The think that marks a genuinely good fiction versus hack fiction is precisely this, and not everyone really even cares. But for hyperstition I think you will need to figure out how to branch out beyond your projections, a difficult task.

For one, I think it does help to start with writing what is autopoeisis, but God help you if you publish it and people like it, because you will be doomed. For my part, the poetry which works best came ‘from somewhere else’. Yeats accounted that some of his poems came from dreams (such as ‘The Cap And Bells’) and as a highly vivid dreamer, I find that I remember a lot and sometimes cannot ‘shake’ a dream until I write it into a poem.

Lovecraft is interesting in this regard because Weird Tales was more or less a hack fiction rag, but yet out of it came very good low brow but nonetheless genuine fiction. That Lovecraft and Howard are getting their acclaim now is typical (look up our friend J.S.Bach) and considering they were ‘hard workers’ and not academic ‘starving artistes’ writing stories about everyone’s secret desire to fornicate, they were quite overlooked.

Would that we could re-create that hermetic formula that turned the lead of ‘pulp’ in the gold of ‘literature’ – perhaps I would throw my hat in that ring too!

Conspiracies do not seem to be splintered enough (or maybe conspiracies that are not focused too hard on something are just too rare). And camouflage/secrecy does not to seem to be the main point behind hyperstition anyway, so talking about it should be fine unless it leads to over-deliberation in hyperstitional constrtuction (right?).

(Incidentally, although my “quality time” only came about via my work in a hospital operating theatre, I’ve seen N2O being dispensed at several all-night raves over the years, with the most recent being only last Saturday. So it’s not entirely unavailable.)

A collectivity that had no aspiration to unity would win unconditional allegiance here (we think), but the way it cross-cuts political codes either makes up a phenomenon (of incandescent rancor) or an occult ‘conspiracy’ — in which case, why are we talking about it?

How does mystic non-self connect to functional artifactual selves? I’ve no doubt the relation exists, but it remains to be demonstrated that we are concerned with a single (and indivisible) topic.