Inspired by k punk - a first stab at a hyperstition best of list (just in alphabetical order for now)
(actually hyperstition doesn't lend itself to this because it is depersonalizing and always taken up by complex lineages, but never mind... )
Madame Blavatsky (for showing the zone of perfect coincidence between hoaxes and religions - table-tapping faker, 'inventor' of the Secret Doctrine, the Tibetan masters and Theosophy)
William Burroughs (for fiction as magical war, time-travel implexion and Lemur-obsession)
Carlos Castaneda (for inventing artificial anthropology and dis/belief in Don Juan)
John Carpenter (for Sutter Cane -'I thought I was making it up but all the time they were telling me what to write' and 'The Thing', which has to exist, even though it's a fiction)
Aleister Crowley (for 'rediscovering' the history of magick, 'reinventing' the tarot and the very idea of the Book of Lies)
Deleuze and Guattari (for reanimating Professor Challenger as schizogeologist, blind doubles, numbering numbers and being 'aided, assisted and multiplied')
Drexicya (for 'marine mutation in the Black Atlantic' and 'fictionalizing frequencies')
L Ron Hubbard (for the preposterous incredibility of a science fiction writer happening to receive a B-movie sci-fi religious revelation)
William Gibson (for 'making up' cyberspace)
HP Lovecraft (for the Cthulhu mythos and the Necronomican)
Ronald Reagan (or is it Bush 41? for voodoo economics)
Jacques Vallee (for applying unbelief to the UFO/alien mythos)
Edward Yardeni (for making Y2K hysteria mainstream)
Honorable mentions
Walter Cannon (for Voodoo Death)
Kenneth Grant (for taking Lovecraft seriously)
Alan Greenspan (for irrational exuberance and the new economy)
Philip L Sclater (for giving Lemuria its name)
Whitley Streiber (for the templex relation between writing pulp horror and being abducted aliens)
Thanks Anna.
Also:
1. Abdallah Ibn Maymun, the Persian occultist who had so much influence on ISMAILIS (like Hasan-i-Sabah but in another direction and away from his harsh politico-militaristic procedures) [for investigating how WAR generates hyperstitional processes contributing to irreversible dissolution of the State, and perceiving hyperstition as an autonomous war(w/f)are]
2. Al Buni [for his extensive and pioneering inter-cultural studies on numeracy as the underlying power grid of belief, magic and occult]
3. The Z. Crowd (well-known to Nick) an operation codename for a schizo-singularity (sometimes encrypted as Zoroaster, Zahak, Z...) strategically sabotaging the nucleus of monotheism and overrunning its lineage via a twisted and densely clouded line of hyperstition.
Great enthusiasm in Shanghai (no doubt elsewhere) to hear more about these dudes.
Posted by: Nick at June 29, 2004 01:50 AMal-Buni Manuscripts 1 & 2 written in Koufa about 900 Hijri are published on the above URL.
www.arabic-magic.com Original.
Kinds Regards
Posted by: James at March 25, 2006 02:51 AMal-Buni Manuscripts 1 & 2 written in Koufa about 900 Hijri are published on the above URL.
www.arabic-magic.com Original.
Kinds Regards
Posted by: James at March 25, 2006 02:52 AM