According to Piney legend, the village of Ong's Hat was founded sometime in the 19th century when a man named Ong threw his hat up in the air, landed it in a tree and was unable to retrieve it (we like to think it vanished into another worl…But this time, we believe, the affair will go differently--because this time the journey outward can only be made simultaneously with the journey inward--and because this bootstrap-trick can only be attained by a consciousness which, to a s…
Ong
historical · 2 mentions across 1 reading
In this course
Ong appears primarily as a folkloric figure in the Piney legend of Ong's Hat, a mythical New Jersey village whose founding story involves a hat vanishing into another world—a narrative that anchors discussions of dimensional portals and liminal spaces in the course's exploration of how speculative folklore intersects with cybernetic and consciousness-expansion theory. The readings use Ong's Hat as a poetic frame for bootstrapping consciousness and the simultaneous inward-outward journey, suggesting how marginal or lost places function as conceptual tools for theorizing recursive self-transformation and non-linear temporality in AI and technological culture.
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