In 1996, Grant Morrison nearly died from a staph infection that mirrored what they'd written happening to their comic book character months earlier. Collapsed lung. Face being destroyed. Two days to live.Their explanation? The comic was a spell. And they'd forgotten to write themselves out.This is the story of the hypersigil—a technology for editing reality using fiction as the interface. How Morrison built a six-year magical operation disguised as a comic book called The Invisibles. What it cost them. And the question you should probably be asking: are you already inside one?
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The stories you repeat start repeating in you.
0:00 — Writing Fiction That Writes Back
0:54 — The Origin of Sigils and Chaos Magic
2:04 — How Sigils Bypass the Conscious Mind
3:29 — The Limitation of Single-Use Magic
3:46 — The Birth of the Hyper-Sigil
4:00 — The Invisibles as a Magical Experiment
4:49 — Becoming the Character: The Fiction Suit
5:54 — Turning Readers Into Participants
6:08 — The Wankathon and Collective Sigil Charging
6:52 — Writing Torture Into the Story
7:26 — When Fiction Became Physical Reality
8:01 — Writing Himself Out of Death
8:47 — Three Explanations for Why This Worked
10:36 — Collective Attention as Reality Fuel
11:06 — William S. Burroughs and Cut-Up Reality
12:12 — Philip K. Dick and Information From Elsewhere
13:05 — Alan Moore, Gods, and Idea Space
14:06 — Slenderman and Industrial-Scale Hyper-Sigils
15:21 — The Attention Economy as Magic System
16:06 — Auditing the Stories Running Your Life
16:46 — Withdrawing Attention From Bad Narratives
17:22 — How to Build Your Own Hyper-Sigil
18:09 — The Final Question: What Story Are You Living?
SOURCES & FURTHER READING:
Grant Morrison - "Pop Magic!" (Book of Lies, 2003)
Grant Morrison - The Invisibles (1994-2000)
Grant Morrison - Supergods (2011)
Austin Osman Spare - The Book of Pleasure (1913)
Disinfo Convention Speech (2000)
Arthur Magazine Interview
William S. Burroughs - The Adding Machine
Philip K. Dick - The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
Alan Moore - The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic
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