hyperreal religion

Transmission #3 of the Cosmic Anthropology Broadcast System: A Chat With Cat Vincent On All Things Hyperreal

A Chat With Ian ‘Cat’ Vincent [catvincent.com | catvincent | @catvincent ] on all things Hyperreal. Cat is a regular columnist at Spiral Nature (a series called ‘The Hype’) a contributing editor to The Daily Grail, and has been published in three volumes of their Fortean journal Darklore. Cat has also been published three times in the Fortean […]

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We clothe ourselves in self-defined logos because they are sigils. We make the same faces in our selfies because they are gestures. We 3D print or otherwise obtain the same icons, relics, and holy books because these objects are animate, the small everyday gods of the thin DIY religion that holds it all together for us.

Priestess of the Future Weird
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“How ironic it would be to witness the somber rituals of a Spider-Man cult in 2540 A.D. – or to be present at the "strength olympics” held in honor of the Hulk. New myths created in the twentieth century, and scattered by the printing press throughout the world, may well enlarge the giant puzzle that is humanity and make things much more difficult to decipher.“

Jack Kirby writing in the back pages of The Eternals.

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If you’re going to be worried every time the universe doesn’t make sense, you’re going to be worried every moment of every day for the rest of your natural life.

A reading from one of the holiest of metafictional texts.

(Book of) G’Kar // Babylon 5 // “Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?”
(via fuckyeahb5)

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