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Deep Media Fiction Essay --- Germán Sierra Numéro Cinq
A myth-science text that binds narrative, occult patterning, and speculative systems thinking into a theory of causal fiction.
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Core idea
Myth-science treats narrative not as a primitive residue to be explained away, but as a technical component of world-making. Hyperstition here is a way of engineering carriers, myths, and signals that operate across time.
The texts work by mixing definitional argument with occult or cosmological language, allowing fiction to function as a heuristic, diagram, or practical engine of manifestation.
That matters because myth-science preserves the archive's refusal to separate rational procedure from speculative narrative. It is one of the clearest routes into how fiction can become operative.
How to read this text
Read for the points where myth stops being mere imagery and becomes procedural. That is usually where the argument sharpens.
Track how narrative, cartography, and belief are displaced by loops, carriers, and practical fiction-making.
Representative extracts
History · paragraph 11
Deep Media Fiction | Essay --- Germán Sierra | Numéro Cinq http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2016/01/04/deep-media-fiction-essay-german-sierra/[4/8/2023 10:14:14 AM] We cannot allow the literary evocation to swear an allegiance with the totalitarian mythologies of being; rather, those who would initiate the chaotic event must become carriers of an infinite risk.
History · paragraph 9
Deep Media Fiction | Essay --- Germán Sierra | Numéro Cinq http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2016/01/04/deep-media-fiction-essay-german-sierra/[4/8/2023 10:14:14 AM] contextual non-predictive systems that are able to approach the limits of the human cognitive morphospace. It’s not a bet about a possible future (a propensity, potentiality or probability game), but a multiplicity of gestures about an unknowable present (multiple experimental presents).
History · paragraph 18
Deep Media Fiction | Essay --- Germán Sierra | Numéro Cinq http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2016/01/04/deep-media-fiction-essay-german-sierra/[4/8/2023 10:14:14 AM] animals.” Galloway, Excommunication, 63.↵ 11. E. Ayache, The Blank Swan: The End of Probability (Wiley, 2010), Kindle 112.
History · paragraph 25
Deep Media Fiction | Essay --- Germán Sierra | Numéro Cinq http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2016/01/04/deep-media-fiction-essay-german-sierra/[4/8/2023 10:14:14 AM] © 2010-20 Numéro Cinq Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha The Fine Print The NC discussions are open to anyone.
History · paragraph 24
Deep Media Fiction | Essay --- Germán Sierra | Numéro Cinq http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2016/01/04/deep-media-fiction-essay-german-sierra/[4/8/2023 10:14:14 AM] through—its own operationality.” FF, Kindle 736.↵ 50. http://okhaos.com/plantoid/↵ 51. “In this way, interpretation, like alchemy, must be traitorous. It must be conceived as an act of treason against the world, for to draw texts into a comparative encounter is nothing less than to set the stage for their radical betrayal.
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.