hyperstition

Found in the wild

noun found in the wild

hy·per·STI·tion

As first written
hypersticiously
The original, by Found in the wild. The headword above is where it settled — the intention was here first.

Fictions that make themselves real; an idea that, once circulating, functions causally to bring about the conditions it describes.

I am the Director of Reality.

EtymologyCoined by the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, Warwick, 1990s). Superstitio is super + stare, 'to stand over' — there is no morpheme -stition. The seam was sliced wrong, the fragment reused, and the prefix swapped. Adverb: hyperstitiously, with a t.

NoteSelf-demonstrating at maximum depth: a word about fictions becoming real by circulating, which became real by circulating, formed by the mechanism it names. It also names what the founding image was doing — PlanetaryCouncil.org, an authority existing because someone typed it.

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Documented uses outside this project.

2026-08 · Poster, Director of Reality

Title card reading HYPERSTICIOUSLY over the CCRU definition.

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