Hyperstition

CCRU concept: fictions that make themselves real through cultural circulation. The Singularity narrative is the ultimate hyperstition — a fiction about AI transcendence driving $100 billion+ in funding toward building the infrastructure regardless of whether transcendence is possible. VC hype cycles, the bot-dominated internet, meme coins — all hyperstitions. The concept explains how ideology becomes material force. [Seam: Aligned-To-Whom? The exemption is where a fiction (the announced rule) is made materially binding while its negation operates — perception bound to reality by a written carve-out.] Gibson's cyberspace ('consensual hallucination') + Baudrillard's precession = fictions that pre-format the real. Reading (b). [Report #101: Apex Pyramid Literary/Philosophical Lenses, May 24 2026]