Miroslav Griško, Maks Valenčič

Intro

Before the World Believes

Cult is a pejorative term, used to describe a socially isolated group of damaged individuals drawn together by equally damaged epistemologies. But almost everything which most of the world now takes to be true was initially the thought of a socially isolated group of individuals, who were alone precisely because their epistemology was damaged. And this means that the hidden belief of almost every human being in the world is that a psychically broken understanding of reality contains the most truth.If there is no private language (Wittgenstein), then perhaps there is no truly private thought—which means that for a thought to survive, it needs to latch on to something outside it. The idea needs to start a family, or a cult.

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Miroslav Griško

Miroslav Griško is a writer and philosopher in Ljubljana. He is the author of Eshatološka vojna (Eschatological War), published by KUD Apokalipsa (2022) and in electronic edition by Društvo Galerija Boks (2023).

Maks Valenčič

Maks Valenčič is a theorist, writer, and editor. His philosophical project, Psychotic Accelerationism, attempts to formalize accelerationist theory within the psychotic register, which he understands as an engine of acceleration. He is also a researcher at The New Centre for Research & Practice, an editor of Šum: Journal for Contemporary Art and Theory-Fiction, and the host of the Tehnologos podcast. His writing is available on his Substack, Psychotic Savoir, where he charts the implications of contemporary subjectivity through a psychotic lens.