Imported term, local mutation
Hypersigil is not a JQD coinage. Grant Morrison's “POP MAGIC!” describes the hypersigil/supersigil as an expansion of the sigil beyond a static image into characterization, drama and plot. Morrison, “POP MAGIC!” ↗
The underlying modern sigil tradition is strongly associated with artist-occultist Austin Osman Spare, whose work compressed desire into personalized symbolic forms. Quantum Entendre's own embedded reference apparatus names Spare's The Book of Pleasure “particularly [for] the sigil methods.”
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The JQD phrase is more specific: “hierogrammatical hypersigils” made from word-shapes and presented as things intended to “GIVE YOU ENERGY.” The desired interaction is not scholarly interpretation but swish, roll, whiff, use. The sigil is therefore pulled toward typography, synesthesia and recipient activation.
Later sigil language
Sigils recur in A FRAMED SCREAM, PILFERED SIGILS, Actual Attack Documentation, Sevened, I Didn't Say Anything and Quantum Entendre. They do not always mean occult magic. Sometimes “sigil” simply means a mark carrying identity, authority or residue. The wiki therefore distinguishes historical occult provenance from the corpus's broader mark/symbol vocabulary.
Why it matters
The hypersigil supplies a particularly clean bridge between occult reference and the larger practice: a work of art is imagined not merely to represent an intention but to operate through duration and behavior. That rhymes strongly with Anticipatory Archive, Naming as Instantiation and the repeated desire to make a document produce something outside itself.