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A Nick Land Reader: Selected Writings
Contents
Introduction 5
I Capital and AI 6
Meltdown 7
Machinic Desire 18
A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism 33
The Atomization Trap 38
Monkey Business 43
Romantic Delusion 46
Science 48
Will-to-Think 50
Against Orthogonality 54
II Evolution 56
Hell-Baked 57
What is Intelligence? 59
IQ Shredders 61
The Monkey Trap 63
Reality Rules 67
War in Heaven 71
War in Heaven II 74
Utilitarianism is Useless 76
III Philosophy 77
Circuitries 78
Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest 96
Shamanic Nietzsche 110
Art as Insurrection: the Question of Aesthetics in Kant, Schopen-
hauer, and Nietzsche 124
The Thirst for Annihilation (Excerpt) 141
Critique of Transcendental Miserablism 146
IV Neoreaction 149
The Problem of Democracy 150
Re-Accelerationism 153
Meta-Neocameralism 156
The Dark Enlightenment 163
V Other 237
The Cult of Gnon 238
Abstract Horror 240
On the Exterminator 250
VI On Land 255
Terminator vs. Avatar: Notes on Accelerationism 256
Nick Land — An Experiment in Inhumanism 264
Introduction 5
I Capital and AI 6
Meltdown 7
Machinic Desire 18
A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism 33
The Atomization Trap 38
Monkey Business 43
Romantic Delusion 46
Science 48
Will-to-Think 50
Against Orthogonality 54
II Evolution 56
Hell-Baked 57
What is Intelligence? 59
IQ Shredders 61
The Monkey Trap 63
Reality Rules 67
War in Heaven 71
War in Heaven II 74
Utilitarianism is Useless 76
III Philosophy 77
Circuitries 78
Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest 96
Shamanic Nietzsche 110
Art as Insurrection: the Question of Aesthetics in Kant, Schopen-
hauer, and Nietzsche 124
The Thirst for Annihilation (Excerpt) 141
Critique of Transcendental Miserablism 146
IV Neoreaction 149
The Problem of Democracy 150
Re-Accelerationism 153
Meta-Neocameralism 156
The Dark Enlightenment 163
V Other 237
The Cult of Gnon 238
Abstract Horror 240
On the Exterminator 250
VI On Land 255
Terminator vs. Avatar: Notes on Accelerationism 256
Nick Land — An Experiment in Inhumanism 264
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About the author
Nick Land
46 books778 followersLand was a lecturer in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick from 1987 until his resignation in 1998.
At Warwick, he and Sadie Plant co-founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), an interdisciplinary research group described by philosopher Graham Harman as "a diverse group of thinkers who experimented in conceptual production by welding together a wide variety of sources: futurism, technoscience, philosophy, mysticism, numerology, complexity theory, and science fiction, among others".
During his time at Warwick, Land participated in Virtual Futures, a series of cyber-culture conferences. Virtual Futures 96 was advertised as “an anti-disciplinary event” and “a conference in the post-humanities”. One session involved Nick Land “lying on the ground, croaking into a mic”, recalls Robin Mackay, while Mackay played jungle records in the background."
In 1992, he published The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism. Land published an abundance of shorter texts, many in the 1990s during his time with the CCRU. The majority of these articles were compiled in the retrospective collection Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, published in 2011.
Land taught at the New Centre for Research & Practice until March 2017,
One of Land's celebrated concepts is "hyperstition," a portmanteau of "superstition" and "hyper" that describes the action of successful ideas in the arena of culture. Hyperstitions are ideas that, once "downloaded" into the cultural mainframe, engender apocalyptic positive feedback cycles. Hyperstitions – by their very existence as ideas – function causally to bring about their own reality. Nick Land describes hyperstition as "the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies".
At Warwick, he and Sadie Plant co-founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), an interdisciplinary research group described by philosopher Graham Harman as "a diverse group of thinkers who experimented in conceptual production by welding together a wide variety of sources: futurism, technoscience, philosophy, mysticism, numerology, complexity theory, and science fiction, among others".
During his time at Warwick, Land participated in Virtual Futures, a series of cyber-culture conferences. Virtual Futures 96 was advertised as “an anti-disciplinary event” and “a conference in the post-humanities”. One session involved Nick Land “lying on the ground, croaking into a mic”, recalls Robin Mackay, while Mackay played jungle records in the background."
In 1992, he published The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism. Land published an abundance of shorter texts, many in the 1990s during his time with the CCRU. The majority of these articles were compiled in the retrospective collection Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, published in 2011.
Land taught at the New Centre for Research & Practice until March 2017,
One of Land's celebrated concepts is "hyperstition," a portmanteau of "superstition" and "hyper" that describes the action of successful ideas in the arena of culture. Hyperstitions are ideas that, once "downloaded" into the cultural mainframe, engender apocalyptic positive feedback cycles. Hyperstitions – by their very existence as ideas – function causally to bring about their own reality. Nick Land describes hyperstition as "the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies".
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September 12, 2018
Well put together anthology that collects Nick's pre + post Dark Enlightenment writings. Is split into 4(?) diff sections AI + Cap, Philosophy, Neoreaction, Horror
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