Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 (Urbanomic/Sequence Press)

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That, then as now, seems to me the left fork to accelerationism, whatever other problems such a concept may have. Distinctions between theory and practice, culture and economy, science and technics, are useless after this point. Like Rimbaud before him, Land left the old world and headed east, although in Land’s case for gun-running only in rhetorical weapons. We are a minuscule sample of agonized matter, comprising genetic survival monsters, fished from a cosmic ocean of vile mutants, by a pitiless killing machine of infinite appetite. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads.

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Land disputes that the NRX is a "movement", and defines the alt-right as populist and partly anti-capitalist, and therefore distinct from the NRx. You can read this before Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007 PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. This is not only a matter of the bloody grinding mills of selection, either, but also of the innumerable mutational abominations thrown up by the madness of chance, as it pursues its directionless path to some negligible preservable trait, and then — still further — of the unavowable horrors that ‘fitness’ (or sheer survival) itself predominantly entails. Accelerationism: How a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in | Philosophy | the Guardian". Some of its ideas later receive fuller treatment in Anna Greenspan’s most stimulating Shanghai Future (Oxford, 2014).When I contacted Land about the republication of his works, he did not protest, but had nothing to add: It's another life; I have nothing to say about it—I don’t even remember writing half of those things … I don't want to get into retrospectively condemning my ancient work—I think it's best to gently back off. Philosophy has an affinity with despotism, due to its predilection for Platonic-fascist top-down solutions that always screw up viciously.

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This is why cybernetics is inextricable from exploration, having no integrity transcending that of an uncomprehended circuit within which it is embedded, an outside in which it must swim. What if once again it depended on extracting a surplus, this time of information, from a subordinate class, the hacker class? This is free download Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007 by Nick Land complete book soft copy. Macrobacterial assemblages collapse generational hierarchies of reproductive wisdom into lateral networks of replicator experimentation. If one is to gain some purchase on the gloomy cathedral of our history, along with a little fresh air, it is important to begin with the sublime rather than aesthetic contemplation in general, and to read the sublime as generative rather than revelatory in its relation to reason.But Land is allergic to both the old nationalist but also the old socialist arguments for the sharing of resources of the demos. Hyperstitions are ideas that, once "downloaded" into the cultural mainframe, engender apocalyptic positive feedback cycles. Long-range runaway processes are self-designing, but only in such a way that the self is perpetuated as something redesigned.