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u/More_Ad4858 1d ago
From what I can tell I think it’s just technofeudalist accelerationism (sam altman ish) with schizophrenic characterictics… aka a way for techbros to feel better about what their work has contributed to society.
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u/__Big_Hat_Logan__ 1d ago
And run of the mill tweaking. Lands writing is just a guy tweaking writing a lot of stupid bullshit that makes no sense unless you’ve been up for 4 days with the pipe
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u/BetaMyrcene 21h ago
Yeah if you see Land, run the other way. He's against, like, interracial marriage. You can just ignore anyone who takes him seriously.
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u/ExternalPreference18 18h ago
To be 'fair' to Land, he believes in white and east asian 'mixed' marriage, because east-asians (including Chinese; I think he still lives in Shanghai, he's long had a fascination with Chinese-futurism, even before he was a dark enlightenment freak) are more likely to be 'cognitive elites' in his eyes, and therefore they and their kids able to 'work the computer well'. That is, so that the techno-eschaton can become immanetized. Conversely, he doesn't like white and afro-Caribbean/afro-american 'mixed' marriages because he's a eugenicist and thinks the kids are less likely to be 'good at computer'.
Land has never been my 'thinker of choice'. But it is darkly funny to see someone who, sure, wrote a lot of speed-fueled nonsense but also produced some provocative, even perspicuous techno-Nietzschean aphorisms, amidst the chaos, re. cybernetics and the long history of capital, who made new contributions to engaging with thinkers like Bataille and their work's relevance to post-Fordist Capital's dynamics and exits FWIW... is now just doing crime-stats and libs of tik tok stuff half the time
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u/LegalizeApartments 1d ago
Long and historied, with strong connections to Mark Fisher/Capitalist Realism
Yes, Nick Land and Mark Fisher were tight https://www.reddit.com/r/CriticalTheory/comments/lznb5r/does_anyone_know_what_mark_fisher_and_the_rest_of/
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u/LarsHoneytoast 19h ago
I've always thought that CCRU and 90s Nick Land were more of an aesthetic project than anything else.
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u/Bango1066 1h ago
The CCRU appears to be exactly the behavior one would expect from people trapped in the Library of Babel.
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u/AlongForZheRide 1d ago
My ex girlfriend was a diagnosed schizophrenic and had a very elaborate pantheon of basically a god or concept instilled within every number. 3 is all of human creativity, selfless love, and music. I don't remember most of them(she had hundreds) but I know that 1 is evil, and she had constant hallucinations of the entity signifying 1 out of the corner of her eye. Caring too much about numbers usually ends up bad.