/lit/ - Literature

>>12793567
Functioning as magical sigils or engineering diagrams hyperstitions are ideas that, once ‘downloaded’ into the cultural mainframe, engender apocalyptic positive feedback cycles. Whether couched as religious mystery teaching, or as secular credo, hyperstitions act as catalysts, engendering further (and faster) change and subversion. Describing the effect of very real cultural anxieties about the future, hyperstitions refer to exponentially accelerating social transformations. The very real socio-economic makeover of western (and increasingly global) society by the hyperstitions of Judeo-Christianity and free-market capitalism are good examples of hyperstitional feedback cycles. As Nick Land explains: “capitalism incarnates hyperstitional dynamics at an unprecedented and unsurpassable level of intensity, turning mundane economic ‘speculation’ into an effective world-historical force”(email interview).

In the understanding of Ccru, which differs from structuralist and post-structuralist takes, cultural reality isn’t an inert system of signs, rather, the symbols ( i.e., the symbolic; i.e., language) conjures and then structures reality. There is something inside of or (even scarier) outside of the text... this element can be invoked via sound, or various forms of listening. Therefore paying attention to symbols is the basis of a hyperstition: that it makes itself real, rather than being in a binary of real vs. not-real, it is becoming-real. A hyperstition conjures reality in degrees of making-it-real. The more violently one tries to suppress the impulse toward myth/hyperstition, the more one inadvertently spreads it. It’s a cultural virus, that makes itself real, and trends toward apocalyptic feedback loops. It's proof that the symbolic produces reality. The understanding of hyperstition is that it's not a mere fiction, rather it reveals that "reality" itself is composed of layers of fictions (hypostition).

>>12794138
Similar to the Lacanian understanding that the Real (or raw sensory data) is what any "reality" must suppress, and that reality as we experience it is in the symbolic and the imaginary, but not the Real, hyperstitions are not of the Real, but they create our reality. Therefore it becomes totally irrelevant to dwell on the distinction between "x thing is an effective fiction that hypnotizes people because psychology" and "x thing is magic". The other thing to consider, and in this lit think of Nietzsche as the most mystical "atheist," is Nietzsche and Deleuze's corpus and specifically the parts about how culture is forged out of the symbolic, which is inscribed into memories via cruelty and pain. In this sense, every word is tattooed, every word is written in blood.

Capitalism reconstitutes symbols and rituals into spectacle. It’s no conspiracy, capitalism bewitches people out in the open through media. Debord's work is concerned with the bewitching power of capital, commodity-value, and the Spectacle. It's not apophasia to say that corporate logos and in fact many artifacts of spectacle function in a similar way to runes did, but in a more monstrous and less fantastical cultural context. think about how the golden arches are a more recognized symbol worldwide than the cross, and represent a sort of global conquest by capital. these symbols function in such a way that implies a sort of corporate guild-paganism. There’s a long lineage of thinkers who grapple with capital and try and understand what makes it: 1). unique, 2). impossible to destroy, 3). have such all-encompassing power. Reducing capital to some simple rational explanation seems to have yielded few results, the best explanation is that it plays the role of a kind of Master-signifier, replacing the Big Other in the symbolic order. Nevertheless, trying to understand capital in a vulgar-materialist sense of something that is simply inert and doesn't have bewitching power yields few results.

>>12793567
very based image
imagine if you could just go buy a needle at a drugstore that would let you die peacefully. such an inhumane system we have that forces people to endure living until theyre willing to use some messy, unreliable and painful method

>>12794142
Based post. So part of what you are saying is that human reality is channeled through our collectively shared symbols, which over time are ingrained in our psyche and mapped to certain emotional and phenomenal responses. The higher the intensity the faster this occurs. Technology amps this process up, and religious symbolism has been usurped over time by the fast and hard spectacle of capital. Like a sea covering the globe with local high density towers beaming out magnetic signals that, as a system, have utterly swallowed any sort of control people once had over its trajectory.

>>12794149
Muricans already have easy access to a gun and maybe one single bullet. I'm pretty jealous of that to be honest.
But then again tying a noose and hanging on a bridge isn't that complicated either.

>Authors such as Nick Land have become popular among online right-wing groups, envisioning a future where governments break down amid technological change.

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>Right-wing groups such as the neo-Nazi forum Iron March espoused the idea of accelerationism, while advocating the mass murder of Jews and non-whites.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/18/accelerationism-belief-followed-new-zealand-terror-attacker-8930673/?ito=article.amp.share.top.twitter

OHNONONONONONO

>>12794283
It's a lot easier to pull a trigger than it is to go through with the whole process of hanging yourself. A gun only takes one moment of suicidal rage and spontaneity.

>>12793567
Why would my mommy euthanize me, though? :(

>>12795608
what a fucking delusional memelord

No accelerationist would ever advocate the slaughter of muslims or jews, because accelerationism has never been concerned with ethnic purity or ethnonationalism. If anything its diametrically opposed to it

>>12795608
>accelerationism means do bad things lel make everything shit
god fucking damnit who ever thought it would be a good idea to tell the brainlets about accelerationism?

>>12795667

Accelerationism is being conflated with the old saying "the worst, the better." Can't say I like this turn of events, but then history has a way of doing things.

>>12793567
No.
>Neo-plagiarism arrives from eternal 1968
>We must imagine the Boomers happy.

>>12795667
Yes, they advocate spouting bullshit on twatter.
>ME FAZD MUMMEEE!!

>>12795718
It's
>gabbidull zo bad id gud
retard.

This picture is such nonsense: Mommy would never euthanize me.

>>12795608
should have called out myatt and those ona guys as well

>>12795949
>should have called out myatt and those ona guys as well

Journalist are a weird bunch. On the one hand, they seem wholly ignorant of contemporary developments, speaking instead of dead, dying, and irrelevant groups like the KKK or NSM, but on the other hand, they never really explore the historical antecedents of the groups they do talk about. When was the last time the National Alliance was mentioned?

>>12795939
This. What rubbish.

>>12795635
you have to aim carefully with the gun, though. and the noose requires some finesse, too: if it's too tight your head pops clean off and if it's too loose you'll slowly and painfully suffocate