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Coincidence Engineering A review of CCRU Writings 1997-2003 - TripleAmpersand Journal (&&&)TripleAmpersand Journal (&&&)
A review of the CCRU writings collection that reads the archive as a set of time-travel devices organized around hyperstition, number, and unbelief.
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Core idea
The review argues that CCRU writing should not be approached as a normal chronological collection. Instead, it presents the compilation as an opening of channels through which hyperstition, numogrammatics, and theory-fiction continue to operate.
Review becomes conceptual navigation. The piece moves from book commentary to an account of time loops, sigils, and the ethics of unbelief, turning criticism into a way of reactivating the archive's machinery.
This matters because it models a strong way of reading the collected writings after the fact. It shows how hyperstition survives in reception as a practice of activated rereading rather than detached summary.
How to read this text
Begin with the review's refusal of simple chronology, then follow the passages on time-travel devices, number, and unbelief.
Treat it as a reader's guide as much as a review. Its real value lies in how it teaches the archive to be navigated.
Representative extracts
Mechanism · paragraph 2
Soundtracked by the rhythmic intensity of ‘90s jungle and Detroit techno, while transfixed by the autocatalytic return of the Old Ones, the runaway processes of positive feedback (not to mention the seminars of one Professor Challenger), by all accounts the Ccru became irrevocably entangled in an as yet unresolved mesh of fact and fiction.
History · paragraph 1
July 24, 2015 Coincidence Engineering: A review of CCRU: Writings 1997- 2003 Chris Shambaugh / Topics CCRU Hyperstition Reviews As the consequence of a full century’s research into dynamic models, the significance of prime numbers, Lemurian ethnography, and hyperbolic horror, the recent publication of compiled writings from the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit was certainly unexpected.
History · paragraph 5
At the end of the day (referred to here as the beginning), please be aware that by reading this book you are doing so at your own risk. Ccru: Writings 1997-2003 Time Spiral Press May 6th, 2015 430pp., $6.99 (ebook) ASIN: B00X96VLF0 © 2023 &&& Journal | The New Centre for Research & Practice
History · paragraph 5
Ccru: Writings 1997-2003 Time Spiral Press May 6th, 2015 430pp., $6.99 (ebook) ASIN: B00X96VLF0 © 2023 &&& Journal | The New Centre for Research & Practice
History · paragraph 2
peculiarly Gregorian sequence ‘1997-2003’ does not exactly align with more nonlinear accounts of the unit’s activity delivered elsewhere. Furthermore, since the Ccru conceived time as something that (unlike an arrow) always feeds back into itself, the chronological positioning of this work by Time Spiral Press shouldn’t necessarily indicate any ordinary interval, but might be better rendered as the opening of a channel – inviting readers to engage these writings as the time- traveling devices that they are.
Appears in sections
Hyperstition and Fiction-Making Primary section
The archive's central model of fiction as causal force, feedback loop, and world-making process.