Cultivating Hyperstitions
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Cultivating Hyperstitions
exploring alternate realities reveals the interlocking contingencies of the status quo, speculative stories may prove useful not just to those imagining the future, but those who seek to invent it.
Eliot Peper • The Possibility Engine
Hyperstition is a term that describes a cultural belief or idea that becomes a reality through its own existence and spread.
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this piece is about belief magic, which Merriam-Webster defines as “the use of means (such as charms or spells) believed to have supernatural power over natural forces” and especially how belief magic is represented in culture. After all, culture, from films to books to art, has always shaped society, just as we shape it.
Medium • Magic, belief systems + web3
a more compelling way of looking at “archetypal” phenomena like Jung’s synchronicity too. If materially encoded cultural symbols exert some of their causative force or power backwards, through social actors’ unconscious precognitive engagement with them, it would help explain why the universe often seems pre-saturated with meanings that, upon
... See moreEric Wargo • Time Loops
The future arrives via ideas, not inevitabilities. Fiction lets us model those ideas in context — social, material, emotional — before they materialize. Strategy, then, is fiction with consequences.