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Strange As It Seems · Aug 25, 2025 · 3 hr 12 min

How To Invent The Future

Rick and Stephen explore how suppressed or imagined technologies, from Mesmer’s animal magnetism to Tesla’s free energy and Russian Cosmism, illustrate humanity’s recurring drive to uncover secret forces. The discussion ties these examples to Nick Land’s concept of hyperstition, showing how myths and speculative technologies can loop back into reality. FOLLOW US: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7loq8pr... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Podbean: https://strangeasitseems.podbean.com/

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Rick and Stephen explore how suppressed or imagined technologies, from Mesmer’s animal magnetism to Tesla’s free energy and Russian Cosmism, illustrate humanity’s recurring drive to uncover secret forces. The discussion ties these examples to Nick Land’s concept of hyperstition, showing how myths and speculative technologies can loop back into reality.

 

FOLLOW US:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7loq8pr...

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Podbean: https://strangeasitseems.podbean.com/

 

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