Description
What has become apparent in the past years is that reality is fiction. There’s no way around it. This proposition has been made many times before—by renowned philosophers, no less—but the truth of it has turned into something fundamentally different. Fictions are not something coming from us; they are emergent phenomena of the virtual spaces we occupy—spaces within which a new systematization of the real takes shape. Šum’s Unreality Mode explores this terrain.
Mikkel Rørbo joins us in Ljubljana to discuss operative fiction as a force, a method,
and a practice, providing a conceptual grammar for what is going on. Drawing on Peirce, cybernetics, and machine learning, Rørbo focuses in his text for Šum on abductive inference— the logic of the guess to unpack the hyperstitional mechanics, reality-production and desire.
Unreality Mode is out at year’s turn. Join us for a pre-release event and get your hands on the first copies of Volume I on Saturday 20th December at 18:00 at Aksioma Project Space.
