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Aliveness — The Idealists Collective

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At ASPR (a rat-camp in Taiwan), one of the participants, Uzay had a liking for aggressively spreading a meme, leading to small but growing groups of people mutually hyping each other up and chanting "Get real!", as the positive feedback loop created a bundle of extreme liveliness. This is one way of making people more real. But what does it mean for someone to "get real"? Nick Land, the creator of concepts such as "hyperstition" or "speculative realism", sees AGI as creating itself, reaching from the future and using capitalism to assemble itself through the present. This can easily be discredited as continental blabbering with no epistemic value, merely trying to shuffle concepts for the sole purpose of "cybergothic" aesthetics. But - entertaining this view of retrochronic (self)-creation, one can, I think, explain what it means to Get Real. The reason Land sees retrochronicity in capitalist technological progress is the apparent "creation of negentropy", such that without a cue of th

Act of Attentiveness — Sarah McCann The potato reaches out its eyes towards the light spilt under the pantry swing. Evolution works from desire. Begging down the street at dawn. As any monk. Getting Real and staying Alive At ASPR (a camp in Taiwan), one of the participants, Uzay had a liking for passionately spreading a meme, that led to small but growing groups of people mutually hyping each other up and chanting " Get real! ", as the positive feedback loop created a bundle of extreme liveliness. This is one way of making people more real. But what does it mean for someone to "get real"? Nick

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