Hyperstition is a new blog by Reza Negarestani, K-Punk, and a bunch of other people (and hosted by William Blaze) that merits a little more introduction. Hyperstitions are, in short, “fictions that make themselves real.”
K-Punk recommends Lemurian Time War and this article as an introduction to Hyperstion:
The situation is closer to the modern phenomenon of hype than to religious belief as we’d ordinarily think about it. Hype actually makes things happen, and uses belief as a positive power. Just because it’s not “real” now, doesn’t mean it won’t be real at some point in the future. And once it’s real, in a sense, it’s always been.”
Sounds very much like Grant Morrison’s idea of the hypersigil, especially when he talks about emergence.
June 30, 2004 at 3:34 am
Many thanks for the introduction.
For those interested: the current blog?s contributors are CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit: http://www.ccru.net) members and Cold Me. Contributors: Nick Land (the author of ?The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism? + extensive writings on the net) … Mark Fisher (K-punk), Anna Greenspan (Digital Periphery), Steven Goodman (Hyperdub + Kode 9), Suzanne Livingstone (Online and published articles on Cybernetic culture) and Reza Negarestani (Cold Me). For those who wish to track what the hyperstition is I suggest: http://www.ccru.net as the base archive and then cold me website (www.cold-me.net); both moving through the philosophy of Deleuze & Guattari, Lovecraft, Pulp-horror, cybernetic culture, inorganic semiotic, hyperstitions, Mesopotamian and Semitic studies, occultural and techno-capitalist theories, …