Belief can actively construct the future it anticipates

Evidence

Kodwo Eshun, via email: “the emotional contagion of the No vote is incalculable, i.e. a different logic of calculation and futurity”. The Winter Years are ending, and summer is coming… A hyperstitional spiral: the more we believe it, the more we can make it happen, the more we make it happen, the more we believe it… — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1967

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the concept of a ‘hyperstitional spiral’ — a feedback loop where belief generates the reality that justifies the belief.
• XREF: Connects to similar concepts in the knowledge base: performativity of economic theory (financial derivatives market), and the feedback of belief and outcome seen in social capital and reputation trust work. — connects to: Absolute Knowledge is metamorphosis that shapes individuals’ expectations of the future; Belief in a better future can be as real as material work. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1215; A freely-made promise transforms uncertainty into fact by willing a future into being — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1035 (+4 more)
• SEED: Potential angle: applying the hyperstitional spiral to institutional decline or to activism strategy as a counterpart to capitalist realism.

Broader Connections

• A freely-made promise transforms uncertainty into fact by willing a future into being #exemplifies (0.88) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1035
• Belief in a better future can be as real as material work. #corroborates (0.85) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1215
• God as transcendental imagination is a temporalizing instance opening an absolute future #exemplifies (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 896
• Absolute Knowledge is metamorphosis that shapes individuals’ expectations of the future #expands (0.78)
• Absolute Knowledge is metamorphic, not static, and keeps forming individuals’ futures #expands (0.76) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 927
• A future-oriented unconscious drives creation forward into the not-yet-existent #expands (0.74)
• The speculative imagination keeps the future open to change by collectively owning its indeterminacy #qualifies (0.72) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 249