What if philosophy could hack the future before it happens?
A film on time and narrative by Christopher Roth with Armen Avanessian. Hyperstitional thinking hijacks the present-forming daring interventions into conditions of cybernetic governance that foreclose contingency.
Writing
Nick Land's unhinged charisma carrying half the runtime
Direction
DIY aesthetics making high theory feel like found footage
Director
Armen Avanessian
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hyperstition emerged from the 1990s Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at Warwick University, where academic rigor collided with occult practice and amphetamines.
The film's very existence—philosophers playing themselves in staged scenarios—blurs documentary and fiction in ways that embody its subject. Roth and Avanessian are essentially performing hyperstition about hyperstition.
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