Nick Land’s writings inhabit a disordered anarchitecture, a space traversed by rat and wolf-vectors, conjuring a schizophrenic metaphysics. Advanced technologies invoke ancient entities; the human voice disintegrates into the howl of cosmic trauma; civilization hurtles towards an artificial death. Sinister musical subcultures are allied with morbid cults, rouge AIs are pursued into labyrinthine crypts by Turing cops, and Europe mushrooms into a paranoia laboratory in a global cyberpositive circuit that reaches infinite density in the year 2012, flipping modernity over into whatever has been piloting it from the far side of the approaching singularity.
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Land concludes that nothing in stratoanalysis prohibits the pursuit of desire beyond a point incompatible with the imperatives of self-maintenance: DNA, species, civilizations, galaxies: all temporary obstacles are dispensable coagulants inhibiting death’s unwinding.
(Robin Mackay and Ray Brassier in the editor’s introduction to “Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007”)
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Speculative Realism playlist, posted mostly for my own reference.
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Ray Brassier - Politics of Accelerationism
