The term hyperstition was coined by Warwick University’s Cybernetic Cultural Research Unit (CCRU) and continues to be one of the major concepts of the Accelerationist movement. A portmanteau of ‘hyper’ and ‘superstition’, drawing on the Bau…Auerbach, D (2014) The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time. Available (01.03.2020) at: https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/rokos-basilisk-the-most-terrifying-thought-experimentof-all-time.html
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Alex Williams
philosopher · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Alex Williams co-founded the Cybernetic Cultural Research Unit at Warwick and developed the concept of hyperstition—a portmanteau blending hyperreality and superstition—that became central to accelerationist thought. The course uses Williams's framework to explore how fictional technologies and narratives can retroactively become real through belief and infrastructure, tracing the relationship between speculative thought and material consequence in AI cultures. His work appears here primarily through the genealogy of accelerationism and as a conceptual bridge between cybernetic theory and contemporary tech-pessimism.
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