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Hyperstition
01 — THE CONCEPT
A deliberate methodology for envisioning and enacting radical futures.
"The very existence of an idea generates the activity and resources that bring it into being."
Hyperstitions are "fictions that make themselves real": ideas, narratives, or cultural artefacts that —by virtue of being believed and acted upon— generate the very conditions for their own realization.
02 — ABDUCTION
The future pulls the present towards itself
Once a narrative gets encoded into media, markets, or technical systems, the hyperstition becomes structurally embedded, and no longer depends on any single person believing it.
Hyperstition orients without fixing a destination: the vision pulls toward a direction even as that destination remains in the making.
Hyperstition is the deliberate construction of a future so vivid and compelling that it exerts a gravitational pull on present-day actions, resources, and imagination.
Hyperstition is a form of magic
An incantation capable of bringing about futures that would not be conceivable from purely deductive logic — using the force of narrative, collective belief, and coordinated action to shift the boundary between what is and what could be.
This is a collective effort: people who share similar values coming together to conceive the narratives that will, in turn, enlist them in bringing those narratives to life.
"Hyperstitioning" is both a creative and political act: it retroactively reshapes the interpretation of the past, restructures the priorities of the present, and opens a pathway toward a future that did not previously exist.
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