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"Blackmore radicalizes the meme concept introduced by Dawkins, proposing that memetic selection — not genetic selection — is the true engine behind the emergence of consciousness, language, and the sense of self. In this reading, the human being is less an agent choosing which ideas to spread and more a vehicle optimized by the memes' own evolution for their own replication. The link to the archive's hyperstitional apparatus is direct: if an idea propagates regardless of any benefit to its host — indeed, precisely because it is "good" at replicating — then hyperstition, the egregore, and meme magick are not metaphors but special cases of the same Darwinian mechanism described here in scientific rather than occult or theoretical terms."

"A University of Minnesota team has built the world's first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle — energy use, growth, reproduction — assembled entirely from nonliving chemical components, opening a new frontier in biological engineering."

"An epistemological introduction to Kodwo Eshun's "sonic fiction": how sound systems generate ideas, recompose politics, and act as collective transducers, read through Michel Serres' anthropology of the senses."

"An essay by Ray Brassier entwining truth and negativity, continuing his transcendental realist project after Nihil Unbound. It explores how every appearance has a kind of reality only insofar as it is split from what it does not reveal — a core move in his neo-rationalism."

"A theoretical inquiry into how cybernetic paradigms of control and feedback have become the hidden grammar of contemporary digital governance — from algorithmic platforms to data governance."

"Korecki and Carissimo argue the Data Centre — not disembodiment — is AI's real body: both a biological organism and part of Capital's labouring body. The paper shows how AI pricing reveals the value of intelligence across the organism-mechanism divide."

"An essay treating AI as an autonomous economic actor reshaping markets, labor and power. It builds a theoretical frame spanning digital economics, philosophy and cognitive capitalism, drawing on contributions from over 70 academic and industry experts."

"The model's hallucination is not a calculation error — it is the geology of the new latent space, deciding what can be seen, said, and known of the past."

"Five years after the original theory, eleven authors map the collective retreat into newsletters, Slack channels and non-indexed spaces: the public web as hostile territory to flee from."

"Crypto hyperfinancialization as pure hyperstition: collective confidence, repeated and projected into the future, becomes the very value it claims only to measure."

"Infrasound as weapon and as aesthetic: frequencies below the threshold of hearing acting directly on the body, before they ever become "music.""

"sensors — rewriting planetary geopolitics as an infrastructure of extraction and calculation."

"In June 2026 humans became a minority on the web they built: bots now generate over 57% of page requests."

"Behind the techno-utopian dream of the Singularity hides a disguised theology: AGI as the new god to turn to, for those who stopped believing in the old one."

"Behind the language of digital supremacy in the AI race hides the privatization of state surveillance, disguised as technological destiny."

"Remote work dislocates not just space but time itself: sleep becomes the last resource not yet fully colonized by value extraction."

"Future African archaeologists dig through the ruins of our present: science fiction was never about the future, but the retroactive engineering of what we call "now.""