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• Uncertainty and the Impure @ CHROMINANCE, Res. 2018

        Murray Shanahan (from DeepMind) invented the term ‘conscious exotica’ for ‘high-level intelligences...

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• THE THINGS THAT KNOWLEDGE CANNOT EAT

  A transcript of the talk I gave at Goldsmiths College for the Visual Cultures Fiction...

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• Hyperstition. Tedx Talk by Delphi Carstens. Video by Mer (Maggie) Roberts, 0rphan Drift

    Capetown held a very successful series of Tedx Talks in 2012, which are all...

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• Cyberpositive

  When 0D told us that they had decided to let Cyberpositive in, we nodded and laughed like innocent fools. Some of us even tried to help them. Over the months that followed, it gathered beyond the screens, retooling 0D to its senseless purpose. They were gone, utterly, but perhaps not irreparably. In any case, we spoke to them almost as before, although now it was scanning us.

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• 0(rphan)d(rift>) Cyberpositive

  Cyberpositive begins as a text collage to an installation by the multimedia art collective 0rphan Drift at the Cabinet Gallery in 1994. The insistent signal that became Cyberpositive transforms into an anomaly from the unknown, unequivocally in control of its own arrival and composition.

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• Turbulent Oceans and Evolutionary Fever Dreams

  Mer met the journalist and cultural critic Tony Marcus, when he reviewed the first 0rphan Drift show at the Cabinet Gallery in London in 1994. The depth and sensitivity of his thinking never ceases to astound. He has been writing various artists' texts over the past few years, and now this interview.

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• ‘Hyperstition: An Introduction’. 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.

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• The Image as unit of contagion

  Delphi Carstens met Mer on the street in Capetown a decade ago, him clutching a copy of Deleuze and Guattari's 'A Thousand Plateaus' under his arm. Since then they have collaborated on several major journal articles, video projects and most currently, researching his phd on the hyperstitions that are manifesting apocalypse. His essay on Mer's current work coincides with the 4th chapter of his phd, which addresses the role of 0rphan Drift and CCRU as 'renegade academics' and speculative futurists.

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• Hyperstition

  As Capetown's main science fictional theorist, Delphi Carstens is spliced into the writings of Nick Land and the CCRU. This text is the core of his current phd which maps the application of hyperstitional navigation to contemporary culture. It highlights many of the themes in the current work of Mer Roberts.

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• Hybridity

  Frieze, Issue 133, September 2010.
  In the 'State of the Art' editorial, Jörg Heiser describes a phenomenon he has provisionally called 'super-hybridity'. Hito Steyerl characterizes super-hybridity as 'Immersion, entanglement, affectivity, sudden rupture and repeated breakdown'; Ronald Jones compares it to transdisciplinarity; Seth Price wonders whether it is about the effect of digital production tools; Nina Power warns against its neo-Romantic vision.

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