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Retro Chronomancy: Eschewing the Linear Temporal

Fri, August 31, 11:00am to 12:30pm, ICC, E5.9

Abstract

The immateriality of the notion of “ideas” means there’s no need for the assumption that ideas are bound to materiality which is so wrapped around and prevalent in current theoretical discourse.

Hyperstition, Pigeonhole experiment, Lemurian Time War have challenged our understood notions of a linear temporality–Kant identified that it was instead the way we understand the changes in objects in relation to each other, and Sadie Plant – a key figure of Cyberfeminism – and Manuel de Landa realised, and asserted the need to show that history – and thus time – is nonlinear.

How can we identify the ability for ideas to influence the past? What does this mean for theoretical currents?

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