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Golden Age of Hollywood Book Club — 448 members — last activity 2 hours, 14 min ago
This reading group is for lovers of classic Hollywood. We discuss the films, crews, actors, designers, and books that cover the Golden Age of Tinsel ...more

Hyperstition — 7 members — last activity Dec 15, 2009 01:52PM
Useful distinctions from the Hyperstition Blog: One difference is that superstitions don't necesarily involve a becoming-real. It's true that superst Useful distinctions from the Hyperstition Blog: One difference is that superstitions don't necesarily involve a becoming-real. It's true that superstitional beliefs can have some impact upon the real. We can all easily produce numerous examples of this, no doubt: the sportswoman who performs better when she wears her lucky charm, the student who excels himself in an exam because it falls on a date he believes is his lucky day. Yet this is not always the case with superstitions. There are plenty of superstitional beliefs to which their adherents stubbornly adhere in spite of all manner of countervailing evidence. Another reason why superstitions fall short of hyperstition, even when they 'come true', is that they fail to decode the relationship between belief and reality in the way that hyperstition always does. A crucial dimension of hyperstition is an appreciation of the hyperstitional process itself. The superstitious attribute their successes or failures to their fidelity to a talisman or a ritual (Freud was surely right that there is a strong relationship between the behaviours of obsessional neurotics and those of the religious, or superstitious, believer; in observing a ritual, the superstitious person is effectively propiating a god). One way of illustrating this difference is by thinking about economics. Bush was wrong to consider 'voodoo economics' a particular abberational type of economics. Rather, economics is essentially voodoo: i.e. a sorcerous practice for producing changes in the real. The whole of Baudrillardian postmodernity falls under the aegis of hyperstition. A cursory survey of the capitalist economy reveals that beliefs, fears, hopes, anticipations and potentials are immediately effective. Gibson's term, 'consensual hallucination', is as appropriate for capital as it was for the cyberspace for which he coined it. Similarly, Deleuze-Guattari's multiply evocative term 'fictional quantities' gives us some valuable hints about the essentially hyperstitional character of capital. ...more

The BURIED Book Club — 965 members — last activity Feb 27, 2026 06:22PM
TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.

Literary Horror — 2151 members — last activity Sep 03, 2026 10:12AM
A group for fans of literary horror. We will be discussing all things horrible and literary but especially those horrible volumes that either aspire t ...more

The GR Mixtape exchange service — 167 members — last activity Nov 27, 2020 04:55PM
For those of you who wonder, as I do, if similar taste in books can translate to similar taste in music... This group is for posting mixtapes in a mo ...more

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