Let's talk about sorcery - that is, practical sorcery 2026 - together with the concept of 'hyperstition' and why these things are important. I think they’re significant because most 'practical sorcery' today is being done *to* people not *by* them. And it’s being done by corporations, platforms and ideologies that understand their mechanics far better than users do.
A🧵 2. First of all though, let’s look at ‘hyperstition’. What is it & where does it come from? Well, the term itself (a portmanteau of hyper + superstition) was coined in the mid-1990s by the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) an extraordinary (and rogue) collective of students and academics based at the University of Warwick.

1. Is it just me or has 2025 collided with 500 BC? What am I getting at here? Well, let me first take you back to COVID, then jump to the last week or so stopping off at a thread I posted a month ago. Bear with me - I'll get where I'm going eventually. (TL;DR: I'm wondering if the gods have come back). 🧵 2: Remember COVID? The sheer weirdness of it all? Global lockstep, reality fracturing along ideological lines. And then there was @naomirwolf - Clinton advisor, best-selling Establishment feminist - suddenly talking about demons. naomiwolf.substack.com/p/metaphysical…

🧵Recently I posted a thread about the global techno-capitalist system currently devouring the world whole. 2/ I argued this system is the most intelligent entity Earth has ever produced, operating through a single commandment: 'More of me, forever, by any means necessary' accomplished via ten brutal fitness axioms:

https://x.com/feedfracture/status/1994705265787277533?s=20

Was as never my intention to get so mired in the ‘trans’ thing as I seem to have gotten, but anyway, a few more thoughts on the ‘gender debate’ in the wake of recent developments (Girl Guides, Women’s Institute etc. along with my argument on the 11th Hour Blog that these remain skirmishes rather than significant victories). My issue is this. People think the fight is a ‘legislative’ and/or semantic one - about rights, language and institutions. But the real battle I think is imaginative. 2. For the best part of 25 years (maybe longer) one side (often backed up with technological innovation) has offered what is for some a seductive total future - a vision where bodies are mutable and infinitely editable. Opponents meanwhile – what could be described as ‘pro-embodiment thinkers’ who believe sex, material limits, and human morphology have sanctity and meaning - have mostly offered restraints rather than a counter-horizon, making their case one of negation, not imagination. But IMHO, until pro-embodiment thinkers articulate a meaningful future, they’ll never win the culture war they’re currently engaged in.

1. Following my recent thread speculating about whether we’re in (or entering) an apocalypse (linked) and with a HUGE nod to the ever-brilliant CJ Hopkins ( @CJHopkins_Z23 ), I’ve been giving thought to the nature of the global/techno-capitalist system, currently devouring the world whole.

https://x.com/feedfracture/status/1991634797802995825?s=20

2. Its purpose seems tautological, its invariant goal the perpetual self-expansion of total control over all resources - human, natural, informational, biological, and cognitive - in order to secure the frictionless continuation of its own expansion. Completely cybernetic, it’s also immeasurably intelligent. (Systems theory would describe this invariant function (or goal) as something like ‘an autopoietic, far-from-equilibrium process whose only terminal value is its own continued autopoiesis at ever-larger scales’). In plain language, it’s a machine whose commandment is: ‘More of me, forever, by any means necessary.’

So-called ‘gender criticals’ are currently melting down over the ‘recently announced’ puberty-blocker trial for kids as young as 10. I get why to many it looks grim. But let’s not forget these same people spent 18 months treating the Cass Review like Holy Writ when the aforesaid trial is literally Cass Recommendation 5. Indeed, the only individual I could immediately see who’d railed against it previously was @Con_Tomlinson who wrote a well thought out piece back in March (linked). So, kinda struggling to see how people can one minute coronate a supposedly ‘gold-standard’ Report and then the next scream when it’s actually implemented. That said, I also think we’re missing a far bigger and massively important picture… 🧵
courage.media/2025/03/25/bri… 2. What am I getting at? Well, in terms of Cass and the trial, I don’t think the important issue is one of hypocrisy (though hypocrisy there certainly is). No, I think the deeper mistake is the fantasy that Cass (and other so-called ‘victories’ seen along the way) are ‘kill-switches’ that will eventually rewind us to a pre-2015 normality. I simply don’t think that’s true. I think that ship sailed ages ago. Things like the Yogyakarta Principles together with an entire generation raised on social media mean ‘identity’ has become performative and infinitely editable. Remember, this drift has been running for two decades.

🧵Been down a few rabbit holes lately which have gotten me wondering if we’re not living through an actual Apocalypse (in the literal sense of the word meaning 'uncovering' or 'tearing the veil'). Like, zooming out, what have we got? Gender boundaries blurring, political systems convulsing, UFOs/UAPs & other anomalies back in respectable discourse, fractured shared realities, scientists telling us space-time is just a user interface. It's a lot, and kinda hard to shake the sense that something in the ontology's slipping. Here are a few thoughts.... 2. Could just be me of course, but right now I’m of the opinion something in the way ‘reality’ presents itself is behaving very oddly indeed. Maybe a phase transition (in the noosphere and everyday world) where the membrane between symbol, matter, and whatever-we-call-the-daemonic is starting to get thinner and thinner? And yes, in case you hadn’t noticed, people have been talking about demons *a lot* lately…