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'Hyperstition: An Introduction' - 0rphan Drift Archive

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Delphi Carstens Interviews Nick Land. In the following interview Nick Land responds to some questions about the mechanisms of Hyperstition in the context of apocalypse. Q1. I wonder if you could elaborate on what exactly is concealed ... what will be revealed by apocalypse? R1. What is concealed (the Occult) is an alien order of time, which betrays itself through ‘coincidences’, ‘synchronicities’ and similar indications of an intelligent arrangement of fate. An example is the cabbalistic pattern occulted in ordinary languages – a pattern that cannot emerge without eroding itself, since the generalized (human) understanding and deliberated usage of letter-clusters as numerical units would shut down the channel of ‘coincidence’ (alien information). It is only because people use words without numerizing them, that they remain open as conduits for something else. To dissolve the screen that hides such things (and by hiding them, enables them to continue), is to fuse with the source of the signal and liquidate the world.

Delphi Carstens Interviews Nick Land. 2009. In the following interview Nick Land responds to some questions about the mechanisms of Hyperstition in the context of apocalypse. Q1. I wonder if you could elaborate on what exactly is concealed … what will be revealed by apocalypse? R1. What is concealed (the Occult) is an alien order of time, which betrays itself through ‘coincidences’, ‘synchronicities’ and similar indications of an intelligent arrangement of fate. An example is the cabbalistic pattern occulted in ordinary languages – a pattern that cannot emerge without eroding itself, sin

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