Published December 2021 | Version v1
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The Hegemony of Hyperstition: Notes on Creation and Horror

  • 1. University of Chicago

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Through a series of interconnected theoretical and creative vignettes, this dissertation explores the philosophy of Hawaiian Nietzscheanism. It also addresses various issues of hyperstition, including extended analyses of both theory and praxis. Finally, attempts are made to address the concept of theory-fiction and Cosmic Situationism, the last of which grounds itself in a critique of Badiou, Meillassoux, Brassier, among others, and works to overcome the issues of speculative materialist philosophies by posing a speculative irrealism for counterfactual worlds and beings. An analysis of modes of infinitude in Spinoza and ZFC set theory provide a framework for suspending the law of non-contradiction within the Hyper-Chaos of the Real posed by Meillassoux, with particular emphasis placed on Kant's categories and Hegel generally. A final section addresses the problem of inhumanism in terms of psychoanalysis. A sequence of notes to an unknown whole, this dissertation points towards the work to come, on Karkosa, Thellia, and St. Snomis' Works of Hate.

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Divinity School, Arts & Humanities Division
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Comparative Literature, Divinity School Dissertations