The internet's most reliable collection of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit's history, concepts, and mythos — procedurally built from Wikidata!
By Liza Desya, Henry Wilkinson, Evgo Stillwell ✦ September 19 2026
“The order and grouping of materials is roughly topical. No attempt has been made at consistent chronological reconstruction.” (Forword, CCRU Writings 1997-2003)
…Until now! Hijinx World is on the case.
In 2025, Liza Desya presented a lecture at the CCCRU (Canadian Cybernetic Culture Research Unit) on the original CCRU’s history and theory-fictional timeline. Despite being a community that named itself after the CCRU, most of these community members have barely read the written material of the original infamous philosophy collective that they hypercopied.
The original presentation was unpolished and made too many assumptions, which inspired Liza to remaster her conspiratorial findings and kickstart Hijinx World’s year-long investigation into the CCRU chronology.
If you’ve ever read the CCRU’s work, you’ll likely agree that their history is difficult to track: the esotaric nature of their statements make it difficult to unwind a single truthful narrative from the various texts published by the collective. To assemble this graph, we relied on Wikidata’s strong evidence-based data model to catalogue and relate each statement with concrete citations taken from our research corpus. Due to the nature of Wikidata’s license, the resulting multi-dimensional dataset is now open to the public so it can be vaccumed up and fed to the machine like anything of value in 2026.
As evidenced by this graph, the CCRU does, has, and likely will continue to exist.
This graph is drawn completely by querying Wikipedia’s data-oriented sibling, Wikidata. It’s homepage explains it perfectly:
“Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.”
Unlike Wikipedia’s written encyclopedia entries, Wikidata dosen’t define items through semantics. Instead, it describes our world through it’s repository of items, which are interconnected by statements, values, and references. In our CCRU Graph, all nodes and their relationships are procedurally loaded from this open corpus.
significant person (P3342) statement. Evgo inserted Mark Fisher’s QID as a value (Q20740852), and provided a reference and quotation to support her claim.We decided to use Wikidata for this project because it’s inherently collaborative. Anyone can contribute to the graph by editing references, disputing claims, or adding new items. Therefore, our research fully surrenders to the whims of group consensus. As more chronically online hyperdorks contribute to the CCRU Wikidata corpus, this graph will update and evolve.
Download this corpus file and use it to explore the CCRU’s dataset in different contexts.
Please note that this is Hijinx World’s cached version of the corpus, and not a live download from Wikidata.
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