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

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Authority instantiates itself as linear instruction pathways, genetic baboonery, scriptures, traditions, rituals, and gerontocratic hierarchies, resonant with the dominator ur-myth that the nature of reality has already been decided.

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The Afrofuturist thinker Kodwo Eshun asked ‘is Nick Land the most important British Philosopher of the last 20 years? Foucault delineates the contours of power as a strategy without a subject: ROM locking learning in a box. The guides to this unknown land are the pet poets of the philosophers: Arthur Rimbaud and Georg Trakl — the Germanic Rimbaud. Land presses the first fork, the dynamical sublime, against reason, When that appears exhausted, he backtracks and tries the path of the mathematical sublime.Here, Land repeats an old habit of western romanticism in a fresh language, but with the same problems.

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The thing is, Lacan isn’t really a structuralist or post-structuralist (not that that’s a bad thing--’some of my best friends’, etc), which everyone should know by now, and there is much to learn from his system about the false address of assumed truth. Capital propagates virally in so far as money communicates addiction, replicating itself through host organisms whose boundaries it breaches. Yet the glory and also the indignity of philosophy is to have sought the end of knowing, and no more. What if once again it depended on extracting a surplus, this time of information, from a subordinate class, the hacker class? The meltdown of metropolitan education systems in the near future is accompanied by a quasi-punctual bottom-up takeover of academic institutions, precipitating their mutation into amnesiac cataspace-exploration zones and bases manufacturing cyberian soft-weaponry.Shuja Haider notes, "His sequence of essays setting out its principles have become the foundation of the NRx canon. Like Rimbaud before him, Land left the old world and headed east, although in Land’s case for gun-running only in rhetorical weapons. KataςoniX" is an invocatory text intended to be read aloud that was written for a multimedia presentation by ***Collapse and Orphan Drift at Virtual Futures '96, which was presented at the University of Warwick. On the contrary, Land also focuses on the history of the concept of genius as an "a contingent, impersonal creative force" according to Mackay and Brassier, a theme which reappears in the aforementioned essays; [21] McKenzie Wark characterizes this essay as focusing on the appearance of " a priori forms as constants for novel experiences" in Land's topics. Economic forces and world trends of incalculable consequence ate condensed, illuminated and reflected among its towers.