Kant was a consummate saint, a cheerful man. He was not a stoic, but rather, faithful to his Christian heritage, a voluptuary of defeat. —Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987 – 2007 It is thus amongst the violent ones … Continue reading
Although the adventure of inexistence only begins in Hell there is no fear, only awe and burning werewolf thirst for the voyage. —Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation I believe that the secret of literature lies here, and that a … Continue reading
Pessimism, or the philosophy of desire, has a marked allergy to academic encompassment. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Freud all wrote the vast bulk of their works from a space inaccessible to the sweaty clutches of state pedagogy, as, of course, does … Continue reading
“Cyberrevolution. In the near future the replicants – having escaped from the off-planet exile of private madness – emerge from their camouflage to overthrow the human security system. Deadly orphans from beyond reproduction, they are intelligent weaponry of machinic desire … Continue reading
In William Gibson’s Neuromancer we see an agon between the various forces that would resist and stop the emergence of a vastly superior Artificial Intelligence vs. those who would enter into a new set of commitments to liberate it from … Continue reading
Anastrophic modernism tells us that we have only discounted the perpetuation of the modernist avant-garde because we have refused to accept the possibility of its inhumanity. —Amy Ireland, The Poememenon: Form as Occult Technology Theory-fiction or philo-fiction as it is … Continue reading
In a post-truth world fiction, not truth has become the new force working its magic to invade our lives with strange relations. In such a world the power to erase history is vital, dismantling the very notion of the … Continue reading
Like the creatures of Jurassic Park, bitcoin is the project of a possibly mad scientist that has escaped from the lab. Like T’Rain, bitcoin is now overflowing its “banks” and is about to flood the streets of your world. Perhaps … Continue reading
…at the heart of bitcoin is a process that combines the irreversible passage of time with the exponential advance of technology through Moore’s Law: the ever increasing number of cycles per second of computation. —George Gilder By becoming time, … Continue reading
Interesting interview with philosopher Nick Land – Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital: Justin Murphy: So the way you see it is that, perhaps, for contingent, historical, institutional reasons, it’s in Europe that something which human civilization, up until then had tried … Continue reading
So we have now artificial absolute time for the first time ever in human history. And this therefore is scrambling these narratives it’s scrambling our sense of pre and post, what is the actual set of successions in the most … Continue reading
A great many of Nick Land’s critics have never actually read his early work or his essays collected in Fanged Noumena, and even if they gave it a cursory overlook it was usually under the strict economy of a leprous … Continue reading
Nick Land: Machinic Desire (Excerpts): Anti-Oedipus is less a philosophy book than an engineering manual; a package of software implements for hacking into the machinic unconscious, opening invasion channels. Along one axis of its emergence, virtual materialism names an ultra-hard … Continue reading
Both Nick Land and Mark Fisher have responses to Alain Badiou’s recent book, Our Wound is Not So Recent: Thinking the Paris Killings, and are available for online/offline reading at Urbanomic’s site. Nick Land: Sore Losers Nick Land’s last paragraph … Continue reading
With the libidinal reformulation of being as composition ‘one acquires degrees of being, one loses that which has being’. – Nick Land, A Thirst for Annihilation Tracing Nietzsche’s libidinal energetics Nick Land would see four major thrusts: 1) a concerted … Continue reading
Arthur Kroker: Accelerationist Capitalization A friend mentioned to me that Kroker was for the Left what Nick Land is for the neo-reaction, the hyperstitional mythographer of capitalization as an alien entity gathering steam year by year through acceleration of the … Continue reading
Read an interesting experiment in programing using Kurt Gödel’s number theories: (Norman H. Cohen. Gödel numbers: A new approach to structured programming. SIGPLAN Notices 15, No. 4 (April 1980), pp. 70-74; download pdf at bottom part of page): My reason … Continue reading
“Clinical schizophrenics are POWs from the future. […] Life is being phased-out into something new, and if we think this can be stopped we are even more stupid than we seem.” …..– Nick Land, Fanged Noumena “Help is here, but … Continue reading
In his essay Base Materialism and Gnosticism Georges Bataille will give a rather different reading of our ancient spiritual systems: “In practice, it is possible to see as a leitmotiv of Gnosticism the conception of matter as an active … Continue reading
I have not once had the least idea who or what I am, But that before all my arrogant poems the real Me stands yet untouch’d, untold, altogether unreach’d, Withdrawn far, mocking me with mock-congratulatory signs and bows, With peals … Continue reading
Abstract literature writes in clues, with clue words, but without hope. …….– Nick Land, Abstract Manifesto “Nothing was to have taken place. Less, even, than usual, or than standard procedure recommended. That was clear.”1 So begins Nick Land’s new … Continue reading
Just noticed Nick Land’s new foray on Amazon.com Chasm: Eighty-Nine Manifesto for an Abstract Literature. Haven’t read it as of yet, just thought it worthy of a note for those who delve into his vision. I should have something … Continue reading
We are so deeply mired in our philosophies as to have evolved nothing better than a sordid version of the void: nothingness. – Emile Cioran Bataille seems to me far less an intellectual predicament than a sexual and religious one… … Continue reading
Nick Land on Urban Future has an interesting article describing the first robotic article written in Chinese that mimics human reporting better than humans; yet, as in all things it is not exactly what you think it is. Quoting a … Continue reading
I’ll record three quotes from Nick Land, William S. Burroughs, and Ervin Laszlo. The first from Nick Land’s Templexity: Disordered Loops through Shanghai Time: …time-travel capability allows for an open-ended revision of the past, and consequently of everything that follows … Continue reading
There’s only really been one question, to be honest, that has guided everything I’ve been interested in for the last twenty years, which is: the teleological identity of capitalism and artificial intelligence. – Nick Land The notion of capitalism as … Continue reading
In a recent post Jehu of The Real Movement would ask in reference to a comment I made: “Marx’s accelerationism is the acceleration of accumulated capital” So, does this mean Nick Land is a Marxist? I commented to this as … Continue reading
Rereading Escape Velocities on e-flux journal by Alex Williams I came across his critique of Nick Land and his accelerationist philosophy of the 90’s this little tidbit: Land’s rabidly nihilistic vision of global capitalist acceleration made sense in the fervid … Continue reading
A central and insistent tenet of Schopenhauer’s philosophy is that intellect, personality, and consciousness are extremely superficial and derivative characteristics of complex nervous-systems, and are thus radically untypical of the nature of the cosmos, which is driven by impersonal and … Continue reading
Kant’s critical philosophy is the most elaborate fit of panic in the history of the Earth! – Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation Nick Land unlike Badiou or Zizek will tell us that it is to Schopenhauer that we should … Continue reading
Reading Nick Land’s blog Outside In is a nose-dive into the neoreactionary slipstream, an accelerating looper fest for the post-millennial blues. Yet, his other blog Urban Future (2.1) offers us the dark contours of his visionary timescapes. Sometimes I get … Continue reading
Utter nullity. In the words of the ancient sages of ruined Ashenzohn, it was the endlessness that ends in itself. Dark silence beyond sleep and time, from whose oceanic immensities some bedraggled speck of attention – pulled out, and turned … Continue reading
The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts 