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Hyperstition is a key concept in the philosophy of Nick Land. It refers to fictions which, given enough time and libidinal investment, become realities. JF and Phil explore the notion using one of those optometric apparatuses with multiple lenses -- deleuzian, magical, mythological, political, ethical, etc. The goal isn't to understand how fictions participate in reality (that'll have to wait for another episode), but to ponder what this implies for a sapient species. The conversation weaves together such varied topics as Twin Peaks: The Return, Internet meme magic (Trump as tulpa!), Deleuze and Guattari's metaphysics, occult experiments in spirit creation, the Brothers Grimm, and the phantasmic overtones of The Communist Manifesto. In the end we can only say, "What a load of bullsh*t!"

Header Image: Still from the 1920 German Expressionist film The Golem: How He Came in the World, by Paul Wegener.

REFERENCES

JF's notes on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the refrain
\nGilles Deleuze and F\xe9lix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
\nDavid Lynch (director), Twin Peaks: The Return
\nPhil Ford, "Garmonbozia" (work in progress, unpublished)
\nDelphi Carstens, "Hyperstition"
\nDelphi Carstens, "Hyperstition: An Introduction" (2009 interview with Nick Land)
\nRichard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
\nCCRU Archives
\nThe occult concept of the egregore
\nWilliam Irwin Thompson, Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science
\nMartin Heidegger, Being and Time
\nAlan Chapman and Duncan Barford, The Blood of the Saints
\nA. T. L. Carver, "The Truth About Pepe the Frog and the Cult of Kek"
\nPaul Spencer, "Trump's Occult Online Supporters Believer 'Meme Magic' Got Him Elected"
\nColm A. Kelleher, The Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah
\nKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
\nG. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
\nSun Ra, Space is the Place