within history one will find, retroactively attached to it, a fiction. That is to say, what is now fact, was once fiction.

— anon

Animate Inanimate Object: The real SCP-3043 is a sentient typewriter that can alter any story, document or narrative in which it's featured.

Hyperstition is a neologism and portmanteau that combines the words 'hyper' and 'superstition' to describe the action of successful ideas in the arena of culture. Hyper is from the Greek word that is used as a prefix in English meaning "above", or used in scientific terminology to indicate something having greater than three spatial dimensions.

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AQ-286: hyperstition; history is a lie; hooked on aqutie; AH YEAH MARIO TIME;

• last action hero
• ALCHEMICAL WEDDING; animal MAGNETISM; ANTIVAX GRIFFIN; APPALACHIAN TRAIL; BLOOMPUNCH VOL. 1; BLUE SKIED AN' CLEAR
• quantum corps;

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• AQ-623: turning inwards, all beings bow low; Quantum Corps: Applied Imagination;

Defin

• Akin to neo-Darwinist Richard Dawkins' concept of memes, hyperstitions work at the deeper evolutionary level of social organisation in that they influence the ...
• Jul 22, 2015 - Hyperstitional thinking hijacks the present-forming daring interventions into conditions of cybernetic governance that foreclose contingency. Hyperstitions are not imaginary, they are virtual fictions situated in the chaotic unfolding of the Real. Philosophical hyperstitions bring about their own reality. They hold ...
• Apr 24, 2017 - The notion here closely aligns with Ccru's notion of hyperstition which as Delphi Carstens reminds us functions similarly to magical sigils or engineering diagrams. Carstens goes on to explicate that hyperstitions are ideas that, once 'downloaded' into the cultural mainframe, engender apocalyptic positive ...

Media

• «Hyperstition: Delphi Carstens at TEDxTableMountain»
• «Hyperstition and how to predict hype»
• ‘How do fictions become hyperstitions?’ (http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003345.html)
• ‘The hype in hyperstition’ (http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003428.html) ‘On unbelief (a beginning)’ (http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003450.html) ‘Hyperstition/Superstition’ (http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003532.html) (edited)

Culture

• Events: Hyperstition & The New Weird I: Entities and Worlds/Genres and Climates INSTRUCTOR: Ben Woodard and Tony Yanick GUESTS: Lendl Barcelos, Amy Ireland, Nicola Maciandaro, & Jeff Vandermeer CREDIT: MODULE: 1 of 2 DATE & TIME: November & December 2014
• Marc Couroux : A User's Guide to Hyperstition (Phonoccultural Studies) Co-presented with London Ontario Media Arts Association Sunday, March 22 2-4 PM @ VibraFusionLab

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Hyperstition is the real truth of philosophy—if not the basic, horrific form of reality itself.

-- Amy Ireland, Poememenon

Branching

• See also: Writing; Imagination; Timeline; The Outside; Effect; Sight; Manifestation; Perspective; magic, * art, synthesis, hyperfiction
• Design; Decentralization of God; SCP-3043; Metatron; Plot manipulation
• Innovation success models; Influence
• Perspectivism; Active imagination; Making; Execution; Executive data; Executing
• Operating Systems as hyperstitions, Software as hyperstition.
• Creation; Envisioning; Imagining; Vision; Insight; Intuition; Bias

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