Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex. By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours, human security is lurching into crisis. Deregulation and the state arms-race each other into cyberspace. Emergent Planetary Commercium trashes the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Continental System, the Second and Third Reich, and the Soviet International, cranking-up world disorder through compressing phases.
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The body count climbs through a series of globewars. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. ] The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. It was first published in Abstract Culture 1 (first swarm) (Coventry: Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU 1,1997) Meltdown This essay was first presented at Virtual Futures, Warwick University, May 1994. For those interested in Land’s fiction, the Lovecraftian story Phyl-Undhu is a good starting point.
Those interested in further reading should check out Fanged Noumena, The Thirst for Annihilation,, and. The final section contains essays by other writers analyzing Land and his work. In the 1992 piece Circuitries we find a fully-formulated version of virtually all his later concerns: the mix of techno-capital, AI, and Darwin (“The circuits get hotter and denser as economics, scientific methodology, neo-evolutionary theory, and AI come together”), antihumanist glee at the upcoming singularity (“it is utterly superstitious to imagine that the human dominion of terrestrial culture is still marked out in centuries”), and occasional pot-shots at the left (“one sees the decaying Hegelian socialist heritage clinging with increasing desperation to the theological sentimentalities of praxis, reification, alienation, ethics, autonomy, and other such mythemes of human creative sovereignty”). Despite the difference in style, there is a continuity of ideas in Land’s work.
Reading his later work on capitalism, AI, and evolution will help you break through the opaque style of his academic writing. The philosophy section contains the most challenging material. Hopefully by the time you reach the end, these puzzle pieces will have formed a coherent whole in your mind. The process of categorization is rarely clean each essay extends its tendrils across disciplines and topics. I have attempted to organize the pieces into four broad categories: Capital and AI, Evolution, Philosophy, and Neoreaction. That includes everything from early articles in academic journals to posts on obscure blogs. The aim of this collection is to sample Land’s best writing while also covering his entire career and range of interests: from the feminist guerrillas of Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest to his de Maistreian take on evolution in Hell-Baked. In the early 2000s he moved to Shanghai, where he currently resides. During his time there he published a book on Bataille and many academic articles he also co-founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), a divisive presence in the philosophy department. Between 19 he was a lecturer at Warwick University. Introduction Nick Land is a British philosopher. Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of IncestĪrt as Insurrection: the Question of Aesthetics in Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche 124 The Thirst for Annihilation (Excerpt) A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism
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